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Stephen Downes wrote: > 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. The interesting question is how many of those 100 million blogs are still maintained? If it's 10 to 15% (and I remember seeing something a while back that indicated that most blogs are abandoned), it raises the interesting question "Do we only ever get 15% in *anything*?" (please, godess, let me be wrong!)