Stevan Harnad wrote: > On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Stephen Downes wrote: > >> My own preference has always leaned toward personal repositories. > > So did mine -- way back in 1994: > http://www.arl.org/sc/subversive/i-overture-the-subversive-proposal.shtml > > The ensuing years -- and mutating strategies -- came and went, however, > without substantial progress, until mandated IRs finally proved to > work. Time now to apply that lesson, rather then keep waiting for one's > preferences to prevail... Hm. And in the same time period, 100 million people created blogs. I think we're each going with what works, in our own way. -- Stephen -- --- Stephen Downes ~ Researcher ~ National Research Council Canada http://www.downes.ca ~ [log in to unmask] ** Free Learning