Chris said:
> If you want to help out, please let me know,
> as I will (this weekend) be creating a special group just for
maintaining
> the futurec webpages. I'll be getting in touch with those who
have already
> done such great work (taylor and especially darren) so far in
promoting or
> working on the concept (hopefully).
>
> (or something)
>
> --
> /chris/
>
Well, time for me to be the party pooper. Perhaps I can start
another FC is dead thread.
I'm totally against futurec.org I have decided. Too official.
Marius' pages were always just that--*Marius'* pages. In the
kind of "Here's a list I sub to and here's some stuff from this
list" kind of tone.
This whole futurec.org project is taking on the same aura of the
.neXus. thing with Adam Mertz or whatever his name was. "Official
FutureCulture HomePage"? I hope not. However, the mere fact
that it's called futurec.org implies a sense of ORGanization that
I prefer not to see on this list.
Suddenly, Chris "owns" the name futurec.org and is creating a
"special group" to mastermind the FC pages on futurec.org. No
direct offense to you, Chris, because I am sure -- totally 100%
absolutely honestly sure -- that you, Fran, Taylor, et al are not
making some kind of ploy for list domination, but it bugs me that
a small group of people will be in charge of creating something
that will -- for all intents and purposes -- appear to be the
official face of the FutureCulture mailing list. In a forum that
so often speaks out against the few assuming responsibility for
the many, I'm surprised to see a few has decided to elect
themselves responsible for presenting the face of the many to the
public. (Hmm. That sounded meaner than I intended, but I can't
think of another way to phrase it.)
Matter of fact, if I had known how I think I would have
registered the various possible futurec.xxx concatenations ahead
of you and just sat upon them, assuring that there would be NO
seemingly official FC website. It seems the Web increases the
desire to centralize information, even while its hypertext form
attempts to undermine that desire. Why, pray tell, does a
MAILING LIST need a WEBSITE?
-- Greg Ritter eng3ghr@hibbs.vcu.edu