{"id":340,"date":"2003-05-16T17:58:03","date_gmt":"2003-05-16T21:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2003\/05\/16\/repurposing-online-thought\/"},"modified":"2003-05-16T17:58:03","modified_gmt":"2003-05-16T21:58:03","slug":"repurposing-online-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2003\/05\/16\/repurposing-online-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Repurposing Online Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a50'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>It&#8217;s becoming ever easier to refine one&#8217;s thoughts publicly, letting other benefit from and comment on initial great ideas, before taking the plunge of submitting a book manuscript to editors (cf.&nbsp;my&nbsp;developing essay on cloning <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/channeling\">communication channels<\/A>).<\/P><br \/>\n<P>See, for instance, <A href=\"http:\/\/www.sethgodin.com\/sg\/blog.html\">Seth G<\/A>&#8216;s <A href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/gems\/sj\/99cows.pdf\">99 Cows<\/A> (lovely companion to&nbsp;his new book, released on its publication date), Halley S&#8217;s <A href=\"http:\/\/halleyscomment.blogspot.com\/2003_01_19_halleyscomment_archive.html#90233115\">Alpha Male lessons<\/A>, Wil W&#8217;s new life as an <A href=\"http:\/\/www.monolithpress.com\/projects.php?projectID=2\">author<\/A>.<\/P><\/p>\n<p>Then there are the instructive notes from people who learned to write, then came to  master the art of sending messages to everyone &#8212; via printer and by-hand mass mailing, then via mail, over the web; is it the same?  Do people who have made one leap eventually go further and use the effort they put into their biyearly family mailing to generate a beautiful corner of the web for others?  some people, of course, come to put everything that might interest others on <a href=\"http:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\">their personal site<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><P>What lessons are to be learned here?&nbsp; Certainly none of the people above regretted being open with their thoughts and writing before committing them to a publication deal, nor had to retract old writing.&nbsp; How and when does publishing profusely online hurt (potential) authors?<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s becoming ever easier to refine one&#8217;s thoughts publicly, letting other benefit from and comment on initial great ideas, before taking the plunge of submitting a book manuscript to editors (cf.&nbsp;my&nbsp;developing essay on cloning communication channels). See, for instance, Seth G&#8216;s 99 Cows (lovely companion to&nbsp;his new book, released on its publication date), Halley S&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-demand"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-5u","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}