tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28231853.post6720331030770468285..comments2023-11-05T06:22:35.320-06:00Comments on Reading Information Studies: what the industry thinksGreg Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09154543464555817869noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28231853.post-22023567838010873572007-06-22T10:32:00.000-05:002007-06-22T10:32:00.000-05:00Just to say that in catching up with this ongoing ...Just to say that in catching up with this ongoing discussion, I'd like to second the notion that in addition to the majors, there is a whole counterculture of indie publishing in music,art,elsewhere--I spent part of yesterday listening to some really firstrate pop music coming to me from MySpace. In a way, this seems almost more interesting to me as a topic, than the instutionalized corporate viewpoint, though probably one would not exist without the other. <BR/><BR/>I'm getting interested in what I have begun to learn is a stream of digital utopianism. There's an ongoing tension in new technologies over the centuries, it seems to me, between the institutional and the contrarian. <BR/> <BR/>That's my grad-student take on this. Keep up the advice to the newbies, I'm already benefitting from the suggestions about how to deal with the legal aspects, which I have been wondering about!Barbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05130109997169678830noreply@blogger.com