Carmen Hermosillo on Sun, 17 May 1998 01:39:42 +0200 (MET DST) |
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Re: <nettime> artists vs geeks |
it's happening everywhere. information is being annihilated by bulk. as someone said information wants to be cut and pasted. On Sat, 16 May 1998, John Hopkins wrote: > "You know, I have a deep unease about the re-posting of MSNBC articles on > nettime, especially in their entirety. I can understand editorial > excerpting for the purposes of making a point or presenting information, > but to presume that the repetition of such writing in the nettime listserv > somehow strengthens our community, I don't know." > > "I have spent much time and concentration to arrange certain types of > filers for incoming information (applying single-frequency filters like > *allow anything from Tapio in and read it*, or *check out most things on > nettime* or *talk to certain friends on the phone and ponder what they say > to me* and such MANUAL filtration techniques like *don't read the Wall > Street Journal* (I made this rule after living some years in the Belly of > the Multinational Beast (an engineer for a large oil company) consuming the > BUSINESS NEWS of the DAY when I was flying First Class to countries where > my own operations were to get the oil, at whatever the local cost)... " > > I started writing the preceeding to nettime a couple weeks ago, noticing > that suddenly almost every posting appearing in nettime has been lifted > from what I would term mainstream media, I never finished, and have since > noticed the continuing string of articles. While, granted, I trust the > nettime filter system implicitly, I wonder has occurred with nettime -- has > anyone else been affected by this shift? Am I paranoid? Has anything > really changed? What is going on? Don't we have voices? Isn't silence > better? (speaking as a networker who only rarely contributes to the > listserv side of nettime, but who more often is in individual > communications with many of you). I feel like something has slipped, has > been lost, some momentum drained. Does Bill Gates' invitation to us have > anything to do with this? > > hmmmmm > John > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > John Hopkins, Tech-no-mad artist and educator back > ON THE ROAD, teaching in Tornio, Finland > email: <hopkins@iex.net> > web address: http://members.iex.net/~hopkins/ > POB 12527, Prescott, Arizona, 86304-2527 USA > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ --- # 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@desk.nl and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@desk.nl