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Rules for the link economy « Perverse and Often Baffling — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:54:03 +0000

[...] for the link economy Jump to Comments From a Philip Palin post at Homeland Security Watch (great blog, BTW): I have just returned from twelve days of travel. When traveling I depend on my [...]

By: William R. Cumming

William R. Cumming — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 16:35:06 +0000

Actually I posted a somewhat lengthy comment on the “Death of Journalism.” I too find the hard copy version an instinctual and intellectual pleasure. But being in a rural area finally have mostly abandoned hard copy except for library forays and gifts from friends. While the formal rules of blogging have not stabilized clearly you have never in my opinion did what the blogger in the story did. Basically adopt the substance and position of the journalists story without attribution. That to me is just plain theft not just plagarism. I cannot imagine the academic world now when the internet has made it both easy and yet far more difficult to understand how the reality of history and the world (the universe) is evolving. Let’s face it –in the final analysis we all have quirks and prejudices that shine through our writing. Yet there is definitely a pleasure in seeing our thoughts laid out. The question whether there was thinking before language always intrigued me. I think yes but cannot articulate exactly how. I do think that the interactive nature of blogging is a strength as is WAPO and other newspapers allowing comments on articles and opinions to be filed. My hope is that the journalists and the bloggers read my comments, since they are the ones in control so to speak and when I respect them I want to influence them also. But also true that the other comments of readers I find very interesting sometimes and very educational. Being an extensive Sci-Fi reader from 4th through 10th grade the number of stories wherein EARTH had evolved a sort of wired brain utilizing the abilities of all the human race I like to think journalism first, then blogging are evolutionary steps on the way to that endpoint. In fact in many of the stories the Earth’s “Brain” was the reason it was saved from some alien or other destructive force. Sort of a friendlier version of “Forbidden Planet” with Robby the Robot(the real star) and the then young Leslie Neilsen. So here is to evolution without theft of the work of others. Being a mere copyist does not advance the force of humanity in its quests whatever they may be.

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By: William R. Cumming