Quote: 'typing the NYT.....'
But, Catherine, he didn't type it, he scanned it.
On Fri, 2 Oct 2009 10:49:39 -0700, Catherine Daly
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>I'm fnding this all fascinatng to consider in many ways.
>For a book I'm wrting, I have long been researching courtesans, and
have
>just moved back to Nell Gwynn and Mary Robinson (though much later
than
>Gwynn). Charles 2, not Charles 1, but. A gifted ad libber and an
actor in
>versions of Shakespeare by other people.
>
>One of the things that KG has underplayed recently is the performative
>nature of his work. KJ is the most unlikely of performance artists, but
I
>think in the theatre of appropriation, slight of hand, western snake oil
as
>false marketing, versus eastern snake oil as a help for joint pain...
typing
>the NYT or 1010WINS weather report is much different than applying
stickers.
> And this dirty trick of stealing reality or old books and putting them on
>stage.
>
>Then, too, someone on poetics mentioned the whole idea of progress
in the
>debate is somewhat questionable. I have a rather different take:
Kent's is
>really not the purer concept, or the furthest along. It seems more like
if
>the NYT is 1.0, KG is 2.0, and KJ is 2.1.
>
>Each segment captures a different intent:
>
> - the major segment indicates breakage in the API
> - the minor segment indicates "externally visible" changes
> - the service segment indicates bug fixes and the change of
development
> stream (the semantics attached to development stream is new to
this
> proposal, see below)
> - the qualifier segment indicates a particular build
>
>
>
>--
>All best,
>Catherine Daly
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