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Thursday, August 09 2001

Gary Groth : "It was dangerous agitprop."

God, help us. Someone has given Gary Groth a bigger soapbox... If you think the Internet defines hyperbolic vitriol as an artform, you haven't seen anything until you've read this guy. Frankly, most of the arguments in this debate strike me as spurious. This is not about the paperness (or lack thereof) of the paper -- and we're doomed if it is about animated gifs -- it is about the same issue that has always plagued the comics industry : distribution and, by extension, control. Okay, McCloud stops there long enough to talk about micropayments, but then seems to devolve into goofy arguments about how paper is dead and and and ...and painting has been dead for about six thousand years now, too. This is art school level posturing and just makes everyone involved look like children. It is, rather, an issue of economics : it's cheaper produce words-and-pictures online than it is in print. Further, there is the chance of reaching a larger audience in the process. That is, swag notwithstanding, the entirety of the Internet revolution. The degree to which the art form you practice suffers in the transition is just the price you pay. Trust me when I say you don't want to see comix artists doing work about the "materiality" of the Internet. see also : McCloud in Stable Condition Following Review, Groth Still at Large

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I think that the Talking Moose is starting to sound like it's gotten punch drunk

on being (not without merit) the flavour of the week. Aside from the fact that this argument, at worst, just doesn't make any sense or, at best, is simply juvenile -- designers need to adapt, I think -- it is eerily reminiscent of equally shrill claims made in 1996. Designers were also said to be "irrelevant" back then and so much the better because everybody would be liberated by the promise of self-publishing on the web. Sure; so long and thanks for all the <blink /> tags, dude. Having written and designed (no less) my fair share of content management widgets and templating systems I will concede that there often real benefit in being able to hacks things, but that's a much larger issue than writing for the web. The real reason is that CMS' are, past a certain point, just another one (okay, maybe three or four) size fits all lock-in. Only this time with a web-interface. And the only way to get your work done is by tweaking the fucking tool. Hello? Wakey wakey.

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RISKS : E-Divorce banned in Singapore

"...the Syariah Court and the Registry of Muslim Marriages are "unanimous in their view that divorce through SMS is unacceptable..."

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O'Reillynet : An Introduction to XML Digital Signatures

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N.Y. Times : The Art World Starts to Pay Attention to Video Games

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is caterwaul

| source : web1913 | Caterwaul \Cat"er*waul\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Caterwauled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Caterwauling}.] [Cat + waul, wawl, to cry as a cat.] To cry as cats in rutting time; to make a harsh, offensive noise. --Coleridge. | source : web1913 | Caterwaul \Cat"er*waul\, n. A caterwauling. | source : wn | caterwaul n : the yowling sound made by a cat in heat v : utter shrieks, as of cats [syn: {yowl}]

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