::fibreculture:: bad ideas

[craig bellamy]

Hi all,

To divert me from the grueling black tunnel of post grad study, I have 
started a new site called 'bad ideas'.

In this post hype era and as we perhaps enter another global recession 
spurred on by the bursting of the Internet speculative bubble, it is 
perhaps worth noting for posterity the worst ideas to come out of the 
Internet boom. It was the bursting of the real estate bubble that sent the 
Japanese economy into a decade-long-plus recession, so perhaps we are 
moving into some more protestant times. Last year I was told that there 
were 40,000 vacancies in IT in Australia, now I am told that there are 
10,000 highly skilled people that are unemployed. If 5 or 10 billion 
dollars has been knocked of the price of Australian tech stocks, then 
already this is our GDP growth for a year.

If there is a link between economics and culture, then perhaps there is 
also a 'cultural speculative bubble' that has developed around the 
increased availability of funding for Internet art and culture, and its 
protection through concepts such as cyperspace. This will soon be blown out 
the arse of $1 a litre Falcon drivers along with the budget surplus. So 
long speculative culture bubble.

I have ripped off IBM's bad ideas campaign and used it to construct a site 
focusing on bad ideas with a cultural twist. It would be great if people 
could contribute to this site so it can become a historical depositary of 
cyber corpses (other wise it will just be my own relative myopia...how 
unusual for an Internet researcher :).  A bad idea is still a bad idea even 
on line, a bad historian is still a bad historian, even on-line, a bad 
activist is still a bad activist, even on-line, a bad artist is still a bad 
artist even on-line etc.

http://www.milkbar.com.au/bad_ideas.htm


real world regards,

Craig Bellamy
(bad list contributor)
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