I look at it a little differently. Activity on 313 has always been mostly proportional to the amount of activity in Detroit -- tracks being released, and of course since 2000 the annual cycle of the festival.
Then there is a general but somewhat variable flow of comments on music-and-people-that-in-some-way-are-influenced-by-something- from-Detroit. For a very long time, nearly a decade, 313 activity has mostly been people who don't live in Detroit. Dluv and other places are where the locals hang. That's fine, I keep track of both and participate more here. 313 continues to be one of the more rewarding non-work lists I'm on. I also think that continuing as an email-only list has gradually resulted in a kind of age-graded participation. Those who came onto the net post-email, then post-phpBB, post-MyTribeFace and soon post-Twitter are in micro-generations that have no direct connection to the Detroit- techno-widely-conceived that has always been the core 313 focus. But I also don't see that this is unusual, nor that a lot can be done about it. And my sense is that 313 will continue for a good long while because there is still a critical mass of list subscribers, enough of the Detroit- related activity we've always talked about, and, aside from occasional waywardness, a not-bad signal-to-noise ratio overall. Conclusion: rumors of the death of 313 are greatly exaggerated. fh PS There's always been a real easy way to gear up a big surge of comments on 313, and that is to start a thread on J--- M----. You first. ----------------- >I don't know about 'over' but perhaps slumbering. I know that I'm >starting way too many threads relative to other people on the list. > >Keep in mind that in the dark days when the 313 list started, people >could subscribe without even having a regular internet connection. I >think a fair percentage of people on the list were using terminals on >University campuses, and hadn't yet bought a home computer or laptop. > >There was no Facebook, Twitter, Message Boards, You Tube, Bit Torrent etc. > >Detroit Techno Artists still lived in Detroit, or sometimes Chicago. >They all had their original wives. I know, some of them still do. > >Perhaps e-mail lists are a vestigial feature of the Internet now. I >have to think there is a whole generation who are on the internet >constantly who don't even know what an e-mail list is, at this point. > When there is a critical mass of active contributors it's still >preferable to me for many reasons too boring to list. > >All you have to do to make it die is unsubscribe. Everyone makes that >choice for themselves. > >On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Odeluga, Ken <[email protected]> wrote: >> Rearrange these words people 'the,' 'scraping,' 'bottom,' 'barrel,' 'the,' >> 'of,' ... >> >> I know I'm not helping much though ;-) >> >> Is 313 over? >> >> Ken >> >> >
