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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 <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >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 >[log in to unmask]