Naming your work is very important. Although it is image-based, you have to store the files in the computer. Names must be meaningful so when you're scrolling through the lists of image files you can recognise the one you're looking for. Gillian Bunce, Dept of Fashion and Textiles, NTU "It's extremely affordable. Although the world intellectual property organisation usually rules in favour of cybersquatters who have bought names speculatively and tried to re-sell them at profit, it's less hassle to get in first and register your name anyway. Andy Oldfield on "dot-comming" himself New York, August 2001: Jason Black and Frances Schroeder put the name of their baby up for auction in the Internet. They're looking for a corporate sponsor to pay half a million dollars for their son's name. They're hoping that the media exposure afforded by a lifetime, starting with the media moment when the name is unveiled, will attract sponsors' investment. No news can be found about any successful bidders so far…. Make an anagram of your name 'Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo.......?' William Shakespeare's famous love story 'Romeo and Juliet' is depicted on this set of four lovely art soaps. "How helpful is it to spend time wondering if 'Author X' is any more or less likely a name than 'Smith'? If I had come here only as plain Maz would I be any more or less 'real'? If someone posts as Zagblot Wormhunger does that make their views or writing any less valid? Do they have to have a face, a picture online to be real?" Identity online discussion at the trAce Webboard Web Warp Weft ©Helen Whitehead 2001 | Web Warp & Weft | Last amended September 2001
Naming your work is very important. Although it is image-based, you have to store the files in the computer. Names must be meaningful so when you're scrolling through the lists of image files you can recognise the one you're looking for. Gillian Bunce, Dept of Fashion and Textiles, NTU
"It's extremely affordable. Although the world intellectual property organisation usually rules in favour of cybersquatters who have bought names speculatively and tried to re-sell them at profit, it's less hassle to get in first and register your name anyway. Andy Oldfield on "dot-comming" himself
New York, August 2001: Jason Black and Frances Schroeder put the name of their baby up for auction in the Internet. They're looking for a corporate sponsor to pay half a million dollars for their son's name. They're hoping that the media exposure afforded by a lifetime, starting with the media moment when the name is unveiled, will attract sponsors' investment. No news can be found about any successful bidders so far….
Make an anagram of your name
'Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo.......?' William Shakespeare's famous love story 'Romeo and Juliet' is depicted on this set of four lovely art soaps.
"How helpful is it to spend time wondering if 'Author X' is any more or less likely a name than 'Smith'? If I had come here only as plain Maz would I be any more or less 'real'? If someone posts as Zagblot Wormhunger does that make their views or writing any less valid? Do they have to have a face, a picture online to be real?" Identity online discussion at the trAce Webboard
©Helen Whitehead 2001 | Web Warp & Weft | Last amended September 2001