Comments on: No Offense Intended… http://nodemagazine.com/2007/08/17/no-offense-intended/ Everything is Potential Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:33:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: console http://nodemagazine.com/2007/08/17/no-offense-intended/#comment-64 console Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:17:31 +0000 http://nodemagazine.com/2007/08/17/no-offense-intended/#comment-64 Just goes to show that even pro-technology Gibson fans can be backwater elitists who are quick to whine about decentralized content. The same thing happens with my peers, electronic musicians, quite often - the need to preserve one's status as part of a small group of people who can do something no one else can or who are privy to information or insight no one else has. These people are embarrassments to those of us who actually attempt to explore new frontiers by contributing to them, as opposed to simply sitting in a corner intellectualizing themselves by way of something truly smart - anything Gibson does or says. Cheers to you for doing something on your own, let alone impressive. And anyone who complains about advertisement will certainly never get anything out into the world, virtual or otherwise. It's the way things work, and railing against the idea is just as much a waste of time as railing against technological progress. Cheers, sir. Just goes to show that even pro-technology Gibson fans can be backwater elitists who are quick to whine about decentralized content. The same thing happens with my peers, electronic musicians, quite often - the need to preserve one’s status as part of a small group of people who can do something no one else can or who are privy to information or insight no one else has. These people are embarrassments to those of us who actually attempt to explore new frontiers by contributing to them, as opposed to simply sitting in a corner intellectualizing themselves by way of something truly smart - anything Gibson does or says. Cheers to you for doing something on your own, let alone impressive. And anyone who complains about advertisement will certainly never get anything out into the world, virtual or otherwise. It’s the way things work, and railing against the idea is just as much a waste of time as railing against technological progress. Cheers, sir.

]]> By: Citizen Spook http://nodemagazine.com/2007/08/17/no-offense-intended/#comment-47 Citizen Spook Sat, 18 Aug 2007 19:10:10 +0000 http://nodemagazine.com/2007/08/17/no-offense-intended/#comment-47 Don't worry about that asshole(s), he or she is simply projecting their jealousies onto you. Why didn't I think of that...etc. As for Node Magazine, why not make it a real online magazine once all the Spook Country hype dies down? You have you first article ideas already--tracking shipping containers, South China Seas piracy, war chalking, geo-locative art. Try to make it an extension of Gibson's world, which is the real world.... Don’t worry about that asshole(s), he or she is simply projecting their jealousies onto you. Why didn’t I think of that…etc.

As for Node Magazine, why not make it a real online magazine once all the Spook Country hype dies down? You have you first article ideas already–tracking shipping containers, South China Seas piracy, war chalking, geo-locative art. Try to make it an extension of Gibson’s world, which is the real world….

]]> By: Memetic Engineer http://nodemagazine.com/2007/08/17/no-offense-intended/#comment-43 Memetic Engineer Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:47:00 +0000 http://nodemagazine.com/2007/08/17/no-offense-intended/#comment-43 Obviously other people's blogs and websites can choose to censor or block comments, even when they appear to have an open comments policy. This is understandable given the amount of clueless spam attempts to influence Google search engine rankings. Do not be disheartened by any such petty criticism by a minority of the people who frequent the official William Gibson board - they are not the majority of William Gibson's fans or admirers, or of the wider public. What would be interesting to see in <em>Node Magazine</em> is some <em>Wired/em> style "Corporate Advertisements" for, say, Blue Ant or Maas-Biotek, Tessier-Ashpool, or other fictional brand names devised by William Gibson or other cyberpunk authors. Obviously other people’s blogs and websites can choose to censor or block comments, even when they appear to have an open comments policy. This is understandable given the amount of clueless spam attempts to influence Google search engine rankings.

Do not be disheartened by any such petty criticism by a minority of the people who frequent the official William Gibson board - they are not the majority of William Gibson’s fans or admirers, or of the wider public.

What would be interesting to see in Node Magazine is some Wired/em> style “Corporate Advertisements” for, say, Blue Ant or Maas-Biotek, Tessier-Ashpool, or other fictional brand names devised by William Gibson or other cyberpunk authors.

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