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Re: In praise of reckless enthusiasm

Terry Ehling <ehling@cornell.edu> writes

> Joe Esposito endorses unruly expectations and reckless
> enthusiasm:
>
> http://bit.ly/5DXw3p
>
> "It appears to be the rule that a reckless investment to preserve
> a practice or institution ultimately yields very little in the
> way of serendipitous outcomes, but crazy projects designed to
> bring new capacity on board may come to delight us all.
>
> "[M]y personal reckless enthusiasm: to build infrastructure that
> enables an unmediated, direct connection between scholars and
> scholarly materials.

I think this is precisely what I am doing in AuthorClaim at 
http://authorclaim.org

Cheers,

Thomas Krichel                    http://openlib.org/home/krichel
                               http://authorclaim.org/profile/pkr1
                                              skype: thomaskrichel