From: JAY DUGGER (duggerj1@charter.net)
Date: Sun Aug 24 2003 - 20:02:04 MDT
Sunday, 24 August 2003
Hello all,
Some readers will see this post twice. If this
bothers you, please accept the duplicate post as a
challenge to improve your email filters.
Slashdot shows an interesting post today. The
Distributed Library Project aims to create a group of
people in a geographic area willing to act together as a
library.
Slashdot, with marginal commentary.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=75903&cid=0&pid=0&startat=&threshold=3&mode=thread&commentsort=0&op=Change¶
Distributed Library Project
http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/dlp/index.html
While interesting in general, I bring it to the
lists' attention because it reminded me of an idea I had
last year. Not everyone on the lists has good access to
the various works listed in extropian and transhumanist
bibliographies. Some people can't afford them; some people
don't live near a good library. Yet others on these lists
might have copies of interesting books gathering dust on a
shelf. (I do.)
Does this DLP show a good way to share books among
our community? It seems designed for metropolitan areas,
but I don't see any reason why one couldn't use the tool
for larger regions. The requester might pay shipping
costs, as with Inter-Library Loan. Obviously, it'll
sometimes be cheaper to buy a book than ship it.
One point of concern raised in the /. forum struck
me. A person criticized the "eBay-style" trust metric and
help up Advogato's method as a superior example.
Comments? Does interest in the ExI-WTA Lending
Library exist? Can anyone intelligently judge the
trust-metrics, or give pointers to methods for doing so?
Jay Dugger : Til Eulenspiegel
http://www.owlmirror.net/~duggerj
Sometimes the delete key serves best.
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