At 5:10 PM -0800 3/8/00, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
>At 7:53 PM -0500 on 3/8/00, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
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>> I think it's time to take my name off the editorial board.
>
>Before anyone thrashes me too soundly for this, Indian journalist Rishab
>Ayer Ghosh(sp?) a fairly active cypherpunk contributor back then, was one
>of the original editors, and asked me to help out, about 4 years ago or so.
>
>In the first two months I edited Sameer's article on remailer networks
>(tres irnonic, considering their legal solution to defamation), and Tatsuo
>Tanaka's article on the transnationality of digital cash, which I didn't
>agree with in results, but at least he had a clue about what the technology
>got us.
>
>Then, not much else, after that. :-).
>
>Rishab isn't there anymore, it's moved from Denmark to Chicago, and,
>frankly, who needs, heh, peer review ;-), when you have the web, right?
I was asked to have some role in "First Monday." I don't even recall who
asked me, or what they proposed. Maybe it was this same kind of "editorial
board" nonsense...I truly don't remember, and I have no interest in
searching my e-mail archives from several years ago to jog my memory.
What I _do_ remember is that, even then, it seemed pointless. Why have a
multi-week or multi-month delay in publishing something so that digerati
wannabees could massage the text?
I think Rishab Ghosh was involved...perhaps he was the one who asked me to
be involved. No slur intended against this Ghosh person, but he had not
been a major contributor of ideas to the lists I was on, despite being
subscribed to them, so I didn' t think he was the best representative of
"First Monday."
It sounded pretentious then, and it still sounds pretentious. Though, to be
honest, I forgot about it soon after telling them I wasn't interested, and
I have not thought about it since. I had no idea it was still being
"cyber-published."
Sounds like the Lit Crit community has taken it over, which was
predictable. Why shouldn't the specialist in flying Sausserians be able to
milk the Revolution? They did in 1789 and 1917, if not the Real Revolution
in 1776. Fakery recapitulates sincerity.
>Eric Raymond would probably agree, himself, now that his Cathedral and the
>Bazaar(sp?) got him tens of million in free VAUnix stock...
>
And he's probably forgotten the verdict in the First Internet Witch Trial.
--Tim May
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Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
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