Comments on: links for 2008-04-23 http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2008/04/23/links-for-2008-04-23 Pontification without all the gritty gravitas Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:34:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Tozier http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2008/04/23/links-for-2008-04-23#comment-52372 Tozier Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:15:09 +0000 http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2008/04/23/links-for-2008-04-23#comment-52372 Now what did I say about the <a href="http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2008/04/06/why-i-feel-so-strongly-about-redundant-digitization" rel="nofollow">myth of authority</a>? Now what did I say about the myth of authority?

]]> By: Edward Vielmetti http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2008/04/23/links-for-2008-04-23#comment-52371 Edward Vielmetti Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:50:44 +0000 http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2008/04/23/links-for-2008-04-23#comment-52371 Is the "blended edition" problem the problem of things showing up on bowdlerized, badly edited, poorly sourced versions? Certainly, that's how it ever was, right - so the fact that there is a crummy 2008 edition of a book is no better and no worse than having a crummy 1908 version of an 1843 book, just a different historical difference. The newly badly edited work is just a modern counterpart. Is the “blended edition” problem the problem of things showing up on bowdlerized, badly edited, poorly sourced versions?

Certainly, that’s how it ever was, right - so the fact that there is a crummy 2008 edition of a book is no better and no worse than having a crummy 1908 version of an 1843 book, just a different historical difference. The newly badly edited work is just a modern counterpart.

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