RE: UKNM: Industry Bodies...

[Robin Edwards]

Beautiful. Please accept the centre page spread in my forthcoming book of

New Media Poetry :o)


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> -----Original Message-----

>

From: ownerchinwag [dot] com [ownerchinwag [dot] com]On">mailto:ownerchinwag [dot] com]On Behalf Of Tom

> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 5:05 PM

>

To: uk-netmarketingmail [dot] chinwag [dot] com

> Subject: Re: UKNM: Industry Bodies...

>

>

> >I am all for measures that get rid of some of the cowboys in

> this industry

> but

> >paying out hundreds and thousands of pounds to join all three of these

> agencies

>

> There seems to be many and frequent references to "cowboys" on this list,

> but what exactly is meant by this? Is it the huge monoliths who waste

> clients' money with endless meetings and process documents,

> meaningless work

> plans and badly implemented (if implementable at all) design? Or possibly

> the poseurs, who will postulate about the flash milage they are producing

> whilst zooming around on their little metal scooters quoting Barthes and

> Beach Boys lyrics whilst being shamefully exploited by some twat

> that still

> tries to go to clubs in spite of being 50 years old? Or the agencies that

> are "moving into new/multi/internet media" from advertising/print/graphic

> design/knitting/vole skinning, and are staggering in their niaivity and

> destructive in their example? Or the Internet Start-ups, selling the next

> useless piece of w*nk on the grounds that one day, after that

> paradigm shift

> that will inevitably result from this particular w*nk, it will be needed

> like fathers' dogs? Or the multinationals, delivering broken

> technologies to

> the unsuspecting for the ill-informed? Or even the regulatory/industry

> bodies, staffed by jerks bankrupted by Ye Olde CD-ROM Mutlimedia

> Revolution

> who managed to scrape some miserable award for Best Rubbish Thing No-One

> Wants that gives them the self-importance to "SPEAK FOR THE

> INDUSTRY!!!" and

> who probably think that the RIP bill is a really good idea and will give

> recommendations to the Government on the importance of Version 2 browsers?

>

> Or is it the case that if you shout the warning about the cowboy,

> you cannot

> therefore be one yourself?

>

> Tom Dussek

> Tui



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