tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7054198.post111455529359024433..comments2023-11-05T03:43:25.425-05:00Comments on It's all good: Notes from Above the 49th ParallelAlicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14200513597599114189noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7054198.post-1115400603842371332005-05-06T13:30:00.000-04:002005-05-06T13:30:00.000-04:00Are you sure that article wasn't in Fortune instea...Are you sure that article wasn't in Fortune instead? <BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,1050065-1,00.html" REL="nofollow">GATES VS. GOOGLE - Search and Destroy</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7054198.post-1114615803896923182005-04-27T11:30:00.000-04:002005-04-27T11:30:00.000-04:00I may be jealous (sounds like a great conference! ...I may be jealous (sounds like a great conference! I know I loved the BCLA conference at Whittier I spoke at, many years ago), but I'd certainly never call you an idiot.<BR/><BR/>Innumeracy is rampant (and encouraged by media usage)--and what I pointed out is really the least harmful form of innumeracy, that is, linguistic symmetry regarding asymmetric number situations (oog, an awful sentence, but heck, it's a blog comment). <BR/><BR/>What's amusing, sort of, is that when I wrote an article on numeracy among librarians in 1995 and used it, in revised form, in <I>Being Analog: Creating Tomorrow's Libraries</I>, I was soundly thrashed for the chapter in one review, with the reviewer flatly asserting that no librarian ever has problems with numeracy. (I never respond to book reviews, not being <I>quite</I> that stupid, but I was sorely tempted to respond that this particular person's track record was all the rebuttal anyone needed.)<BR/><BR/>I may not be fond of the polka dots, but I sure do like the weblog...waltchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09820646745646868292noreply@blogger.com