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<div> </div><br><span style="font-family:Lucida Handwriting,Cursive">OK. Thanks Jerome. I started the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); ">Wikipedia page today - and we can build it up collectively. However, the editorial scouts there might flag what they call Original Research (they are against that there) - so it is not a place to do too much interview stuff. </span></span><div><span style="font-family:Lucida Handwriting,Cursive"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Lucida Handwriting,Cursive"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); ">For the page ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THE_THING_(Net_Art_Project) ) I merely cut out anything that was repeated on your page - and the stuff that I thought was too bulky or off the central historical line. I tried to line things up by year. So your page will continue to be important and should grow.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Lucida Handwriting,Cursive"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); ">It would be great if you can make a French version -- and someone else a German, Spanish etc version....</span><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting', cursive; "><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Lucida Handwriting,Cursive"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting', cursive; ">So here we go into </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); ">Wikipedia. SEE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THE_THING_(Net_Art_Project)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting', cursive; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting', cursive; ">Joseph Nechvatal </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting', cursive; "><br></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Handwriting', cursive"><img src="http://gfx2.hotmail.com/mail/w4/pr01/ltr/emoticons/smile_party.gif" width="19" height="19" alt=""><img src="http://gfx2.hotmail.com/mail/w4/pr01/ltr/emoticons/smile_shades.gif" width="19" height="19" alt=""></font><div><br><br><br><hr id="stopSpelling">From: joy@thing.net<br>Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:15:15 +0200<br>To: thingist@mailman.thing.net<br>Subject: Re: [thingist] proposed text for THE THING wikipedia page<br><br><div><br class="ecxkhtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="ecxkhtml-block-placeholder"></div>Hi Joseph,<div><br class="ecxkhtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>was not online, but no time today to write a reply.</div><div>but ok, I'm here now ;-), you can edit the page and make some corrections or improve the presentation I began.</div><div>As I told you, this editing was a draft ready for a further exploration and writing. Most of things come out from copy/paste of various texts, messages, archives, etc. I have compiled along the years.</div><div><br class="ecxkhtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>I'm sure that we can develop a better text and presentation.</div><div><br class="ecxkhtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>Are you all ok to participate to the wiki ?</div><div>My proposition is to write a series of texts, based on interviews, archives' probing, etc. which can offer various aspects of TT : documentation, studies, essays, notes, reports, etc.</div><div>A large part could concern graphic (and sound) documentation (photos, videos, etc.).</div><div>Thus we can cross information (from different sources and references) and validate the outputs.</div><div>And the better, I think, it's to do it together...</div><div><br class="ecxkhtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="ecxkhtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>sounds good ?</div><div><br class="ecxkhtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="ecxkhtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>Joseph, to go swiftly, what are the parts you don't include within the Wikipedia presentation ?</div><div>I answer to your question below.</div><div><br class="ecxkhtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="ecxkhtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>best and warmly</div><div><br class="ecxkhtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="ecxkhtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>jerome</div><div><br class="ecxkhtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="ecxkhtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><div><div>Le 21 juil. 10 à 16:32, Joseph Nechvatal a écrit :</div><br class="ecxApple-interchange-newline"><blockquote> <div><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="'Lucida Handwriting', cursive"><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></font></div><div><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="'Lucida Handwriting', cursive"><br></font></div><div><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="'Lucida Handwriting', cursive">OK. I take it Jerome is offline. So I did an edit on what he had below. Check it out everyone before I paste it into <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org">http://en.wikipedia.org</a> (or stop me if you hate this idea).</font></div><div><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="'Lucida Handwriting', cursive"><br></font></div><div><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="'Lucida Handwriting', cursive">I will need a sub-description (it will be hidden for the most part) to seperate The Thing out from the film and everything else Thingy. Is this OK? </font><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:24px">(Net Art Project)</span></div></blockquote><div><br class="ecxkhtml-block-placeholder"></div>seems to be good</div><div>or : Net-Artivism ?</div><div><br class="ecxkhtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>:-)</div><div><br class="ecxkhtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="ecxkhtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="ecxkhtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br><blockquote><div><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="'Lucida Handwriting', cursive"><br></font></div><div><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="'Lucida Handwriting', cursive">So please quickly read this and make any cuts or changes. Of course I or anyone can change the page after I create it - but the scrutiny will be very strict. Not that it won't be right away. </font></div><div><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="'Lucida Handwriting', cursive">BTW, what are the page #'s on TT in the Dieter Daniels, Gunther Reisinger (Eds.) “Net Pioneers 1.0: Contextualizing Early Net-Based Art”, Sternberg. 2010?</font></div><div><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="'Lucida Handwriting', cursive"><br></font></div><div><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="'Lucida Handwriting', cursive">cheers</font></div><div><font class="ecxApple-style-span" face="'Lucida Handwriting', cursive">Joseph Nechvatal </font></div><div><br class="ecxkhtml-block-placeholder"></div> </blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div> <br /><hr />The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with Hotmail. <a href='http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multicalendar&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_5' target='_new'>Get busy.</a></body>
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