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Thread #105393   Message #2169608
Posted By: GUEST,Tom Bliss
12-Oct-07 - 11:36 AM
Thread Name: Guardian calls Ani DiFranco folk singer
Subject: RE: Guardian calls Ani DiFranco folk singer
If we don't label things properly we loose the ability to track them - and that can have unforeseen consequences.

Have you ever heard of something called change management Rog?

If programmers make independent changes to a programme without keeping track of who did what when and why, chaos soon ensues.

If we allow the various traditional tributaries which flow into folk music to get merged into one happy clappy soup without noting where they came from as they trickled in, we'll loose the ability to track back upstream - which would be a massive shame (and crime in my opinion) as there is so much yet to (re)discover.

Call the big pot folk by all means. But use the other phases carefully and as accurately as you can - and always ALWAYS attribute (indeed Leadfingers)!

It's like plants. If we forget which flowers produced which chemicals for which drugs we'll soon lose the motherlode.

Where's Diane when you need her (and why didn't you come to Sharps D)?