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Groklaw Will Be Archived At Library of Congress
inode_buddha writes "Groklaw has just received an invitation to be archived in the Library of Congress. In true FOSS style, PJ has decided to ask all the contributors and commenters if they wish to be included, since commenters own the copyrights on their comments. So far, the answer seems to be 'yes,' even for Anonymous Cowards. It's a great honor for Groklaw, but one wonders how many AC's there are, and whether Congress or future researchers would think that they are all one person."
I give my congratulations to PJ. She has done a remarkable service and has proven the Internet's power for citizen advocacy, education and activism. Her success can be measured by just how much her enemies tried to, and in some cases still try to discredit her.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
I contributed several comments to Groklaw but those comments I lifted from a number of Slashdotters. How do I handle that? I just want to do the right thing.
Or just prevent people contributing anonymously unless they give unconditional licence to reuse the prose, and affirm that they both own the content or have been granted permission to use it, or have fair use to it, under current copyright law.
[This comment (c) 2010, Anonymous Coward #1123581321]
This is going to throw off my entire measurement system. What's the size of a Groklaw so I can add that in?
It's a great honor for Groklaw, but one wonders how many AC's there are, and whether Congress or future researchers would think that they are all one person.
I rather doubt many future researchers would think that "Anonymous Coward" is one person, though I can't speak for members of Congress. I can certainly imagine Ted Stevens talking about the tremendously prolific output of A. Coward flowing through a series of tubes....
Proud member of the Weirdo-American community.
... give permission for all my comments to be archived without limitations.
Yours truly,
Anonymous Coward
Now slashdot won't have to worry about that in the unlikely case anybody ever finds its contents useful enough to preserve them for future generations.
... the mummified head of Daryl McBride on a pike.
You toss in a quarter, and the head screams "I'll swallow your code! I'll swallow your code!," whilst you get to whack at it with a chainsaw and plink it with the shotgun out of the Smithsonian Housewares exhibit, and taunt it with Bruce Campbell grimaces.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Perhaps Slashdot should be included. But as a counter example.
I keed I keed. You guys are all great! Except for the ones who aren't.
Actually I got suckered into reading user comments on CNN.com the other day. Makes Slashdot look like powerful scholars who by all rights should be in charge of the playground. Not mopping up the melting snow with their ratty jackets.
Damnit. I really do love you guys!
Does anyone know just how big the Groklaw archive is, anyway? Please answer in units of Libraries of Congresses, or LOCs. And how big will it be, in LOCs, after it gets added? And how big is the actual Library of Congress, in LOCs, both before and after the addition? I'd prefer it in metric LOCs (being Canadian), but I can convert from imperial LOCs if necessary. Thanks.
That's not quite true. Even shortly after the Federalist Papers came out the set of authors was narrowed down quite a bit by intelligent speculation. Hamilton, John Jay and Madison were all named as possible authors (and in fact they were the three authors). After Hamilton died, documents in his possession showed that he was definitely an author and indicated that Madison was also an author. Moreover, there's a fair bit of evidence that when the essays were initially published, many people involved with the publishing and proof-reading knew who the authors were. What is more accurate is that it wasn't until much more modern work by historian Douglass Adair that we had a very good idea which were authored by which of the three. However, even that was well-established by 1970. So the comparison to AC is interesting but not so accurate.
Sorry, and one other important detail: After Hamilton's death, Madison publicly acknowledged that he and Hamilton were primary authors. He also confirmed the then also deceased Jay's authorship and gave a complete list of who wrote which (although Hamilton's personal list had some contradictions with Madison's list).
PJ is notorious for censoring comments that she doesn't like. For instance, any reference to AllParadox will get your comment removed.
It is PJ's blog and she can do what she likes but it isn't nearly as transparent as she would have us believe. It would be nice if they could restore the censored comments and archive those too.
And Google will be charge $1.99 for each access to it.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Reguarding the Anonymous Cowards comment, PJ had disabled new accounts so it is currently impossible for anyone to create one. All new users have no choice BUT to be anonymous. Some also prefer NOT to be anonymous, but their accounts were disabled/deleted because they posted a serious comment that was against popular opinion and labeled a troll. That isn't to say there aren't a lot of trolls there, because there are.