Now might be a very good time to invent a new language to which this wouldn’t easily apply, as it’s obviously headed towards royalty micro-payments to “publishers.”
OH HAI! CAN HAZ BAD FELN 4 ISTC?
I have to admire the crafty little spammers who attempt to get link love from me by submitting comments that praise my erudition (and then attempt to link-lure me to ads for Viagra, porn, and fake Rolex watches). My favorite today started, “Author, you genius!” and then tried the usual end-run. It must work on someone, or else they wouldn’t keep trying it, hmm?
Well, we don’t have an economics of information class here at the moment, for which I am actually very grateful, for some of the most interesting things in that arena are appearing on blogs like that of confused of calcutta, and how would a course reading list full of blog links look in my all-important tenure packet? Not very professorial, I’m afraid….
