RE: <nettime> net.times, not swatch time

["Michael van Eeden" <mieg@waag.org>]

it's even worse: there is a watch called Nettime!

  http://www.swatch.com/internettime/fs_nettime.phtml

Seriously, Isn't this a bit over the top? It is a very smart marketing
ploy, but I don't see any way to take this seriously. Clearly they just
_paid_ CNN to put internet-time on their homepage. As the smallest unit of
time in swatch internet time is about 1.5 minute, and it is based on the
BMT (Biel Mean Time), it is nothing more than a good joke. What if this
had been a project of one of the net.artists? Would it still have been as
suspicious? 

Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nettime-l@basis.Desk.nl
> [mailto:owner-nettime-l@basis.Desk.nl]On Behalf Of Geert Lovink
> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 1998 2:26 PM
> To: nettime-l@Desk.nl
> Subject: <nettime> net.times, not swatch time
>
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> net.times, not swatch time
> by geert lovink
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