nettime A Modest Proposal

2006-06-17 Thread Bruce Sterling
John Battelle, the band manager for the explosively popular boingboing.net, is considering installing a collaborative web filter on his blog Searchblog. Why should nettime find this of any relevance? Well, Nettime is of course a collaborative web filter, but has always done this work by

Re: nettime A Modest Proposal

2006-06-17 Thread Morlock Elloi
Anything a program can filter another program can make unfilterable. The real value of nettime *is* bipedal-based filtering, especially by those not turned into specialised data-processing contraptions. So cheers to all those brain cycles burned to filter nettime (not nettame) and their

Re: nettime A Modest Proposal

2006-06-17 Thread Jon Lebkowsky
On 6/17/06, Bruce Sterling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, this gaudy tech-fix may be a tad too California Ideology for the goofy leftists of nettime, but hey, at least that prospect would give us something exciting to talk about that hasn't been repeatedly chewed for years. Hey, this

nettime Entertainment Nation: The Nation Magazine's culture issue

2006-06-17 Thread Paul D. Miller
This is a remix of an article I have in the current issue of The Nation Magazine. It goes on newstands today/tomorrow Digital Music Revolution by Paul D. Miller his article can be found on the web at: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060703/miller Ten years ago, when we first focused

Re: nettime Cinematic video

2006-06-17 Thread Alan Sondheim
On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the new video 'film,' video or film? Video art has been pushed around and roughed up by a technological revolution throughout its forty-year history. Analog video, rolling through several formats of technological evolution, has been