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Patronizing Patrons Outside Your Own Community vs. Being a Patron Inside Your Own Community

Posted on February 27, 2020 by nmw

One of my good friends (the kind that actually try to push back on the kinds of things I often say) has been hammering away for some time at my attitude – sort of calling it patronizing. I beg to … Continue reading →

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Why the Scientific Method and Open Source are Some of the Best Things Since Sunlight

Posted on June 2, 2017 by nmw

About 100 years ago, some guy named Louis Brandeis apparently said something like: Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Mr. Brandeis was speaking metaphorically (his statement was made in the context of a book titled “Other People’s Money and How the … Continue reading →

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Global Languages (and/or Classification Schemes) + Generic Top Level Domains (TLDs)

Posted on August 12, 2016 by nmw

Whereas traditional classification schemes (such as the Dewey Decimal Classification [DDC] or the Library of Congress classification scheme [LC]) have primarily been oriented towards topical segmentation of publications published by individual persons or corporate entities, I feel it is now … Continue reading →

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Owning Up to “I Own It”

Posted on March 11, 2016 by nmw

In stark contrast to my previous post, let me point out that there are plenty of dictionary-word domains that are extremely successful in the dot com TLD (“top-level domain”). Indeed, some (such as Johnson & Johnson’s baby.com) are so successful, … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: languages

Patronizing Patrons Outside Your Own Community vs. Being a Patron Inside Your Own Community

Why the Scientific Method and Open Source are Some of the Best Things Since Sunlight

Global Languages (and/or Classification Schemes) + Generic Top Level Domains (TLDs)

Owning Up to “I Own It”

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