Glacial Erratics

I suspect someone else has had this idea, perhaps it is part of what motivates ThreadML, but I'd really like to replace mailing lists with blog-based conversations.    (0000OQ)

The Insight versus Answers thread at BlueOxen is continuing and I feel like I've said some things in the thread that I'd like to remember, or to put it more accurately I would like to have here on my blog so that the identity that it represents (pseudo-me) satisfies my ego more effectively.    (0000OR)

My latest message continues investigating a running theme in the collaboratory: language, thought and development barriers between what could be called reductionists and holists but with slight adjustments of the variables get called lots of other things. DavePollard has a blog entry about the communication difficulties between conservatives and liberals.    (0000OS)

My inner lit crit theorist thinks of this as the conflict between those that desire or need an Author to exist and those that want or need to participate in Authorship.    (0000OT)

I'm well aware that my inner lit crit theorist has no respect for discipline, disciplines or accuracy. That's on purpose and a price I find acceptable.    (0000OU)