The Web Is Bankrupting Scholarship (TWIBS)I don't know if this topic should be spun off to its own thread or whether it's best to develop it as a variation on the theme that's already in place, so I'll just post a note of it here for now.
QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Mon 27th September 2010, 9:55am)
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Posted by Kelly Martin at Sun Sep 26 11:37:15 2010 {Now Deleted from
“Open†Codex}
I read the opening of first chapter that is published on Joseph's website. If the willful misinterpretation of the fairly transparently malicious conversation between MattCrypto and SlimVirgin that Joseph chooses to highlight there is typical of the analysis Joseph makes in this work, then it should indeed rise to stand as an exemplar of the sort of bankrupt scholarship that Wikipedia has come to be known for.
I think the phrase “Bankrupt Scholarship†hits the mark so perfectly that I have in mind abstracting it from the present case and making a Meta*Theme out of it. In all fairness, we can hardly pin too much blame on Joseph Reagle's latest offering, since he is simply following in the well-trod ruts of what has become a cottage industry genre of clueless writings.
So let us ask the Big Picture Question — What are the causes of this Bankruptcy?
Jon Awbrey