We like Arco but want to point out that this "new" generation he refers to comes with a birth defect- they have no business experience. They have no insight and perspective into how it used to be so they can understand and architect how it should become.
OK so Bruce Marler, George Pickering, Morgan Linton and Elliot Silver defy my logic. Yet they are a case in point. All people whose corporate background served them will and left a legacy of skills that the "new" generation of domainers lack.
As for the old fart domainers which you guys so despise out of jealousy, anger and denial that they know what they are doing and you don't....
My friend Bruce Turkel wrote eloquently today "The Boomers Will Inherit The Earth." I responded with "Young and Pretty Is Good. Older and Wiser is Better." Which leads me to the point in reaction to Arco's post.
My premise is that as boomers we have something none of the other generations have. Just like our grandparents survived the depression, we survived an analog to digital transition.
There's a lot to be said for those of us who grew up on typewriters with carbon paper so we can appreciate scanners, sharing and archiving.
A lot to be said for a traditionally trained designer who can hand draw, used to cut and paste with a knife and work with 4x6s and film. They know how to get attention versus the web designers born digital and breast fed on gaming who know code but lack the practical real-world business experience to understand consumer behavior and how that informs a designer's ability to make a message pop off a page or write a headline that sells.
I could go on and on, but with the way the ecosystem is going with strains on grids and water and energy, things may go backward. Are you prepared? Do you even know what skills would you have to know how to survive?
Appreciate and learn from the elders. You think they don't like you but this is not personal. They just don't like seeing lives and money wasted when the map to success is right in plain sight.
As for Fusible- he's just a Frager wannabe sitting behind the curtain exploiting the names of others who earned their reputation and therefore warrant the record traffic that comes with each drop of the name. Fusible, you don't want to piss people off because they have the skills to peel back your lone ranger mask and the world might not like what they see. Isn't that right Mikey?
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Wow ... is that someone tracing an outline for paste-up!?!? It would remind me of the days when we used to edit audio on a Revox or Ampex using splicing tape. I miss those days. It was an art. I'm Gen-X, and I certainly remember the day when working on that old Sperry mainframe, with 1 Mb of RAM, was en vogue ... and acoustic couplers!!! Data hash ... transportable cell phones and pagers ... pagers!!! Now let me grab my Joan Baez 8-track and rock out! I'm only 41, but I've lived that same analog to digital transition. Youth is truly wasted on the young. Oh well.
Danny,
This is why I wrote posts like this. Not to insult the haters but to emotionally connect with the people who do read and appreciate this blog. Tonight they are felling special with a better appreciation for their value in the world.
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I thought the boomers were the ones that said not to trust anyone over 30.
One wonders why change occurs. Simple really. The next headline in the Domaining email I received this morning is 'Bully the Cat Dies'. This news does 'what' for me? What does it do for everyone else who is involved in this business? Another editor or author will see the stupidity and waste of resources, start his own news feed, and with some luck replace this ostentatious piece of literary swill.
I have read over and over again that domain industry participants want to be considered 'true' professionals. I can almost guarantee that no newsletter coming from any other profession would carry a story about the death of a cat. At the very least, they would include information where to send flowers or the cat's favorite charity in the event that a mourner would care to make a donation on behalf of the deceased. Until then, 'domainers' will continue to be treated as 3rd class citizens.
Any birth defect that does exist is the willingness of community members who tolerate and support this kind of crap with a continuing subscription.
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