o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o As a recruiting poster, it's totally Non-Original, so that's a good start, but what do we say next?
When I read Larry' first manifesto, I tried to be polite -- that was always my first mistake at Wikipedia, as it never did anything but prolong the inevitable -- and so I will try a different tact now. First off, we need to drop that "Teaching Granny to Suck Eggs" attitude. The people we are adverting to have been thinking deeply and discursing long about all the issues of communication, community, inquiry, knowledge, wisdom, and yea, verily, even fun, from way before the Usenet got ushered into being. And to be perfectly honest, the egg-sucking textbook that some of us are selling will sound totally unschooled in everthing but the "sucks" part. Enuff for Lesson 1 ... Jon Awbrey o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o inquiry e-lab: http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/ citizendium development forums: http://smf.citizendium.org http://www.textop.org/wiki/index.php?title=User:Jon_Awbrey wikinfo: http://wikinfo.org/wiki.php?title=User:Jon_Awbrey wp review: http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showuser=398 o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
