Flapping wings
In-boxes overflowed today with screeds and rants (and other messages) about ssrn.com's tournament rankings of law professors and schools.
We must have more important things to do than discuss this. Obviously there's data out there about what gets read on this particular service. Clearly that makes ratings possible. So?
We can't control this, it's not worth gaming, and it's just one of many indicators of online intellectual life. There are plenty of offline indicators that aren't captured by these ratings. I realize I'm just adding to the number of screeds and rants about this, but the emails keep crashing in, thumping against the shore of my limited (see last entry) attention, and I felt the need to voice my incredulity.
Meanwhile, in other (non)news, I hear that some people at the ICANN meeting in Argentina are waking up to the fact that the process for the strategic plan was severely flawed. What about the substance? Is anyone talking about the drastically-changed contracts ICANN is demanding from new registries? Bret - send word!
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