tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11915226.post8895984447052882681..comments2023-09-17T15:17:45.637+01:00Comments on La Terrasse: Don’t Stand Me DownChrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15961928950277859778noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11915226.post-71009541522111718512009-05-24T13:05:37.035+01:002009-05-24T13:05:37.035+01:00I'd drifted too, though I still bought the occasio...I'd drifted too, though I still bought the occasional copy. It still seemed like a good and a righteous thing.<br /><br />The Runciman article is fairly specifically about Wikipedia, rather than the web in general. Most sites don't allow anyone who fancies it to edit them - though of course anyone can make a website.<br /><br />It is remarkable how much of the web is dependent on trust, though. There is no way of knowing that http://everetttrue.blogspot.com/ or http://everetttrue.wordpress.com/ (both very new blogs) were set up by the Everett True who once upon a time edited Plan B - or that the Stephen Pastel who commented on the latter is really the one who runs our favourite record shop.<br /><br />And actually, there is no mention on the official Plan B site (or indeed in this month's issue) of the magazine's closure, so it is entirely possible that this is all a hoax. Possibly perpetrated by The Wire, tired of being accused of having no sense of humour.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15961928950277859778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11915226.post-38593544020265286692009-05-23T20:37:51.396+01:002009-05-23T20:37:51.396+01:00*weeps*
I had drifted away from Plan B of late, b...*weeps*<br /><br />I had drifted away from Plan B of late, but, regardless, it was comforting to know that it was there. Oddly, I tidied my spare room this afternoon, rearranging my old CTCLs and Plan Bs, and moving the ET-tippexed guitar, in the process. <br /><br />I don't know if you've had a look at the latest LRB, but there's a David Runciman piece on Wikipedia in it, which touches on the same points you make regarding the necessity for more solid, written, material. The alternative, apparently, is epistemic circularity, which in turn leads to 'relativist soup', which sounds like the sort of thing Julian Wolfreys might bathe in, and therefore cannot possibly be a Good Thing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com