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Your e&p of ati zine I'm away on vacation and I don't feel like writing very much, so you'll have to wait til I get back before you get too much from me so I'll pretty much let the submissions drive this thing the next couple weeks. s/ marco ps: sh0utz and gr33tz to aries and travis for editing help!!! ___________ `b`b`b`b`b`b`b`b_______________ GATT # ??? (I've lost track. I'll figure it out by next month, promise) marc, thanks for your patience and persisitence. by the way,the chords to Overthrow Bush are simple G D C D for both the chorus and verses; they just keep repeating. peace, michael b. George "W" Bush, quite frankly, SUCKS! Revolution now If Washington won't do it The people will show them how _____________ d^d^d^d^d^d^d^d^d^____________ "accidentally left asspants in nyc" Who Stole The Webby News Award And Why by _John Johnson's Son_ [some names have been changed to protect the anarchist] "The Webby Awards are a celebration of corporate domination over the internet. The whole purpose is to take a popularly created participatory and democratic medium and laude the work of people who are squeeze profit out of it. Sure there are some categories such as activism, the arts, and weird, but the focus, in their rhetoric and during the ceremonies, are the profit hungry dot com's." I know the person who stole the webby award in the news category to protest the corporate domination over the news media both in the traditional and online mediums. I'm paraphrasing words he's posted around the net a bit and I've added some of my own observations. Why? Because I don't want him to get in trouble, but I also don't want to not tell this story because if it doesn't get told we're all sure to suffer. You ready? When he got up to the stage he placed a copy of Noam Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent on the podium, grabbed the news award, and yelled "Fuck the corporate media!" into the microphone. Unfortunately they had already turned off the podium microphone speakers and only the online audience heard his message. Award in hand he ran back down the stage and tried to leave the opera house. One of the webby security guards grabbed the award out of his hands as he pushed through the doors. He said something like "oh no you don't" and he didn't feel like fighting over, and breaking, the spring so he gave it back to him. He ran it back down the hall giving it to winning news people. "Let me say that it wasn't an official 'stunt' and the webby people really didn't like my action," he wrote somewhere on the net. "They apparently do like my website, [ ] as it's been nominated for a webby award both times [they've had a certain] category." Some other higher up in the webby hierarchy came over to chew him out for "messing up their well planned event" and that they'd had to get the inside.com guy to fly out at the last minute from New York. After hanging out in the back of the theater for a while, not thinking it wise to walk back up to his third row seat, the security guards found him and tried to kick him out. They said "that was not cool, not cool." He told them he was a nominee and they let him stay. They said something about how if he was ANYTHING other than a nominee they'd kick him out. It's pretty doubtful that if he were a corporate sponsor they'd even threaten to kick him, but that's what they said. "I ran in to one of the judges in the hall," he says, "who I'd been talking to before. He again went off about how hard they worked to pull off this highly scripted event and I was messing it up for everybody. When I quipped that Webbies even have a tradition of disruption and I hadn't even thrown the webby at the audience like ___.org had, he said that it was a long time ago, implying that things had changed, now at the webbies." ______.org had called them "greedy corporate bastards" back in 1999, and they still are greedy corporate bastards. Only now they're whining about the dot bomb deflating their portfolios. The webby awards have celebrated sites that pioneer the breaking down the wall between advertisers and news content such as amazon, inside.com, cnn, beliefnet, babycenter and many others. This is the wrong direction to take our collective technological development. We have a choice, either we can use this amazing new medium to become a truly popular mass medium where everybody has a voice or we can use it to drive hyper consumerism and friction free capitalism. For example, the technical achievement award went to Microsoft Windows Update and not projects that have been both major technical achievements and fulfill the internet's potential as a libratory medium. "I see such projects as FreeNet, Ogg Vorbis, Gnutella, Apache, *BSD, and Linux itself as all being much more important technical achievements. MWU is a clever way for Microsoft to send you bug fixes! Bugs they created and bugs that are a result of their top heavy corporate development model." When television, radio, and cable were introduced there was a struggle between people who wanted to use the medium for the common good and people who wanted to use the medium for profit and to reproduce the conditions of inequality and domination. The question was, do we use this new technology to reduce social, economic, and information inequality, or do we use it to create a new class of wealthy. This struggle has played out across the world. In the US we have the most corporate and profit driven society and our media systems have been shaped to reflect and reproduce those values. Quickly we saw the rhetoric of the 'information superhighway' be replaced with the ecommerce gold rush. The internet is a creation our society, like all communications mediums it is communal property. We must not let the internet go the way of the newspaper, radio, television, and cable. The communications commons must not be partitioned and sold for private profit. Perhaps this collapse of the hyper inflated internet stocks will help us take the internet back from the VC's, dot commers, marketing spin meisters, and ecommerce biz dev stiff's. This is a medium that can allow us to radically change the balance of information power. Foucault said "Power is not possessed, rather is exercised." We must exercise our power as creators of technology, consumers of news and culture, people who are willing to think critically about the world to fight for the liberation of our internet. DotCom's Burn: The Internet Lives Free! -------------------------- /"\ \ / X ASCII ribbon campaign / \ against formatted mail -------------------------- And the final digs to a five syllable acceptance speech? "Bankruptcy never felt so good." got feedback? ati@etext.org