The Longest Now

Berkman was full of excitement last Thursday. Amanda was almost as fabulous as the guy who explained wikipedia to us. I thought about joining the wikimania bunch upstairs, but I had an appointment for a online rendezvous. [I know what you’re thinking. Even more perverse. 🙂 ] More importantly, I haven’t significantly wiki’d yet. I am going to start writing for the pedia. Perhaps I’ll join up with the maniacs in the future. If you see a distinct contribution I could make, let me know and I’ll join you sooner.

-r

BTW. I’ve decided passing my posts/comments through a tool the links to everything in the pedia is dangerous. I might be tempted to link to things I have not actually read. There should be a rule about that. As a graduate student I was stunned when I discovered that my advisor had not read all the papers he cited in his bibliographies. A post-doc informed me that this is in fact common practice = “everybody cites everybody, nobody reads anybody.” Whatever the technology – silicon on saphire or carbon on cellulose – how people actually use it matters.
Character counts. But I’m not worried about you. I think you’re one of white hatters.

-r

I really wish manilla would allow previewing and/or editing of comments. Somehow I need visual cues to separate the writing from the proofreading. -r