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| ... must at least be identifiable |
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| Here's a sample graphic, taken from last week's IAM Business Report on Billion-dollar Start-ups |
Recent publications of note. "New banknotes
not on the money - iwi", by Laura Bootham on Radio New Zealand News, reports on what, to this Kat at any rate, looks
like the first recorded instance of the attribution of items of traditional
culture to the wrong Māori tribe. The IP lawyers have been called in
(Katpat to Jonathan Barrett for the link). Protection of traditional knowledge
other than through intellectual property is the theme of long-time campaigner
and former Indian patent examiner R. S.
Praveen Raj, in "No Need Of IPRs For Protecting Traditional
Knowledge", hosted by Intellectual Property Watch, here.
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Jeremy, I hope you might reconsider the decision not to use a string / threaded style of comment posting, at least for an experimental period. I can't speak for how good the Blogger solution might be, but generally I think the issues are:
ReplyDelete1. In longer threads, there's a real difficulty to make clear what you are replying to. Often this means copying and pasting text from a post some distance away, and then grappling with HTML tags (e.g. italics) to try to make clear that it is quoted text. Some posters might not have the technical knowledge to do this, but even for those of us that do, it's a pain. A good threaded solution can reduce the need for this, and make arguments much easier for a reader to follow.
2. While you're right that sometimes people reply to several different posts at the same time, a threaded presentation style might persuade them to reply to each post individually, so that the replies then appear more logically as direct responses. Where that's not feasible, the poster can simply put his multiple response beneath all other comments, as at present. So this isn't really a downside.
3. In many cases IPKat threads are quite short. For these, a threaded solution won't make much difference, but wouldn't do any harm either.
In summary, I think a threaded solution has strong advantages, and where those don't apply nothing is lost.
By the way, I suspect that grappling with HTML tags might be the reason some posters' comments disappear into the ether and are never seen again. If you get the HTML syntax wrong, Blogger is rather unhelpful. After you click "Publish", it puts you at the top of the list of comments. But the syntax error message telling you that your comment has not been accepted is down at the bottom. In a long thread, you only notice it if you scroll down a long way. It's quite easy to miss it and assume that your message is in the moderation queue. Then later on you wonder why it hasn't appeared.