AHHHhhh: the sound of a grouchy blogger gone hap hap happy: Dan Burk did it. He wrote a great piece, marred only by the number of times i traipsed off to the internet to read more about something to which he'd just referred (texts that behave, mertonian science). Burk raises what for me are currently some of the most fascinating, meaty issues on the internet: value and how we derive it, competition vs. collaboration and which is more productive, and the increasing pre valence of institutional anomie.
I surely hope my occasional lapses into enthusiasm for your assignments garners me some reputational captial. Maybe I'm becoming more idioblastic. Like taking out a license to ensure OPENNESS rather than the far more traditional exclusionary purpose, is it possible this grouchy blogger can still learn something exciting?
Calm down: Benoit-Barne has me hoping that Nikhil agrees with me that my own objet-valise (my never-ending search for an "a") is a boundary object sufficiently ambiguous that he'll just figure "what the hell, just give it to her...". I need a shovel to make it through the rest of this baby. Think I'll dig this ditch offline. Hope SOMEBODY in america is watching basketball....