Anyone who took note of Mark Bernstein's very public withdrawal from the board of the Electronic Literature Organization over the issue of its electronic preservation initiative ("PAD") should please now read the ELO's reply, which goes a long way towards setting the record straight. It's really difficult to see how any reasonable person could take the collective technical and scholarly expertise of the individuals invested in PAD, coupled with the ELO's constant outreach to the writing community, as the "active impediment and continuing embarrassment" Bernstein makes it out to be.
One wonders what other motives might be underfoot.
Posted by mgk at May 30, 2003 08:19 PMI guess some people are more easily impeded, and embarrassed, than others!
Seriously, there are no mysterious motives at this end.
Posted by: Mark Bernstein at May 30, 2003 11:34 PM | Link to Commentlink accidentally missing from the comment above