Sea change
Completely coincidentally, I received reviewers’ comments back on Roach Motel today. What with those (which were, ahem, rather substantive; further proof that I am not the library world’s next Walt Crawford) and today’s big news out of Harvard, I’m going to have to rewrite the whole enchilada.
I tell you what, though, that’s going to be a much more cheerful and enjoyable task than writing it in the first place was. It’s going to be a completely different article when I’m done… because there’s been a sea change. There’s hope. There’s a pathway to point to. There’s a whole new class of interesting technical problems to suggest solutions to!
People who think I’m a grumpy old bat on the basis of the Roach Motel preprint may be surprised at just how enthusiastic I can be when there’s reason to be…