Expert Systems (Was: Re[2]: Rageboy on Intranets)

[Clifford Urr]

     Hey Chris, I didn't know you were a subscriber to this list (and 
     you're not even a librarian!) For those who want to look at Chris's 
     more "serious" writings, you might want to check a number of articles 
     he wrote on expert systems. (Hint: he's not all that crazy about the 
     machine variety). 

        Cliff Urr, Senior Manager, Information Services
        2277 Research Blvd. MS-2A
        Rockville, MD 2050
        1-301-519-5828
        curr at aspensys.com

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Subject: Re: Rageboy on Intranets
Author:  clocke at panix.com at SMTPINET
Date:    6/19/97 2:16 PM


At 10:08 AM 6/19/97 EST, Clifford Urr <curr at smtpinet.aspensys.com> wrote: 
>     For those who have not encountered him or his writings, Chris Locke 
>     (aka "Rageboy") has some very, very interesting things to say about 
>     many facets of IT and the Internet that I think would strongly 
>     resonate with librarians doing web work. Below is a recent copy of his 
>     newsletter...
     
[snip]
     
wow, I am floored that Cliff posted this, and hope none of you 
were too offended by my flagrant breaches of the Communications 
Decency Act.  In fact, I've already received a flood of new 
subscriptions to Entropy Gradient Reversals from readers of this 
list.  many thanks. 
     
Some of my more... uh, serious work relating to online document 
management and librarians can be found at my "other" site:
     
   http://www.panix.com/~clocke 
     
I wrote many such "serious" articles until I realized no one 
really gave much of a crap.  EGR represented my decision to say 
the same sorts of things, but more in the vein of, say, a Howard 
Stern (not that I'm a fan, particularly).  The web-shock-jock 
approach has been far more effective, as today EGR has over 1200 
enthusiastic subscribers.  Many online professionals seem to 
recognize their own condition well reflected in RageBoy's 
utterly unreasonable rhetoric.  
     
anyway, some pointers to some non-EGR pieces I thought y'all 
might find of interest:  
     
    Nets and Mirrors: How the Internet Both Affects and Reflects the 
    Global Economy
       (deja vu all over again -- a talk at The Aspen Institute, October 1995) 
       http://www.panix.com/~clocke/mirrors.html
     
    Common Sense or Superior Ignorance? 
       (an article in IEEE Expert slamming AI and natural language 
       processing as a replacement for human intelligence in matters 
       linguistic - 1990)
       http://www.panix.com/~clocke/ieee.html
     
    Making Knowledge Pay 
       (SGML/internet cover story in BYTE, June 1992) 
       http://www.panix.com/~clocke/whoknows.html
     
    The Dark Side of Document Image Processing 
       (another BYTE article that argued the value of librarians over 
       expert systems)
       http://www.panix.com/~clocke/darkside.html
     
again, thanks for your interest (where applicable) in my twisted 
info-anarchist agenda.  ;-) 
     
best
     
chris (a.k.a. RageBoy)
     
                        Entropy Gradient Reversals
                         All Noise - All the Time
                     http://www.panix.com/~clocke/EGR