At 19.50 1996-03-03 GMT, you wrote:
>At 09:10 PM 29/02/96 GMT, Steve Hitchcock wrote:
>I don't think that Ciolek's thesis is necessarily that print is quality, the
>Web is mediocre. I interpreted Ciolek as saying that the sheer quantity of
>material on the web is in danger of swamping the valuable material that is
>there. Search tools like Alta Vista and Lycos simply assist in finding
>documents with particular terms in them, but don't help with identifying
>quality information.
I've been using the web since 1992 and it seems to me that it is
"self-organising", in the sense that high quality materials in a certain
area are increasingly attracted (linked) to each other, just like
gravitation acts on matter, and given time most interesting material form a
linked universe. This seems to apply to all uses of the web, from
engineering info for scientists to players of Japanese go... This property
of the web, combined with its attractive anarchy, makes the librarian in me
very happy. Organised or not, quality planets are there, and they are growing!
/Frans
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