Internet as reference tool review

[Dana Pearson]

FYI

The Internet as reference tool is reviewed in the _Times Literary
Supplement_ February 7, No. 4897.  Giles Foden,  Deputy Literary Editor of
_The Guardian_, rounds up the usual issue suspects:  classification ("lack
of any hierarchy of knowledge"), authority, authenticity, etc. 

"[Internet] ...mostly created organically, from the bottom up -- more like
cell division or the growth of language...full of (in a sense nothing but)
accretions and rough edges... "

"Its natural mode is epiphanic rather than taxonomic.  As such it is a
handmaiden to the creative imagination, bringing strangeness and beauty to
birth; not the key to mythology then, but mythogenesis itself."

Dana Pearson
Director of the Learning Resource Center
Cisco Junior College
dpearson at eastland.net
(817)442-2567 ext. 180