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Why is everyone in such a rush?
Walk into any bookstore, and you'll see how to Teach Yourself Java
in 24 Hours alongside endless variations offering to teach C,
SQL, Ruby, Algorithms, and so on in a few days or hours.
The Amazon advanced search for [title: teach,
yourself, hours, since: 2000 and found 512 such books. Of the top ten, nine are programming books (the other is about bookkeeping). Similar results come from replacing "teach yourself" with "learn" or "hours" with "days."
The conclusion is that either people are in a big rush to learn
about programming, or that programming is somehow fabulously easier to
learn than anything else.
Felleisen et al.
give a nod to this trend in their book How to Design Programs, when they say
"Bad programming is easy. Idiots can learn it in 21 days,
even if they are dummies." The Abtruse Goose comic also had their take.
Let's analyze what a title like Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours
could mean:
Teach Yourself: In 24 hours you won't have time to write several
significant programs, and learn from your successes and failures with
them. You won't have time to work with an experienced programmer and
understand what it is like to live in a C++ environment. In short, you
won't have time to learn much. So the book can only be talking about a
superficial familiarity, not a deep understanding. As Alexander Pope said,
a little learning is a dangerous thing.C++: In 24 hours you might be able to learn some of the syntax of
C++ (if you already know another language), but you couldn't
learn much about how to use the language. In short, if you were, say, a
Basic programmer, you could learn to write programs in the style of
Basic using C++ syntax, but you couldn't learn what C++ is
actually good (and bad) for. So what's the point? Alan
Perlis once said: "A language that doesn't affect the way you
think about programming, is not worth knowing". One possible point is
that you have to learn a tiny bit of C++ (or more likely, something
like JavaScript or Processing) because you need to interface with an
existing tool to accomplish a specific task. But then you're not
learning how to program; you're learning to accomplish that task.in 24 Hours: Unfortunately, this is not enough, as the next
section shows.
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
Researchers (Bloom
(1985), Bryan & Harter (1899), Hayes
(1989), Simmon & Chase (1973)) have shown it
takes about ten years to develop expertise in any of a wide variety of
areas, including chess playing, music composition, telegraph
operation, painting, piano playing, swimming, tennis, and research in
neuropsychology and topology. The key is deliberative
practice: not just doing it again and again, but challenging yourself
with a task that is just beyond your current ability, trying it,
analyzing your performance while and after doing it, and correcting
any mistakes. Then repeat. And repeat again. There appear to be no
real shortcuts: even Mozart, who was a musical prodigy at age 4, took
13 more years before he began to produce world-class music. In
another genre, the Beatles seemed to burst onto the scene with a
string of #1 hits and an appearance on the Ed Sullivan show in 1964.
But they had been playing small clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg since
1957, and while they had mass appeal early on, their first great
critical success, Sgt. Peppers, was released in 1967.
Malcolm
Gladwell has popularized the idea, although he concentrates on 10,000 hours, not 10 years.
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) had another metric: "Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst." (He didn't
anticipate that with digital cameras, some people can reach that mark in a week.)
True expertise may take a lifetime:
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) said "Excellence in any department can be
attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at
a lesser price." And Chaucer (1340-1400) complained "the lyf so short, the craft
so long to lerne." Hippocrates (c. 400BC) is known for the excerpt "ars longa,
vita brevis", which is part of the longer quotation "Ars longa, vita
brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium
difficile", which in English renders as "Life is short, [the] craft
long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment
difficult."
Of course, no single number can be the final answer: it doesn't seem reasonable
to assume that all skills (e.g., programming, chess playing, checkers playing, and music playing)
could all require exactly the same amount of time to master, nor that all people
will take exactly the same amount of time. As
Prof.
K. Anders Ericsson puts it, "In most domains it's remarkable how much time even the most
talented individuals need in order to reach the highest levels of performance. The 10,000 hour number just gives you a sense that we're talking years of 10 to 20 hours a week which those who some people would argue are the most innately talented individuals still need to get to the highest level."
So You Want to be a Programmer
Here's my recipe for programming success:
Get interested in programming, and do some because it is fun. Make sure
that it keeps being enough fun so that you will be willing to put in your ten years/10,000 hours. Program. The best kind of learning is learning
by doing. To put it more technically, "the maximal level of
performance for individuals in a given domain is not attained
automatically as a function of extended experience, but the level of
performance can be increased even by highly experienced individuals as
a result of deliberate efforts to improve." (p. 366)
and "the most effective learning requires a well-defined task with an
appropriate difficulty level for the particular individual,
informative feedback, and opportunities for repetition and corrections
of errors." (p. 20-21) The book
Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics, and Culture in Everyday
Life is an interesting
reference for this viewpoint. Talk with other programmers; read other programs. This is more important
than any book or training course. If you want, put in four years at a college (or more at a
graduate school). This will give you access to some jobs that require
credentials, and it will give you a deeper understanding of the field,
but if you don't enjoy school, you can (with some dedication) get
similar experience on your own or on the job. In any case, book learning alone won't
be enough. "Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert
programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make
somebody an expert painter" says Eric Raymond, author of The New
Hacker's Dictionary. One of the best programmers I ever hired had
only a High School degree; he's produced a lot of great software, has his own news group, and made enough in stock options to buy his own nightclub. Work on projects with other programmers. Be the best programmer
on some projects; be the worst on some others. When you're the best,
you get to test your abilities to lead a project, and to inspire
others with your vision. When you're the worst, you learn what the
masters do, and you learn what they don't like to do (because they
make you do it for them). Work on projects after other programmers.
Understand a program written by someone else. See what it takes to
understand and fix it when the original programmers are not
around. Think about how to design your programs to make it easier for
those who will maintain them after you. Learn at least a half dozen programming languages. Include one
language that emphasizes class abstractions (like Java or C++), one that
emphasizes functional abstraction (like Lisp or ML or Haskell), one
that supports syntactic abstraction (like Lisp), one
that supports declarative specifications (like Prolog or C++
templates), and
one that emphasizes parallelism (like Clojure or Go). Remember that there is a "computer" in "computer science". Know
how long it takes your computer to execute an instruction, fetch a
word from memory (with and without a cache miss), read consecutive words from disk, and seek to a new location on disk. (Answers here.) Get involved in a language
standardization effort. It could be the ANSI C++ committee, or it
could be deciding if your local coding style will have 2 or 4 space
indentation levels. Either way, you learn about what other people
like in a language, how deeply they feel so, and perhaps even a little
about why they feel so. Have the good sense to get off the language standardization effort as
quickly as possible.
With all that in mind, its questionable how far you can get just by
book learning. Before my first child was born, I read all the How
To books, and still felt like a clueless novice. 30 Months later,
when my second child was due, did I go back to the books for a
refresher? No. Instead, I relied on my personal experience, which
turned out to be far more useful and reassuring
to me than the thousands of pages written
by experts.
Fred Brooks, in his essay No Silver Bullet
identified a three-part plan for finding great
software designers:
Systematically identify top designers as early as possible.Assign a career mentor to be responsible for the development of the prospect and carefully keep a career file.Provide opportunities for growing designers to interact and stimulate each other.
This assumes that some people already have the qualities necessary for
being a great designer; the job is to properly coax them along. Alan
Perlis put it more succinctly: "Everyone can be taught to sculpt:
Michelangelo would have had to be taught how not to. So it is with the
great programmers". Perlis is saying that the greats have some
internal quality that transcends their training. But where does the
quality come from? Is it innate? Or do they develop it through
diligence? As Auguste Gusteau (the fictional chef in
Ratatouille) puts it, "anyone can cook, but only the fearless
can be great." I think of it more as willingness to devote a large
portion of one's life to deliberative practice. But maybe
fearless is a way to summarize that. Or, as Gusteau's critic,
Anton Ego, says: "Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great
artist can come from anywhere."
So go ahead and buy that Java/Ruby/Javascript/PHP book; you'll
probably get some use out of it. But you won't change your life, or
your real overall expertise as a programmer in 24 hours or 21 days.
How about working hard to continually improve over 24 months?
Well, now you're starting to get somewhere...
References
Bloom, Benjamin (ed.) Developing Talent in Young People, Ballantine, 1985.
Brooks, Fred, No Silver Bullets, IEEE Computer, vol. 20, no. 4, 1987, p. 10-19.
Bryan, W.L. & Harter, N. "Studies on the telegraphic language:
The acquisition of a hierarchy of habits. Psychology Review,
1899, 8, 345-375
Hayes, John R., Complete Problem Solver Lawrence Erlbaum, 1989.
Chase, William G. & Simon, Herbert A.
"Perception in Chess"
Cognitive Psychology, 1973, 4, 55-81.
Lave, Jean, Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics, and Culture in Everyday
Life, Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Answers
Approximate timing for various operations on a typical PC:
execute typical instruction 1/1,000,000,000 sec = 1 nanosec
fetch from L1 cache memory 0.5 nanosec
branch misprediction 5 nanosec
fetch from L2 cache memory 7 nanosec
Mutex lock/unlock 25 nanosec
fetch from main memory 100 nanosec
send 2K bytes over 1Gbps network 20,000 nanosec
read 1MB sequentially from memory 250,000 nanosec
fetch from new disk location (seek) 8,000,000 nanosec
read 1MB sequentially from disk 20,000,000 nanosec
send packet US to Europe and back 150 milliseconds = 150,000,000 nanosec
Appendix: Language Choice
Several people have asked what programming language they should learn first.
There is no one answer, but consider these points:
Use your friends. When asked "what operating system should
I use, Windows, Unix, or Mac?", my answer is usually: "use whatever
your friends use." The advantage you get from learning from your
friends will offset any intrinsic difference between OS, or
between programming languages. Also consider your future friends:
the community of programmers that you will be a part of if you
continue. Does your chosen language have a large growing community
or a small dying one? Are there books, web sites, and online forums
to get answers from? Do you like the people in those forums?
Keep it simple. Programming languages such as C++
and Java are designed for professional development by large teams of
experienced programmers who are concerned about the run-time efficiency of
their code.
As a result, these languages have complicated parts designed for these circumstances.
You're concerned with learning to program. You don't need that complication.
You want a language that was designed to be easy to learn and remember by a
single new programmer.
Play. Which way would you rather learn to play the piano: the
normal, interactive way, in which you hear each note as soon as you hit a key,
or "batch" mode, in which you only hear the notes after you finish a whole song?
Clearly, interactive mode makes learning easier for the piano, and also for
programming. Insist on a language with an interactive mode and use it.
Given these criteria, my recommendations for a first programming
language would be Python or
Scheme.
Another choice is Javascript, not because it is perfectly well-designed for beginners,
but because there are so many online tutorials for it, such as
Khan Academy's tutorial.
But your
circumstances may vary, and there are other good choices. If your
age is a single-digit, you might prefer
Alice or Squeak
or Blockly (older learners might also enjoy these). The important
thing is that you choose and get started.
Appendix: Books and Other Resources
Several people have asked what books and web pages they should learn
from. I repeat that "book learning alone won't be enough" but I can
recommend the following:
Scheme: Structure and
Interpretation of Computer Programs (Abelson & Sussman) is
probably the best introduction to computer science, and it does
teach programming as a way of understanding the computer science.
You can see online videos of lectures on this book, as well as the complete text online. The book is
challenging and will weed out some people who perhaps could be
successful with another approach.
Scheme:
How to
Design Programs (Felleisen et al.) is one of the best books
on how to actually design programs in an elegant and functional way.
Python:
Python Programming:
An Intro to CS (Zelle) is a good introduction using Python.
Python: Several
online tutorials
are available at Python.org.
Oz: Concepts,
Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (Van Roy & Haridi)
is seen by some as the modern-day successor to Abelson & Sussman.
It is a tour through the big ideas of programming, covering a wider
range than Abelson & Sussman while being perhaps easier to read and
follow. It uses a language, Oz, that is not widely known but serves as
a basis for learning other languages.
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Notes
T. Capey points out that the Complete
Problem Solver page on Amazon now has the "Teach Yourself
Bengali in 21 days" and "Teach Yourself Grammar and Style" books under the
"Customers who shopped for this item also shopped for these items"
section. I guess that a large portion of the people who look at that
book are coming from this page.
Thanks to Ross Cohen for help with Hippocrates.
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23,453 | Sam_Odio | 2007-05-20T21:50:09 | $6bn for aQuantive? Did Microsoft "loose its head?" | null | http://gigaom.com/2007/05/20/did-microsoft-go-lose-it-head-over-aquantive/ | 3 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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23,460 | gibsonf1 | 2007-05-20T22:21:53 | Apple Gets FCC Approval for iPhone | null | http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,273780,00.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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23,488 | gibsonf1 | 2007-05-21T00:21:10 | Woz magic of electronics and computers | null | http://news.com.com/Woz+magic+of+electronics+and+computers/2100-1008_3-6185152.html?tag=nefd.lede | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
23,489 | gibsonf1 | 2007-05-21T00:26:02 | All my contexts are belong to Maker Faire | null | http://news.com.com/All+my+contexts+are+belong+to+Maker+Faire/2100-1008_3-6185147.html?tag=nefd.top | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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23,491 | gibsonf1 | 2007-05-21T00:27:58 | Data mining goes mainstream | null | http://news.com.com/Data+mining+goes+mainstream/2100-1024_3-6185174.html?tag=nefd.top | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | no_article | null | null | null | null | 2024-11-08T16:32:48 | null | train |
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23,499 | reitzensteinm | 2007-05-21T01:19:48 | Newspapers, TV and the Net - It's convergence time | null | http://www.blogmaverick.com/2007/05/20/newspapers-tv-and-the-net-its-convergence-time/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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23,513 | ngrochal | 2007-05-21T02:28:44 | So...Google admits they've been watching you! | null | http://www.routermods.com/2007/02/21/so-google-admits-theyve-been-watching-you/ | 4 | 2 | [
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23,527 | Readmore | 2007-05-21T03:50:42 | Google licenses robotic car to map cities! What? | null | http://venturebeat.com/2007/05/19/google-licenses-stanford-robotic-car-technology-for-3d-maps/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | Google licenses Stanford robotic car technology for 3D maps | 2007-05-19T16:59:24+00:00 | Matt Marshall |
Google has licensed the sensing technology developed by a team of Stanford University students that enabled Stanley, a robotic car, to win a 131 mile race through the Mojave Desert last year.
The Mercury News’ Elise Ackerman reports that Google will use the sensing technology — which lets the car map out the terrain in front of it so that it can steer and change gears without a person at the wheel — to map out photo-realistic 3-D versions of cities around the world. The move was made, Ackerman suggests, to help Google regain ground it has lost to Microsoft’s 3-D mapping application known as Virtual Earth.
Ackerman does not clearly explain what is so special about the Stanley technology, presumably because that is the secret sauce, and Google officials wouldn’t tell her. Or perhaps Google wanted mainly to hire Sebastian Thrun (pictured above), leader of the Stanley racing team, who will work art-time at Google under the arrangement, and the licensing will let him continue his work under Google’s aegis.
Microsoft’s Virtual Earth, available through the 3-D link on maps.live.com uses a mixture of aerial photography, algorithms and computational power to create replicas of more than 50 cities.
Ackerman says more details about the Google-Stanley deal will be released at the Where 2.0 conference May 29 and 30.
(Inset photo courtesy: Stanford News)
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23,531 | mhidalgo | 2007-05-21T04:29:07 | The $85 computer | null | http://www.forbes.com/2007/05/16/cheap-pc-computer-tech-cx_ag_0516cheappc.html | 1 | 1 | [
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] | null | null | no_error | The $85 Computer | 2007-05-16T11:20:00-04:00 | Andy Greenberg |
In its attempts to sell you ever-more expensive PCs, the computer industry is constantly producing faster, smaller and sexier machines. That's great for gamers, technophiles and
Dell
shareholders. But what about the rest of us? What do we get from all the bells and whistles piled into today's PCs?
Not enough to justify the $1,000 price tag the industry hopes we'll go for. The average consumer spends just $741 on a PC today, compared with $912 three years ago, according to the Consumer Electronics Association--even though advances in technology mean new machines have more processing power, memory and other features.
In fact, many consumers don't need to upgrade. A bare-bones computer suits them just fine--and these days, they can buy them for as little as $85.
In Pictures: Super-Cheap PCs
That minuscule price is attached to Norhtec's Microclient JrSX, a desktop PC the size of a large novel. The Microclient is no Powerbook; it has only 128 megabytes of RAM and a 300-megahertz processor. And instead of a hard drive, it's designed to store data on flash cards. Thailand-based Norhtec's founder, Michael Barnes, says he's already sold thousands of the machines.
Most of those customers have been businesses: One group of
McDonald's
restaurants bought 1,200 to set up their wi-fi networks, he says, and a Canadian diamond-mining Arctic expedition installed the space-saving computers in its planes. But the low cost also appeals to consumers who are tired of paying for features they don't need. Shoppers can buy the machines directly from the company's Web site, Norhtec.com.
"Year after year, the entry-level computer costs around $495," Barnes says. "The newest computers always offer more speed and better graphics and are really made for game users. But the people who buy our computers want small, inexpensive machines that don't break down."
And as low, low-end PCs get even smaller and cheaper, Barnes predicts they'll become more popular. "We believe we'll see a real explosion when computers get down to below $80," he says.
The machines have their drawbacks. The MicroClient JrSX is too small to fit a CD player, and forget about Apple's
iTunes: The Microclient doesn't even offer audio. Nor will it play "Halo" or any other game that would overwhelm the machine's limited storage. And programs that use a lot of memory, like
Adobe
Photoshop, are probably too much for the tiny PC.
Norhtec's prices also don't include a keyboard, mouse or monitor, which will run at least $100. But not a lot more:
Amazon.com
, for instance, sells a Philips 107E71 15-inch monitor for $49.99, a Belkin mouse for $3.95 and a Logitech keyboard for $9.58. The site also sells an external CD-ROM drive from Procom for $9.85, and for those looking to soup up their storage capacity, Tigerdirect.com sells a refurbished 80-gigabyte Seagate hard drive for $54.97.
Almost all those components are included, however, in a machine being developed by Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child program, which promises a fully equipped laptop for a projected $176. OLPC claims that its machines will boast screens with four times the resolution of a normal laptop, a 12-hour battery life, a waterproof and fall-proof shell, and wi-fi reception that's 50% better than any computer on the market.
The OLPC laptop was designed for poor children in the developing world. But they are likely to end up in the U.S. as well, where the program plans to distribute them to youngsters in as many as 19 U.S. states. And while the project was created out of philanthropic impulses, the OLPC now sees a consumer market for their machines.
"The industry is going to have to change the way it does things," says Walter Bender, OLPC's president of software and content. "Computing doesn't have to be the way it's been defined. It can be a lot lighter, a lot friendlier and a lot less expensive."
The OLPC isn't the first group to make a small, cheap and rugged PC. Data Evolution's decTOP, a brick-sized, low-power-consuming desktop, offers 128 megabytes of RAM and a 10-gigabyte hard drive that will sell for between $150 and $180. Like the OLPC laptop, the decTOP's innovations come out of a drive to bring computers and the Internet to rural Africa and Asia: Data Evolution acquired the machine's hardware from
Advanced Micro Devices
, whose "50x15" program seeks to take 50% of the world's population online by 2015.
Data Evolution Chief Executive Robert Sowah shares that goal, but he also sees the opportunity to equip Americans with PCs that suit their needs, which he says are almost always overserved by expensive modern machines. He plans to sell the decTOP in major retail stores like
Best Buy
and
Circuit City
starting this summer.
"Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet and e-mail," Sowah says. "That's what 90% of people do with computers, and they don't need these massive chips with oodles of storage and memory."
One reason that a machine like the decTOP can meet the needs of so many users is that the basic functions that Sowah lists are increasingly rolled together into a single, online package. Web services like
Google
Apps, which allows users to edit documents, spreadsheets and presentations online, take the workload off an individual's machine and put it instead on Google's massive servers. Data is stored and numbers are crunched online; the user's machine need only be a window to the increasingly powerful Web.
Beyond that trend, Sowah says that the movement toward cheaper, more practical machines is about computing technology meeting the needs of people, instead of vice versa.
"In the past, it's always been technology pushing desire, and users asking, 'What can we do with this?'" he says. "Now, for once, desire is pushing technology."
In Pictures: Super-Cheap PCs
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23,682 | danw | 2007-05-21T19:15:11 | Sometimes Threadless surprises me | null | http://www.threadless.com/product/842/Sacrifice | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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23,709 | imer111 | 2007-05-21T21:32:51 | Latest Motgage News - Updated Every Hour | null | http://anonlinemortgage.com | 1 | -1 | null | null | true | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
23,710 | startupdaze | 2007-05-21T21:38:25 | Submission for Digg API Visualization Contest-Diggquarium | null | http://startupdaze.com/post/2232529 | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
23,711 | far33d | 2007-05-21T21:44:51 | To the editor: Please see wiki | null | http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/05/21/to-the-editor-please-see-wiki/ | 1 | 1 | [
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] | null | null | missing_parsing | To the Editor: Please See Wiki | 1179773915 | Mike Nizza |
Our colleagues on the opinion side of The New York Times receive about 1,000 letters a day, many seeking to address remarks that “should not be suffered to pass unnoticed,”
as one put it in 1851.
Every day, there’s space for 15, which is why the letters editor once offered advice to writers
seeking to increase the odds of publication:
“Letters should be kept to about 150 words.”
“Writing by the next day is a good idea.”
“They should be exclusive to The Times.”
So far, The Times has not published any letters regarding Mark Helprin’s Op-Ed,
titled “A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn’t Its Copyright?” After all, it was in Sunday’s Times.
Elsewhere, there’s a rebuttal that couldn’t be more different than the average letter. While certainly timely, “Against perpetual copyright”
weighs in at more than 40 times the recommended letter length, and is written by more than a dozen people.
Lawrence Lessig, left. (Photo: Heidi Schumann for The New York Times)
Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford University law professor, started it all at 12:30 p.m. Pacific time on Sunday in a blog post about the “scores of e-mails” demanding that he
respond to the Op-Ed column.
He was the obvious choice as chairman of Creative Commons, which “is meant to offer an alternative to the traditional copyright system of ‘all rights reserved,’ ” The Times explained.
Backers say that “creativity and the sharing of knowledge in the Internet age” is impeded by the traditional copyrights.
Mr. Lessig was also someone who had fought that side of the copyright fight many times before, which may be why he had a different idea. “Why don’t you write the reply instead,” he replied.
A reader shot back with one reason: “Because it’s very, very unlikely the New York Times would consider me worthy of space on the Op-Ed page?”
But the Op-Ed Page was not the target of this effort, at least not in its current form. Mr. Lessig wanted the rebuttal to be formed on his Web site by people working collaboratively with wiki software, which allows
anyone to make changes to the content.
If it worked, he would pull off an interesting feat: Another copyright battle would be fought without doing any of the work himself. Indeed, it would be done by believers in a movement that he helped start, with material
that he wrote and then allowed anyone to reuse, as long as they credited him (which they did, twice).
Soon, a user using the name Kenthorvath created the beginnings of the page with “Talking points, and ideas to get things started…”
With over 500 edits since then, the collaboration has grown to more than 6,000 words of text — almost six times as long as Mr. Helprin’s Op-Ed essay.
Of course, longer is not always better. The point is that these writers were thorough — there’s even a section for “Other Points Against Helprin”
with more than two dozen bullet points.
Sending more writers into the scrum was the popular Web site Boing Boing, which linked to the wiki rebuttal with a simple call: “Go help make it better.”
After all, the rebuttal is still calling itself a “work in progress,” albeit one that’s out there for all to read and
compare with the column that inspired it.
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23,720 | Tichy | 2007-05-21T22:25:28 | How to become rich | null | http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2007/05/how-to-become-rich.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
23,721 | shara | 2007-05-21T22:32:48 | Resources for Would-Be Entrepreneurs | null | http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2007/05/20/resources-for-would-be-entrepreneurs/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
23,724 | henning | 2007-05-21T22:40:12 | Interesting new marketing technique from 37Signals: testimonial videos that don't sound phony/cheesy | null | http://www.basecamphq.com/customers/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
23,726 | bootload | 2007-05-21T22:45:43 | Best business books: Jim Buckmaster's picks | null | http://www.usnews.com/usnews/biztech/articles/070513/21best.buckmaster.htm | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
23,728 | bootload | 2007-05-21T22:50:12 | Trends of online mapping | null | http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/05/trends_of_onlin.html | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
23,734 | mattjaynes | 2007-05-21T23:41:47 | The technology of OLPC's hundred dollar laptop | null | http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/431-the-technology-of-olpcs-hundred-dollar-laptop | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | train |
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