Comments on: MLA Style Online — Still Just As Clueless about Modernity

By: Iris

Iris — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:50:31 +0000

Yeah, it’s all kinds of clueless. :|

By: Catherine

Catherine — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:47:38 +0000

Also, you can’t transfer your access to the website to someone else, even if you sell (or, presumably, give) your copy of the handbook to someone else? Oh, for the love of pete…

Memo to MLA: please to be joining the 21st century. NOW.

By: Iris

Iris — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:01:17 +0000

Yeah, and I’m confused about why they’d want to limit this.

And snarky as it may sound, I wonder how they plan to find out about infringing activity, since tracking referrer logs and searching for deep linking seems like a higher-order activity for web denizens, and they’re still figuring out that there’s an Internet. Still, I don’t want them to turn off my account, so I’ll play along for now.

I predict things will be better next year. This seems unsustainable.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:05:26 +0000

Catherine:

In the real world, it’s not. :)

By: Catherine

Catherine — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:20:50 +0000

I said this on FriendFeed, but I’ll say it again here: I’m still not clear on whether and how it’s possible for a person or organization to forbid others from linking to specific web pages on that person’s site. Can anyone explain this (preferably in simple declarative sentences using words of no more than two syllables :-) )?