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?
--
Ade
Received on Tue Jul 18 2006 - 11:02:51 BST