speaking of Mills... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGzDEvfP_7Q
Beyond the dance indeed. W. On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Fred Heutte <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>> >>> >> > >
