On 3/28/07, William Pietri <william(a)scissor.com> wrote:
jayjg wrote:
There are
two questions that matter here.
1) Is Teresa Nielsen Hayden a source worthy of citing in matters
related to publishing?
2) Does Making Light definitely contain material by her?
The answer to both is unquestionably yes. Here endeth the discussion.
Not really. Blogs have no editorial oversight, and their contents are
ephemeral - that is, they can change without notice, leaving evidence
of that change.
What sort of editorial oversight do you believe is in place for an
interview in a normal publication?
The fact checker checks that you said it; the editor decides whether
or not the magazine or newspaper will fact a lawsuit if they print it.
The latter, in my view, is fairly criticial.
As to the latter, there's no technical barrier for
web publishers of any
sort, blogs or magazines. The main protection is convention; in both
realms it is customary to note changes on the page, and you risk
ridicule if you don't do that. But the original text is not sacrosanct.
It's better than nothing, though.
To overcome this would it be sufficient in your eyes
to cite from the
Internet Archive or WebCite?
The odds of either of them actually catching some change on an
individual blog are very, very low.
Jay.