The trouble with being a professional nerd is the language I would normally use to talk the net would deeply bore most of the people here. Even mentioning the internet caused clay tablets. I've tried to find a different balance, and seem to have gone too far the other way.
There are thousands of technologies within the net, some of which are in the web, but the web is an amalgam too (e.g. http, https, html, xml, ftp, cha cha cha) and needs other net technologies to work properly (e.g. dns, dhcp, etc.). The technical differences between them might as well be as simple as saying the web is the pretty part of the net; they share too much to be truely distinct.
I'd suggest the net isn't becoming confused with other things, it's merely the transport, an easy way to get them.
I thoroughly agree with you about live presence.
Oh, and I'm impressed, so far, with Steve Sneyd's "Gestaltmacher, Gestaltmacher, Make Me a Gestalt". Good pint too.
---------- Original Message -------------
Subject: Poetry and the Internet
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 21:35:12 +0100
From: Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sorry, that's too telegraphic
The kind of expansion you speak of does not need the net.In fact little does
need the net. Most of what is referred to as the net is in fact the web
which post dates the net by a long way
Multi media doesnt need the net, but a lot of the resources - player, screen
eg - are based around the machine used to access the net and web; and they
become confused
If video and or audio recordings are being used as documentary then live
presence is likely to be preferable, regardless of the quality of the poet
L
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lawrence Upton" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: Poetry and the Internet
> > With the net, you can expand beyond just the printed word, you can hear
> the poem as it's meant to be recited, the sound world expressed---so long
as
> the poet records a recitation. Mind you, hearing a good poet live is best.
>
> a cassette will do that - you can watch the text too with a DVD
>
> > You don't need someone's else's approval to put your poetry where other
> people can see it on the net. Generally, this is an advantage of books.
>
> ?
>
> L
>
>
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