[lbo-talk] sketching an "anti-economist"

[Jeffrey Fisher]

On 8/26/07, bitch at pulpculture.org <bitch at pulpculture.org> wrote:
>
> At 01:31 PM 8/20/2007, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> >On Aug 20, 2007, at 2:18 PM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote:
> >
> > > On the upside, if you only want it to be online, that's relatively
> > > cheap.
> > > Shoot, Doug and Liza could probably get it up and running any time
> > > they want
> > > with relatively small investment. I'll bet they'd get writers
> > > coming out of
> > > the woodwork. :)
> >
> >Sure, but I'm tired of reading stuff that reads like it was written
> >and edited for free or very close to it. It would be really nice to
> >do the thing right - which would, in part, involve buying people
> >tickets and sending them places to talk to interesting people.
> >
> >Doug
>
> and actually spending money on good design....

That, too. Except that the argument you get (I see it in software and web
app design, too) is that if the content/functionality is there, so what if
it's not pretty [sic]?

j