sotto voce:
You know, I have a deep unease about the re-posting of MSNBC articles on nettime, especially in their entirety. I can understand editorial excerpting for the purposes of making a point or presenting information, but to presume that the repetition of such writing on the nettime listserv somehow strengthens our community, I just don’t know.”
“I have spent much time and concentration to arrange certain types of filters for incoming information: applying single-frequency filters like *allow anything from Tapio in and read it*, or *check out most things on nettime* or *talk to certain friends on the phone and ponder what they say to me* and as well, MANUAL filtration techniques like *don’t read the Wall Street Journal* (I made this rule after living some years in the Belly of the Multinational Beast (an engineer for a large oil company) consuming the BUSINESS NEWS of the DAY when I was flying First Class to countries where my own operations were to help get the oil, at whatever the local cost)…
I started writing the preceding to nettime a couple weeks ago, noticing that suddenly almost every posting appearing on the list had been lifted from what I would term mainstream media, I never finished, and have since noticed the continuing string of articles. While, granted, I trust the nettime filter system implicitly, I wonder what has occurred with nettime — has anyone else been affected by this shift? Am I paranoid? Has anything really changed? What is going on? Don’t we have voices? Isn’t silence better? (speaking as a networker who only rarely contributes to the listserv side of nettime, but who more often is in individual communications with many of you). I feel like something has slipped, has been lost, some momentum drained. Does Bill Gates’ invitation to us have anything to do with this?