File under "terrible ideas" MT @NewYorker: Footnotes vanishing from books & appear online instead. http://nyr.kr/1xlXxTI ”
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@aaronbcowan Turabian is designed to be efficient and practical, but does it still fulfill its purpose in the most effective away? -
@BradyCrytzer also, the Internet is only 25 yrs old. Will that website w/footnotes still be there when reading the book 40 yrs from now? -
@aaronbcowan I think its safe to say that a companion website with notes is an attempt to cut down on printing costs. -
@BradyCrytzer right - so money is driving the creation of subpar, less valuable scholarship. Cart before the horse, tails and dogs, etc. -
@aaronbcowan the days of plenty for historical research are gone. Look at how many of our historic sites have been untouched since the 1960s -
@BradyCrytzer but notes aren't a luxury. Also, historians have been saying the discipline is dying for 100 years. it will evolve & continue -
@aaronbcowan seriously though tenure track positions are like an endangered species. What's the average for adjunct-to-tenure now? 70%? - 9 more replies
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@NewYorker@nathanheller Soon we'll have a uniform system of citation in the cloud. -
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@NewYorker@nathanheller Some asshole will introduce a cross-referencing algorithm, and an unfathomably snarky Skynet will be born.
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@NewYorker@nathanheller Couldn't agree more.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@NewYorker@nathanheller apropos of that, this book is good: http://www.amazon.com/Invisible-Forms-Guide-Literary-Curiosities/dp/0312266065 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@NewYorker@nathanheller Excellent. The snide notes should be printed in red type.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@NewYorker: Footnotes are starting to vanish from books and appear online instead.@nathanheller explains problemhttp://nyr.kr/1xlXxTIThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@NewYorker@nathanheller I don't think this is a problem, but a way of quick communication,don't you think so?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Stay on page. Save the footnote from the web. "
@NewYorker: Footnotes are starting to vanish from books@nathanheller http://nyr.kr/1xlXxTI ”Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@NewYorker@nathanheller Confronted with a new medium, books are now guilty of being books. They can be no more or less than they are.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@NewYorker@nathanheller But will there be <i>heller</i>...to pay?#italicsThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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