tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27325099.post115257915284915991..comments2023-07-14T04:28:49.111-06:00Comments on Now What: Lightness & Dark: The Beacon of the Online JournalLance Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13659209766706247259noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27325099.post-1152765814119270882006-07-12T22:43:00.000-06:002006-07-12T22:43:00.000-06:00Thanks, Laird. I definitely agree that the Web is...Thanks, Laird. I definitely agree that the Web is "a lot less world-wide than we'd like it to be." And I understand that people with dialups have a much tougher time accessing multimedia sites. (Maybe give up your subscriptions to The New Yorker & Readers Digest & switch to high-speed Internet. :-)) But the Web is still in its infancy. Assuming the inhuman race continues to survive (which I don't), I believe we should be forward thinking and adhere to our aesthetic visions (as Lidia has implied). <BR/><BR/>As more and more people come to rely on the Internet as an essential resource of information (including news), hub of communication & community, the more global it will become. I also suspect dial-ups will be dinasaurs in the not too distant future. Naturally, it's not all that likely that even 1/1000 of the millions of impoverished people on this globe will be able to access the Web with regularity, if at all. That's a sad fact of life on this planet. Even sadder is hunger, war and persecution. <BR/><BR/>The greatest threats to the evolution of the Internet (and therefore of experimental multimedia projects published by means of the Internet) are totalitarian control and price gauging by monopolies. (See the link for Save the Internet link). Every publisher and blogger should be including that banner/link in her/his site.Carol Novackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05043226140974797775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27325099.post-1152653689584353032006-07-11T15:34:00.000-06:002006-07-11T15:34:00.000-06:00amen.the digital / electronic / morphic / space of...amen.<BR/><BR/>the digital / electronic / morphic / space of online journals and xines is no threat to me or innovative writing.<BR/><BR/>it is the emergent contemporary mode of production, and must be recognized as such by those who are able to "see" and "grab" the present.blondehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11071230100404794724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27325099.post-1152648948125335732006-07-11T14:15:00.000-06:002006-07-11T14:15:00.000-06:00Thanks for this, Carol and for Mad Hatters' Review...Thanks for this, Carol and for Mad Hatters' Review -- which is a terrific journal.<BR/><BR/>re: "What I'm saying bottom line is that the independent, alternative presses (like those listed here) are absolutely essential and fabulous, but so are journals, particularly online journals capable of providing audios and visuals to readers and listeners who can't afford subscriptions to more than a handful of print magazines, with or without visuals and cds/dvds (eg, Rattapallax)."<BR/><BR/>I absolutely agree with the first part of the sentence and mostly agree with the second (I'm just a teensy bit suspicious of the premise that wired folks turned on to outstream lit -- laptop, cellphone, punch card at the corner coffee shop, etc. -- can't "afford" to get hold of enough print material to satisfy that itch. Perhaps we are talking about two different, but related itches -- print and web, no?). But this does make me think about the accesibility question. Sure hits can come in from multiple points on the planet, but there are still those enormous black swaths on the glowing map of the can get on lines and the can'ts (could anyone point me to a recent map -- I saw one several years ago when I was working a United Nations talkshop on the e-portion of globalization: philanthropists kept wanting to send computers to villages that lacked reliable electricity, water and telecommunications, etc.). And I'm not even talking about high-speed access that facilitates the marvelous kinds of things that Mad Hatters and other venues like it deliver. My earthlink service is currently only giving me dial-up and the good stuff works really poorly on dialup, which is what a ton of people have, if, again, they have anything. Anyway, just a couple of things that crept into my mind. I'm all for what you say, believe me, but I can't not think about how the web, which daily seems to become more and more linked to capital, is a lot less world-wide than we'd like it to be.Laird Hunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18399573491901618698noreply@blogger.com