As a matter of fact, the Government announced a multi-million dollar national arts site before the 2005 election:
http://list.waikato.ac.nz/pipermail/ada_list/2005-May/000887.html or http://www.aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/list/thread/1116287056 I think they ended up with this: http://www.mch.govt.nz/projects/web/portal.html ("You are a New Zealander wanting to find out more about a contemporary artist and where you might see her work. You're a tourist interested in traditional Māori carving and planning a trip to New Zealand to see this work. You're a student studying James K. Baxter and want to research his life. Where do you start? You will be able to find all this information on a single, easily accessed and easy to navigate site – NZLive.com.") Damian: > in an election year, do you think we could convince some party to > offer sponsorship of artists websites - covering at least hosting > (which would be very, very cheap to implement) and at best web site > development for those without web-knowledgeable friends...? You could persuade one or two parties who are not going to win. There are better things to lobby against, like the ACTA treaty, a conspiracy to outlaw shared culture, or perhaps the universal governmental tendency to restrict migration, which you have railed against in the past. Also, as everyone who has had one knows, websites are a nuisance to look after and people should not be encouraged to have them. Like cars. It's better to join a mailing list, where your rants go directly to the 200 most interested people and are archived in perpetuity on government supported sites. Douglas _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
