Sorry Ade's mail got stuck for a while, I just freed it from the
deferred queue
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 14:31 +0100, Adrian Ward wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Julian Rohrhuber wrote:
>
> > >>>> http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71248-0.html
> > >>>>
> > >>>> The next slub gig will have to be mainly Ade on his trumpet
> > >>>
> > >>> I like the controversy and bile that toplap seems to raise in
> > >>> places like
> > >>> that, seems a good sign to me :)
> > >>
> > >> which places do you mean? wired? trumpet? the net? the world? :-)
> > >
> > >I was thinking about the comments - in wired/slashdot etc, it is always a
> > >concept that seems to make a certain percentage of people angry.
>
> It's a shame the anger isn't directed at the tabloid journalism that
> generates these sorts of stories. The article is full of inaccuracies,
> misrepresentations and is, at best, one person's glossy intepretation of
> something more substantial than the populist agenda it is pushing. I
> suspect if the general Wired readership were aware of this such comments
> wouldn't be so strong.
>
> Really... "traded in his guitar when he found he could be more creative
> with code than with strings". Typical tabloidism.
>
> One of the great things about TOPLAP is that we can respond to this sort
> of misrepresentation through ironic reflection. Our manifesto is
> intentionally tongue-in-cheek to do exactly this. The same could be said
> of our non-commital acronym. These are weapons we should be using to
> destroy the narrowminded casting of populist media. It's not like we
> _need_ the acceptance of Wired's readership.
>
> I think we should form a TOPLAP Certification and Award scheme.
> Certificates could be issued authoritatively to livecoding software to
> reinforce the fact that livecoding is a thoroughly serious and important
> facet of modern performance. Software producers would be able to apply for
> permission to TOPLAP to include the certification logo on software to show
> their compliance. Individuals could be rewarded to show how committed they
> are to the livecoding cause. It would be thoroughly important, and include
> lots of handwaving and backslapping. We'd write press releases, and
> everything.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
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