[WikiEN-l] Blog Entries (Bauer fork)

[The Cunctator]

On 3/28/07, jayjg <jayjg99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/28/07, Philip Sandifer <snowspinner at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mar 28, 2007, at 10:45 AM, Stephen Bain wrote:
> >
> > > Your implication that she is always a reliable source about publishing
> > > is as misguided as the assertion you are arguing against, that she
> > > never is. A big problem is that you fail to distinguish that for which
> > > she is a reliable source.
> > >
> >
> > Her claims on matters related to publishing are sufficiently
> > significant that they can reasonably be reported. Where there is
> > disagreement, they should be clearly attributed to her point of view.
> > > Her blog is *always* a great source for her opinion. It may or may not
> > > be a reliable source for fact, and is probably not most of the time,
> > > no matter how often she's actually right.
> >
> > And her opinion on publishing matters is worth including. One such
> > notable opinion is "Barbara Bauer is a fraud."
> >
> > > As to your point about where her words are published, yes it does make
> > > a difference. When what she says comes from an interview and is
> > > published by an intermediary, we have that intermediary's reliability
> > > to hang our hat on. When what she says is delivered in a lecture, we
> > > have the host's reliability to hang our hat on.
> >
> > Nonsense. When I invite a speaker to the University of Florida to
> > give a lecture at a conference, I don't intend our invitation to be a
> > warranty of their factual accuracy. Nor do we offer such a warranty
> > when and if we post the transcript or video of the lecture on our
> > website, or even in our journal. All we do is vouch for the accuracy
> > of the transcription and claim to its significance in some fashion.
> >
> > In the case of Teresa Nielsen Hayden, though, that significance is no
> > longer in doubt.
> >
> > 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.
>
Newspaper stories online regularly change without notice.