On 19/Oct/14 08:53, David Mandl wrote: > It seems clear that the New Yorker is no longer home of the best > fact-checking/copyediting humankind can achieve.
It takes time and energy to impose order on a system. Clearly many many segments of the 'developed world' are manifesting the inevitable decrease in the energy available to maintain their own order. This is not unrelated to decaying bridges, pot-holed roads, a medical system that cannot organize itself to deal with emergencies, problems with ones local cable internet provider, etc etc etc. Those with money can purchase the extra energy by proxy, the rest are left on a downward slide. While I'm sure there are not a few Wall Street types who still read the NY'er, it's 'demise' also evidences a shrinking power base in the wider social system... > When they started a blog as a separate entity from the magazine I heard > writer and editor friends complain about errors all the time. It had very The complexity of web-publishing versus print may have drained the organizations vitality. I just spent two months prepping a small print magazine for a rather simple Wordpress deployment. It was a clear example -- they were perfectly capable of dealing with their print existence, and were doing quite well with that; but the added complexity of a web deployment stretched them to the limits -- simply being organized enough to make sure of file naming conventions as content migrated from print to web was overwhelming for them... > Things are bad all over, as the old saying goes. This is repeated along the slippery slope of Imperial decline... so it goes. jh -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD grounded on a granite batholith twitter: @neoscenes http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
