Eric

As for YOUR illness–oops, obsession–with the “real” Yankees.

I promise not to hold such a heinous disease against you either. 🙂

Thanks for the input–I appreciate it.

As for your illness–oops, obsession–with the New York Yankees, I promise not to hold such a heinous disease against you. 🙂

Eric

In terms of peer review or editing, proofing. We can think larger here. Web publishing isn’t limited to do-it-yourself. Picture online publishers following the same conventions as print. Brings to mind some revenue possibilities, too.

As a side note, don’t be too smug about quality in print. Even the major houses produce fairly crappy work. Spelling and factual errors, bloated writing, poor structure, grammar, and flow, weak scholarship suggested by feeble footnoting (or the lack). You know what I mean. How many times do you shake your head while reading, asking “who proofed this”?

I too love paper books. Had to build an addition to hold the overflow.

The system takes on a life of its own. The system geeks make the money and the inputers are supposed to bust their buns feeding the beast. It’s an aspect of the compensation issue, along with just how much time and energy you divert into shoveling electrons instead of doing what you profess.

Computers were supposed to get us to all go paperless and have done the opposite; creating a greater appetite for expression. Computers were supposed to make us more efficient in the workplace; but they’ve created a glut of interfaces that are counterproductive to individual performance as you weed your way through 20 messages for every one you actually want and need.

Lots of unresolved issues in the new age ;).