Re: nettime Fwd: Diaspora* means a brighter future for all of us.

2011-09-29 Thread Jaromil
hi Morlock, On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, Morlock Elloi wrote: The cuteness of interfaces is far from being neutral. Insisting on it is like retaining pacifiers in adulthood. It's hard to talk with that thing in your mouth. on top of a momentum of waving hands in air and pointing fingers here and

Re: nettime Fwd: Diaspora* means a brighter future for all of us.

2011-09-26 Thread John Hopkins
Hei Yosem -- I understand the skepticism, John, but we're the real deal, when it comes to trying to do the opposite of what these corporate, commercial networks do. And we'd be lucky to have you on Nettime join us in our attempt to reinvent the social web. Actually not being sceptical at all

Re: nettime Fwd: Diaspora* means a brighter future for all of us.

2011-09-25 Thread John Hopkins
Ei Rory, I'll just say that I find it by turns incredibly naive, inspiring, irrelevant and hopeful ... sounds like netvertising for IRC ... come to think about it, IRC has always had most of the stuff that any of those phat .com networks got. jh