Dear mod squad > First, nettime isn't shutting down.
phew I was close to going into grieving mode - although I'm very much a lurker and only an occasional poster nettime has always been an intellectual touchstone for me and a welcome bit of brain stimulus in my not very academic and sometimes mindnumbing daily existence. > Moderating is snippets of time scattered across the day, there's nothing > especially heroic or monumental about it. Frankly that's exactly what's heroic about it - it's so much easier to make a grand gesture and so much harder to keep up a daily grind - so I'd like to chime in with the richly deserved chorus of thanks to Ted and Felix. I don't agree with the diagnosis that this patient is 'comatose' - it's still the most thoughtful and honest net-critical platform that I know of even if the shiny novelty has worn off a bit. But these things can be very cyclical - what looks a bit tired today can easily be 'rediscovered' tomorrow and appreciated all the more for its retro integrity. Old media find new uses: vinyl has made a come back and it seems working with chemical film has become the new cool thing to do for media artists. I know we're ageing but the worst thing to do is to try and be down with the kids like some embarrassing uncle. > And there's no images, no video, no memes, no numbers, > stats or ranks, no friends or followers -- in short, there's not much > to like about it. hahahaha! like it lennaart Lennaart van Oldenborgh lenna...@hofilms.co.uk # 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: nett...@kein.org
