On 1/3/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman(a)spamcop.net> wrote:
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 14:38:55 -0600 (CST), "Jeff
Raymond"
<jeff.raymond(a)internationalhouseofbacon.com> wrote:
The sooner we start allowing blogs and other
self-published publications
be reliable sources for these sorts of things, the better.
Yes, you'll get rid of all those tiresome people who think Wikipedia
is an encyclopaedia and aspire to some kind of credibility, and you
can get on with the job of documenting crap off teh internets, a genre
for which there is a real paucity of verbiage based on other crap off
teh internets.
Wait, I think you just invented Fark.
On good days, this keeps nutsy cruft away.
On bad days, people wave the knife around to the extent that even The
New York Times and books published by reputable publishers aren't
sufficiently reliable, and the unpopular topic of the day gets nuked
anyways.
Consistency apparently isn't our strong suit so far this year...
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-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com