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Season Thirteen - Travelling Light
With a woman at the helm and with total disregard, even contempt for the limitations of patriarchal systems and the dodgey dictates of the bought and paid for dinosaur mainstream media in Australia - Brindle Style decided to let go of community print and embarked upon the blog. In 2003 we introduced the first Brindle Style Artists Forums.
"No chaff, no grist for the mill Web1 was an outsider artists dream come true. Most online inter-industry artists communication occurred with the U.S. Community remained loyal to print. With only a handful of cyber media proponents working in Australia at that time it was very level playing field.." TROPICS of CAPRICORN SOCIAL INNOVATION
Maiia Despite the advances in communications technology - the voice of the people, the 'word on the street' seems less tangible.
"Go and find out things that people want to put in the paper." said Sacharissa
"And things that people don't want put in the paper" William added
"And interesting things." said Sacharissa.
"Like that rain of dogs a few months ago?" said O'Biscuit
There was no rain of dogs two months ago." William snapped "One puppy is not a rain, it fell out of a window. Look, we are not interested in pet precipitation, spontaneous combustion, or people being carried off by weird things that fell out of the sky."
"Unless it happens." said Sacharissa (By Terry Pratchett)
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