i've been very busy - with a move and major changes in my job - and
therefore silent through the whole infoseek/futurec.org, but i'm pleased
and amused by the founding of futurec.org - amused in part because, like
the death thread, this is just a familiar theme with variation. Before
Marius' pages, there was (at least) the ftp site that CountZer0, tgitm and
some others set up, and there was the FC/leri bot on #leri. (The ftp site
was crashed in the midst of an FC family squabble, continuing a fine list
tradition of trashing something major every so often. Perhaps the end of
FC/MediaMOO should have been more dramatic to be precisely in the FC
style... =) And, Richard, weren't you and CZ talking about an FC site at
one time as well? Anyway, the meme has made the rounds...
And then i'm offline for a couple of days, and when i come back...shazam!..
futurec.org, on Chris' site. Nothing to it.
Clearly, the pages that Chris and the gang are working on aren't going to
anything like sole claim to FCness. Darren has a page, and so does Arthur.
I expect i'll eventually get a chance to put up my own FC personal
highlights page. Does the "officialness" matter? Who will be looking for
futurec.org? The most interesting reason proposed for bothering - besides
just doing it for the hell of it - was that it could act as a sort of
beacon for those of us who have strayed, should the list have to move. I
like that idea. I also like the idea of chris - who throws fewer tantrums
than some of the rest of us - as the keeper of our beacon.
Anyway... Greg objects to a few folks doing for the rest - but isn't that
always the case? If folks object to the nature of the WWW site that is
built, then the best thing to do seems to be to talk about the problems
they have on the list. A group project is one more way to address the
continuing question of what it is that we're all doing here. The conflicts
that come with these projects - remember the great MOO-IRC feud? - bring
us into close contact with our understanding of Future Culture and future
culture.
So i'm all for it. And bring on the logos - several preferably, and who
cares about choosing. And if someone wants to register other FCish names,
then i would rather it be listmembers than folks selling whatever on the
web. (At least one list i know of has been hassled by a commercial outfit
that thought they could own the list's name, and force them to reliquish
it. Cute, eh? "As legal representative for Future Culture, Inc i must
request that you cease all operations under our registered name..." or
some such...)
oops. late for an online meeting...
-shawn