John Perry Barlow on Mon, 9 Feb 1998 23:45:56 +0100 (MET) |
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At 4:23 PM -0500 2/6/98, Julian Dibbell wrote: >Reading through the entertaining and generally right-on responses to >Richard Barbrook's latest, I stumbled momentarily over Ted Byfield's casual >assertion, regarding nettime's Satanic Day-Glo nemesis, that "the >magazine's dying." I won't argue for or against the assertion, but it >alerted me to the strange fact that nobody on this list seems to have made >any mention of the tremendous and, I think, encouraging changes that took >place at Wired late last year. It is worth noting that Wired Ventures made a profit last year and that the magazine, unburdened by its electronic enterprises would have made a very large profit. I would say that anyone out there gleefully writing our obituary might want to hold off. Yrs, John Perry **************************************************************** John Perry Barlow, Cognitive Dissident Co-Founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation Home(stead) Page: http://www.eff.org/~barlow MegaPhone: 800/654-4322 Barlow in Meatspace Today: Orlando, Generica Coming soon to: Cannes 2/10-11, Cambridge & New York 2/12, Coral Gables, FL 2/13-16, New York City 2/17, Cambridge... ***************************************************************** It's easier to make money than to steal it. -- Bill Joy --- # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@icf.de and "info nettime" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@icf.de