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At 12:57 PM 6/13/00 +0100, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>David Megginson writes:
> > Note that the common thread running through these examples is a
> > sacrifice in quality in exchange for an increase in quantity -- in other
> > words, a democratization of knowledge.
>
>and is this regarded as a good thing, then? hands up all those who
>think that the truly amazing amount of information on the web is
>balanced by the utter uselessness and wrongness of most of it :-}
I don't agree that only quantity has increased, nor that "uselessness and
wrongness" have always been the result.
In my days as a technical editor, we were forced, over and over, to make
decisions that increased the accuracy and quality of information to the
detriment of their beauty. It used to take 4 to 6 weeks to send
camera-ready copy, get salt prints back, check for (can you be-LEEVE?)
broken type/orphans/widows, review corrections, blah, blah, blah. Being
able to freeze the docs nearer to freezing the code helped our accuracy a
*lot*.
Eve
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