I appear to be misquoted and didn't say that which is below. It was Fytton
Rowland, if I recall correctly. I entirely agree with Frans about the role
of links in binding high-quality materials on the Web, which brings me
neatly to the Open Journal project.....
Steve Hitchcock
>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.
>/Frans
Steve Hitchcock, Open Journal Project,
Department of Electronics and Computer Science
Southampton University, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
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