Matthew Smith on Fri, 7 Mar 97 16:35 MET |
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Re: nettime: Flash!! WIRED is Looking for an Ideology!! |
wow ive just been reading all these mails about fame, prosperity, ideology & ownership of messages on mailing lists, and a strange thought came over me... why is so hard for many ppl 2 grasp the net as something -different- than magazined or telefones or tvs or radios? i find it strange that everything has 2 be kept in a specific form - "publish" on this list, "talk" on that list, or just spam in some newsgroups. what makes nettime interesting in its own special way is the fact that these rules r broken all the time. like Mr. Hudson said earlier on, nobody on this list runs the messages through a spell checker or cares specially 4 grammatical mistakes. so why dont we just forget about splitting a list that actually worx well as it is, that lives (IMHO) from the diversity of its participants, and concentrate on "important" things...;) about that WIRED stuff: i have the feeling that real reason 4 its failure in going "public" (that phrase really pisses me off, there is nothing public about selling shares in a more or less closed market), lies in the fact that the ppl interested in WIRED r mostly middle class, white, male intellectuals that dont spend so much money on shares. on the other side, why should any company or bank invest in shares of a (mainly)magazine that is has, by now (IMHO) seen its best days. at least here in europe ppl have started 2 lose interest in californian utopia, they r 2 buzy with their own - at last:-D (post this where ever u want, copy it on what u want, print it even in good ole gutenberg.format, if u feel like it - i dont care so much about OWNERSHIP - u can even have my cadillac below;) лллллллллл\ /ллл/ лллIллллл\ \ ______ /л / I \ \ ______/ /л / ___I______/__\____________________/ / / -o \ / / I / ### ----I------------------------firstfloor.org \ ##### I \ ### I _________________ \ / ___/____/**** * ****\____________________\_/ **** **** ************* _____________*********________________________ -- * distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission * <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, * collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets * more info: majordomo@is.in-berlin.de and "info nettime" in the msg body * URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@is.in-berlin.de