20.390 editing obsolete?

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         Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:57:40 +0000
         From: Lynda Williams <lynda_at_okalrel.org>
         Subject: Re: 20.384 is editing obsolete?

Groping here, Jim, but I think it might be a case of post-publication
editing rather than pre. Easy and fast "first editions". Seminal (vs.
ephemeral) work compiled and collected and edited. Cost benefit
analysis. With so much to produce (assimilate, process) so fast, there
has to be greater tolerance of bugs. But watch out for islands of
stability, like uncontested articles in Wikipedia, that get plenty of
editing. Probably be a case of the 80/20 rule. Twenty per cent of the
material (or less) will get 80 per cent of the attention, over all.

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   Lynda Williams, SF Author (http://www.okalrel.org)
   All About Amel fansite (http://www.allamel.co.nr)
   2005 The Courtesan Prince - Edge SF and Fantasy
   2006 "Harpy" in MYTHSPRING
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