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This is bumplist , which is, um, er, an art project by Jonah Brucker Cohen, who is a sort digital art of jack of all trades master of all (my sources tell me) and a hell of a nice guy. The best way of explaining it is the spiel on the site, so here goes some quality cut'n'pasting in case, I dunno, the links fail or UBB blows up or something:
" BumpList is a mailing list aiming to re-examine the culture and rules of online email lists. BumpList only allows for a minimum amount of subscribers so that when a new person subscribes, the first person to subscribe is "bumped", or unsubscribed from the list. Once subscribed, you can only be unsubscribed if someone else subscribes and "bumps" you off. BumpList actively encourages people to participate in the list process by requiring them to subscribe repeatedly if they are bumped off. The focus of the project is to determine if by attaching simple rules to communication mediums, the method and manner of correspondences that occur as well as behaviors of connection will change over time. "
Indeed. I've been a member on and off since it's inception. It's become one of those sort of reflex things I do when on the internet. A hardcore of about twenty seem to be monopolising it. There have been some interesting discussions, but by the very nature of the concept, any discussion is truncated fairly sharply. Which is a little frustrating, but I guess that's "the method and manner of correspondences" evolving away. You might like to play with it for a while. I think the secret to totting up a high time is to be on the list over night....
This is bumplist
" BumpList is a mailing list aiming to re-examine the culture and rules of online email lists. BumpList only allows for a minimum amount of subscribers so that when a new person subscribes, the first person to subscribe is "bumped", or unsubscribed from the list. Once subscribed, you can only be unsubscribed if someone else subscribes and "bumps" you off. BumpList actively encourages people to participate in the list process by requiring them to subscribe repeatedly if they are bumped off. The focus of the project is to determine if by attaching simple rules to communication mediums, the method and manner of correspondences that occur as well as behaviors of connection will change over time. "
Indeed. I've been a member on and off since it's inception. It's become one of those sort of reflex things I do when on the internet. A hardcore of about twenty seem to be monopolising it. There have been some interesting discussions, but by the very nature of the concept, any discussion is truncated fairly sharply. Which is a little frustrating, but I guess that's "the method and manner of correspondences" evolving away. You might like to play with it for a while. I think the secret to totting up a high time is to be on the list over night....
This is bumplist