... links to interesting places ...

Another announcement mailinglist, mainly European scene, is Spectre,
very good in its genre, a reincarnation of the older syndicate...
http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre

there you find lots of announcements... you'll see what I mean. I
like Spectre and I think Andreas Broeckmann has done a great work in
networking and still moderating it to an acceptable level of info.

However I think that what we really missed at the time we started
bricolabs was a discussion list, while the danger to create another
announcement mailinglist was immediately behind the corner with the
usual suspects cc'ing their own initiatives here too... made me bark.

well, to those now trying hard to make their cozy heads-up posts
looking like announcements: no they are not! :^) I'm not (just)
complaining about personal advertisement, but referring to
announcements with marketing language used in the fast-food of
culture, art & science, texts written by corporate communication
operators... if you don't know what I mean then... oh dear reader, you
should be always so lucky!

Mailinglists aren't the best medium for announcements anyway: most
mails are in html anyway, but then they aren't on the web and they
don't help aggregation... better to use a blog and aggregate via
Planets, like http://planet.bricolabs.net or http://planet.dyne.org
(IMHO)

ciao



On Thu, 01 Dec 2011, John Hopkins wrote:
>
> I've been running a small mailing list since 1997 called "neoscenes"
> -- I set it up with my many students in mind, to help keep them
> informed of interesting things happening 'out there' as I am pretty
> well connected (as a participant) with a variety of cultural,
> technical, and social systems and have a data flow across my desk
> which can be quite provocative.
>
> It's a low-volume announcement list (not more than 5 posts weekly)
> primarily, not much discussion, about 150 people on it. It's pretty
> stable in size since I haven't been promoting it much lately. If
> you want to subscribe,
> http://nujus.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/neoscenes (BTW, thanks to
> nujus.net for hosting) The list was previously hosted onlistservs
> at Ars Electronica (Linz), and then Atelier Nord (Oslo), then on a
> server in Finland, and now nujus!
>
> cheers,
> jh