[ExI] commentary by one of ours

[Emlyn]

I do share a love of books with the rest of you, but only because I
grew up in the knowledge dark ages like the rest of you. The format
only makes sense in terms of wads of paper.

Certainly if it's non-fiction, in an abundant networked environment,
you want something entirely different. Wikis seem like the best model
to me, but anything hyperlinky, commentable, fixable by the readers,
mutable, is good.

For narrative fiction, they make some more sense, but still I'd prefer
my information searchable and indexed, containing links, commenting,
etc. Forkable. Mutable.

Books are knowledge prisons from out of the long ages of ignorance.

2011/12/5 Darren Greer <darren.greer3 at gmail.com>:
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> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Mike Dougherty <msd001 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I consider it valuable feedback/education on that difference.
>> Considering Darren has professed to be a writer and also considering
>> the sometimes deplorable state of proof-reading services he may
>> employ, it's better to know about that particular homophone while
>> writing than to hope someone catches it later.  (since it would not be
>> trapped by a spellchecker)
>
>
>
> For a minute in fact I was horribly embarrassed and my face got hot,
> especially as the topic under discussion was that of being a writer, of
> which, as you say, I profess to be. Then I got thinking about it, and
> realized I don't think I'd ever written the cliche "piqued my interest"
> before and I actually had never considered the difference. I make tons of
> errors of this sort in manuscripts which copy-editors have to catch and
> sometimes they don't. So I decided to be grateful for the heads-up, rather
> than embarrassed about it. If you find something that you like doing, and
> that you are good at it, I find that you've got keep a student mentality
> about it all your life or you ossify.
>
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