On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 04:45:20PM +0100, Nick Landau wrote:
> It becomes apparent that publishing everything would be of as little
> benefit as publishing nothing, other than to pressure groups who would know
> how to find their way through the material.
I disagree. Publishing everything is clearly of more benefit than
publishing nothing because at least the information is available. The
people who can't understand it are no worse off, but the people who can
are obviously in a better position.
> I have developed the view that it is much more important that there be a
> good publication scheme/hierarchical system/contents management system
> (call it what you like) and that there be a good intro to the material -
This might make more sense if people actually navigated to information, but
we live in the Google age. People go directly to the information they
seek because that's where the search engine takes them.
> because these things should not be for academics but for everyone - and if
> they cannot make use of the material or don't know what material means or
> who to ask, the right is meaningless.
A good introduction is clearly better than no introduction, but I'd
rather have the information available and need to do some more digging
to understand it, than not have the information available at all.
Tony
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