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21 Jun 07

Gorman, redux: The Siren Song of the Internet. Many-to-Many:

  • Siren Song of the Internet contains a curious omission and a basic
    misunderstanding. The omission is part of his defense of the Luddites; the
    misunderstanding is about the value of paper and the nature of e-books.

Old Revolutions Good, New Revolutions Bad: A Response to Gorman. Many-to-Many:

  • Encyclopedia Britannica has started a Web 2.0
    Forum    , where they are hosting a conversation going on around a set of posts
    by Michael Gorman. The first post, in two parts, is titled Web
    2.0: The Sleep of Reason Brings Forth Monsters    , and is a defense of the
    print culture against alteration by digital technologies.

Web 2.0: The Sleep of Reason, Part II - Britannica Blog

  • This “wisdom of the crowds” and “hive mind” mentality is a direct assault on
    the tradition of individualism in scholarship that has been paramount in Western
    societies at least since the Renaissance and, before then, can be seen in the
    Church Fathers and the Greek philosophers, among others.

Web 2.0: The Sleep of Reason, Part I - Britannica Blog

  • the difference between the print world of scholarly and educational publishing
    and the often-anarchic world of the Internet. The
    difference is in the authenticity and fixity of the former (that its creator is
    reputable and it is what it says it is), the expertise that has given it
    credibility, and the scholarly apparatus that makes the recorded knowledge
    accessible on the one hand and the lack of authenticity, expertise, and complex
    finding aids in the latter.
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