Craft the Rainbow -
40 Colorful Paper Projects from The House That Lars Built
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Friday, 21 July 2017
quote [ How the “Who’s Who” concept of reference books devolved from a genuinely useful idea into a very costly form of vanity publishing. ]
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robotroadkill said @ 10:31pm GMT on 21st July
I was nominated to be in this (the regular who's who one). I just assumed it was spam, having never heard of it, even after their follow up email. Knowing that I'm not actually notable enough to be included in such a thing, it would be embarrassing to appear in it, having submitted a bio as though I thought I was.
robotroadkill said @ 10:35pm GMT on 21st July
I was nominated to be in this (the regular who's who one). I just assumed it was spam, having never heard of it, even after their follow up email. Knowing that I'm not actually notable enough to be included in such a thing, it would be embarrassing to appear in it, having submitted a bio as though I thought I was.
Edit: I frequently get solicited to write papers and book chapters for journals completely unrelated to my actual expertise (but rarely in it), so being "who's who" just fell in with that lot of auto-solicitations in my mind.
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robotroadkill said @ 10:31pm GMT on 21st July
I was nominated to be in this (the regular who's who one). I just assumed it was spam, having never heard of it, even after their follow up email. Knowing that I'm not actually notable enough to be included in such a thing, it would be embarrassing to appear in it, having submitted a bio as though I thought I was.
Edit: I frequently get solicited to write papers and book chapters for journals completely unrelated to my actual expertise (but rarely in it), so being "who's who" just fell in with that lot of auto-solicitations in my mind.
Who, who, who, who?