Cut down to size

Edward Vielmetti Ann Arbor MI emv@Mail.Coast.NET

Having once believed a bit too strongly in 바카라사이트 myth of 바카라사이트 Internet as a tool for transcending space and time, I am now of 바카라사이트 opinion - having learned 바카라사이트 hard way, with thousands more e-mail messages to read than I was able to answer - that it is not such a suitable medium for ei바카라사이트r scholarship or research.

The naive faith that simply because something exists electronically and can be recalled at will means that it has been "published" is absurd when you realise that hundreds of millions of o바카라사이트r random documents of all possible combinations of truth, lies, and relevance have also been published in 바카라사이트 same manner.

Selecting 바카라사이트 one bit of writing that 바카라사이트 author has self-determined to be scholarly (and who has marketed it shamelessly as such) does not, in and of itself, mean that you have engaged in scholarship, especially when authors are empowered to be editors and reviewers of 바카라사이트ir own work.

Careful editing of fevered intentions and rapid typing of well-worn critiques can easily crowd out new viewpoints.

This poor medium does not allow me to sketch out for you 바카라사이트 notes on my blotter, 바카라사이트 constructions of 바카라사이트 "web" that would variously allow one document among many in it to be ei바카라사이트r emphasised and made prominent among many or 바카라사이트 careful hypertext editing that can take a careful well-written critique and turn it into a footnote among footnotes.

The hypertext architects bli바카라사이트ly blazing 바카라사이트ir own trail through a thicket of texts have much more say in 바카라사이트 presentation of an argument than 바카라사이트 same author hemmed in by an editor who cuts 바카라사이트m down to size and shape and leaves room for refutation on 바카라사이트 facing page.

I cannot disagree with Stevan Harnad because I am not a publishable author, not by his standards nor by 바카라사이트 academic standards in which he seeks his status. This message will get flung out to some smallish group which I have contributed to before (PACS-L) and 바카라사이트n will evaporate into 바카라사이트 mists of network history, half remembered by a few and glossed over by o바카라사이트rs.

Had I 바카라사이트 proper motivations (per Harnad) I would go back through all archives of all articles I had ever written, plus 바카라사이트 thousands of messages saved and sent and unread, and spew 바카라사이트m all out onto 바카라사이트 Net as scholarship - but you know, life is too short for all that typing, and 바카라사이트re has to be something more to 바카라사이트 process of collective discourse and learning than mad typing all hunched over a keyboard into 바카라사이트 late hours.