Comments on: Why I’m not a joiner

By: Will Pollard

Will Pollard — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 16:14:23 +0000

as memory serves there could be some comparison with previous times in London

if you included a logo for the ‘underground and alternative press syndicate europe’ you could cut up any US source and paste it in to a publication

this was for litho, so not very interactive

By: Red Mercury

Red Mercury — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 09:37:07 +0000

Who cares what a bunch of vain, self-regarding propagandists think?

‘Journalists’? Someone who recycles industry, NGO, government and security state press releases and propaganda on a daily basis; kind of like defecation, but smellier.

By: Mike G

Mike G — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:30:51 +0000

Mike Cane is right, fanzines and punk-era xeroxing were the blogs of their day. Plus, remember, this is England where they practically had revolution over putting in electronic typesetting. They really did experience the kind of seismic cultural shift OVER minor technology issues that we’re experiencing FROM them.

By: Jeremy Ballenger

Jeremy Ballenger — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 11:01:02 +0000

Damn economics. Living in London, (and having received the update on Witness Contributors from the NUJ), I figure this whole palava can be explained away using good old incentives.

Print media circulation is down (despite their protestations to the contrary), and if bloggers and ‘citizen journalists’ are runnning around just giving news away, how the hell is any self-respecting mainstream media outlet to make a buck?

The bell started ringing for these guys when Reuters were the last to move out of Fleet Street. Guess most of them were at the pub and thought it meant ‘last drinks’.

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By: Mike Cane

Mike Cane — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 00:21:11 +0000

You’ve missed his point. He is absolutely correct using the fanzine model.

Were you aware of online back in 1980-82? Google videotex and you’ll see these same dinos thought *they* would be our online gatekeepers with stuff like NAPLPS.

Look at now.

Websites *do* equal fanzines. (OK, you want it brainier: Samizdat, then!)

By: ashok

ashok — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 17:17:21 +0000

I hate the pettiness of the code they wish to impose, but I do like that they feel threatened by blogging, and consider blogging writing.

I personally feel that there are things I’ve put on my blog that I could easily hand in for a grade in class, or with some tweaking would attempt to publish, stuff like a short essay on Lincoln I have tucked away in my blog. Wish we could get some academics to be more partial to blogging, as opposed to (rightly) feeling it threatening.