Comments on: regarding popline. http://blog.infomuse.net/2008/04/05/regarding-popline/ on LIS, grad school, academia, and other random things... Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:22:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Kristina Spurgin http://blog.infomuse.net/2008/04/05/regarding-popline/comment-page-1/#comment-1038 Kristina Spurgin Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:56:13 +0000 http://blog.infomuse.net/?p=74#comment-1038 I still don't understand what anyone thought doing that was going to accomplish. It just made their database look broken, since you could still get to articles with abortion as a title term. But the fact that they thought it was ok to do is appalling. I still don’t understand what anyone thought doing that was going to accomplish. It just made their database look broken, since you could still get to articles with abortion as a title term. But the fact that they thought it was ok to do is appalling.

]]> By: Free Speech » Blog Archive » what is it not? http://blog.infomuse.net/2008/04/05/regarding-popline/comment-page-1/#comment-1035 Free Speech » Blog Archive » what is it not? Sun, 06 Apr 2008 05:29:38 +0000 http://blog.infomuse.net/?p=74#comment-1035 [...] I think it’s important to take a moment to consider the possibilities for abuse inherent in any restriction, even seemingly innocuous noise ordinances. What if somebody decided that “abortion” was such a controversial term that it couldn’t be used as an index term for searching a database? [...] [...] I think it’s important to take a moment to consider the possibilities for abuse inherent in any restriction, even seemingly innocuous noise ordinances. What if somebody decided that “abortion” was such a controversial term that it couldn’t be used as an index term for searching a database? [...]

]]> By: Cristóbal Palmer http://blog.infomuse.net/2008/04/05/regarding-popline/comment-page-1/#comment-1034 Cristóbal Palmer Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:18:29 +0000 http://blog.infomuse.net/?p=74#comment-1034 Thanks for this post. Holy crap that's scary. :/ The ability of the database owners to disappear whole topics, even if only for a brief period followed by a very public stink, is rather upsetting. :( Thanks for this post. Holy crap that’s scary. :/

The ability of the database owners to disappear whole topics, even if only for a brief period followed by a very public stink, is rather upsetting. :(

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