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| DATE | 2017-04-02 |
| FROM | ruben safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout of NYLXS] Good links
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On 04/01/2017 07:11 PM, RSNorman wrote:
>> On 4/1/2017 12:42 PM, RSNorman wrote:
>>> On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 11:46:31 -0400, Oxyaena
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://darwiniana.org/rings.htm
>>>>
>>>> I found this website, darwiniana.org, it has lots of good links to
>>>> articles, papers, and essays on a wide variety of subjects. I strongly
>>>> recommend checking the website out.
>>> >>>
>>> The site does have a lot of good material. The full site is at
>>> http://darwiniana.org/
>>> as opposed to the two special topics you reference: ring species here
>>> and snakes elsewhere.
>>>
>>> The problem is that all of the pages on the site list a 2011 data as
>>> being the latest revision. So it is rather old stuff, now. For
>>> example the page "New Discoveries of Fossil Mammals" has the newest
>>> fossil listed from July 2009 and the "New Discoveries of Fossil
>>> Reptiles" only goes up to January 2011.
>>>
>> Yeah, the problem is the same with a lot of the websites I have
>> encountered over the years. The TO Archive has lost a lot of activity
>> since '06, they don't even post the POTM anymore, the Panda's Thumb has
>> now changed to a new format, Palaeos is still scrounging in the dirt,
>> UCMP hasn't been updated in ages et cetera.
that is a huge problem that I was just discussing on my mailing list on
NYLXS. Since about that time, 2007 or so, there has been a quantum
shift in the access, delivery sources and search engine machinations
which is centralizing content and watering down its quality.
Instead of it being used as a tool for democratization of knowledge, the
opposite is happening.
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