Comments on Arthur C. Clarke - proud of his Wikipedia legacy or late to his own party?TypePad2008-03-20T19:45:30ZEwan McIntoshhttps://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/tag:typepad.com,2003:https://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2008/03/arthur-c-clarke/comments/atom.xml/Andy Hill commented on 'Arthur C. Clarke - proud of his Wikipedia legacy or late to his own party?'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d83451f00f69e200e551782c1288342008-03-21T11:07:46Z2008-03-21T11:07:47ZAndy HillIt also has a lot to do with the notion of celebrity, and reminds me of a passage in the...<p>It also has a lot to do with the notion of celebrity, and reminds me of a passage in the William Boyd novel 'The New Confessions' where the narrator John Todd, a former director of silent movies, who has by 1972 fallen into obscurity stumbles on his entry in a movie encyclopaedia which starts John Todd (b. 1899 d. 1960?)!!!<br />
Out of sight, out of mind!</p>Stephen Downes commented on 'Arthur C. Clarke - proud of his Wikipedia legacy or late to his own party?'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d83451f00f69e200e5513c98e488332008-03-20T20:41:53Z2008-03-20T20:41:53ZStephen Downeshttp://www.downes.ca> But it also reveals how inaccurate that page must have lain until his death. How does that follow? The...<p>> But it also reveals how inaccurate that page must have lain until his death.</p>
<p>How does that follow?</p>
<p>The page could have been perfectly accurate - but written as well as it could be, not as complete as it could be, etc.</p>
<p>Which, in fact, is more likely...<br />
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