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rshowalter - 12:08pm May 26, 2001 EST (#4233 of 4238)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

All that makes sense. Academia IS a good place for that sort of thing. And academia is well adapted to getting grants -- and can have low labor costs, even when overhead charges are accounted.

A central problem, if crossreferenced threads are involved, is that link programming would need to be done so that the linkages remained direct.

Let me refer to my particular, personal case.

MD4080: rshowalter 5/18/01 10:21am . . . MD4081: rshowalter 5/18/01 10:22am
which outlined my presentation at the 23d Midwest Neurobiologists meeting last weekend would surely have been different if I'd thought the archiving on "how the brain works" and "Black Holes" was going to be yanked, without warning, within a week of the archiving.

At the meeting, where I largely discussed discourse processes involved in peacemakind and complex focusing I displayed

BW2203-2204: rshowalter "How the Brain Works" 1/21/01 5:10pm
MD: 2865-2866: rshowalter 5/1/01 7:09am
MD3532-3533: rshowalter 5/8/01 6:51pm
MD: 4051-4055: rshowalter 5/17/01 3:05pm

I also discussed the reference connected to MD2604: budrap "Black Holes and the Universe" 6/11/98 6:12pm and some other things from "Black Holes in the Universe"

Something that I showed on a paper basis, and discussed a good deal, with people who were interested, was the very crosslinked and careful setting out of basics of neural resonance theory and backgroud between BW2090 rshowalter "How the Brain Works" 12/23/00 9:16pm and BW2181 rshowalter "How the Brain Works" 1/9/01 8:06am Anyone who goes through that has seen the core of my argument, and a lot of context for it.

At that meeting, I promised to send some people references where that section would have been crucially useful -- not thinking that it would be pulled off the board without notice, under circumstances where, it seems to me, my work on this board has gone well, and served the cause of peace in substantial ways.

My main purpose in that meeting was to interest people in some of the discourse issues discussed on this thread. There was a good deal of interest -- and now references I needed, and expected to have, have been removed.

rshowalter - 12:09pm May 26, 2001 EST (#4234 of 4238)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

The issue of archiving as a way of getting around problems with "the culture of lying" in journalism, is a squarely journalistic issue -- let me fish for links about that.

rshowalter - 12:16pm May 26, 2001 EST (#4235 of 4238)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

MD2088: rshowalter 4/8/01 8:30am states an opinion -- that "Putin-stand in" almarst might actually have connections to the Russian government, and since he says not, I regret the statement. But otherwise, the links make sense, and are mostly connected to issues concerning "the culture of lying" and ways where we may now be able to do better.

Looking at those now -- I think they make the argument that papers like the TIMES ought to look at archiving seriously -- and also look at ways to make money from it.

applez101 - 12:17pm May 26, 2001 EST (#4236 of 4238)

Rshowalter - a far greater issue is proprietary information/coding ... how will that be dealt with, where do the lines of ownership lie?

Here's a link on something like this issue:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,496855,00.html

'Ware the commercialization of the common, for we are all made poorer for it! :)

rshowalter - 12:43pm May 26, 2001 EST (#4237 of 4238)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

I think some things can be charged for -- and nothing is free -- and yes, I know something about the copyright issues -- which are cause for concern. Let me get to your question after a reposting that goes, I think to a core argument with respect to journalism today -- with a modest proposal of my own.

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