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Thursday, 20 June 2002 |
Heaps of new articles on Macromedia MX products at their Designer/Developer center. Go get ’em, people.
The info-drought is long over. No more excuses for ignorance about Macromedia products, and the future of the Web.
11:08:15 PM 
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[Source: MacNN]Anderson recited anecdotal evidence suggesting that the recent Real People (Windows Switcher) campaign is driving traffic to the stores, noting that some customers have walked into Apple retail stores declaring “I’m a Switcher.”
11:02:20 PM
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Damon Wright is another of the recent switchers from the wobbly world of Windows to the luminous world of the Macintosh.
10:51:43 PM
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It is no longer possible to affect the role of the idiot savant artist who grew up on the edge of the deserts while creating their work knowing nothing about their forebears or the history of their medium, or indeed of any medium.
Not in the age of the Internet, when any bozo can rock along to an Internet café and type a search phrase into Google.
Nor indeed was it permissible in the age of the book. I did grow up on the edge of the deserts and natural curiosity led me to read everything I could get my hands on, and when that ran out, I asked the local lending library to order more books in for me.
Flip through the pages of any art compendium, or all-inclusive history of a medium, and you get a damned good overview of what has gone before, and who is what.
The only value the idiot savant pose might contain is that of providing a suitably empty vessel for curatorial intervention. But even curators know that it is nothing more than a pose.
10:47:59 PM
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© Copyright 2002 Karl-Peter Gottschalk.
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