Date: Tue, 18 Jul 95 17:12:17 PDT
On Tue, 18 Jul 1995 at 13:22:11 (and remember those hundreds of a second
count), godsdog@digmedia.com (Mitch Ratcliffe of Digital Media/Digital World)
wrote:
>Folks, this is intended not as an editorial comment, nor as criticism, but
>as a sort of shared musing upon the subject:
>
>I've been following this thread with amusement for some time now. The
>subject line of this particular message is particularly interesting: Why is
>it appropriate to use the possessive to describe the Net? It is a medium,
>not our medium....
Which hefollowed by various musings about how that subject line pertains to
ownership, the industrial era, exclusivity, indicators of a self-anointed old
guard's fear that the clubhouse has been invaded, brain-damage induced mental
illness, too much teevee, thinking like old media barons, the Net not as a
private medium but very public petri dish, etc., musings I've snipped.
Mitch, I'm the author of that subject line and I called it "our medium"
simply because it's the medium we're using to hold this discussion. No other
appropriate reason. Yours was an amusing discussion of meta-issues, though.
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