Re: paleonet Long-time threat and publishing better dinosaur stuff

["Jere H. Lipps" <jlipps@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 06:59 PM 4/14/2005, you wrote:

In a message dated 4/14/2005 4:14:27 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, jlipps@berkeley.edu writes:

You could publish your stuff on Palaeo Electronica with colored illustrations of those feathers, with sounds that they made while attacking each other, with movies of them flying from the ground up or the trees down, with 3-D reconstructions of the scales and feathers that could be manipulated by everyone else who disagrees, or with combinations, like a nasty egg-eating dino crunching eggs in its feather-bedecked beak with the yokes running down little grooves in its chin and its tongue making little slurping sounds.   Or whatever they did.   You could do it better on-line than in any paper journal.  Then all of you could cite that paper for good or bad, and soon the journal would be top-ranked!

Oh yeah. And who's going to produce all those sfx? Industrial Light and Magic? They don't come cheap (cheep, cheep).

I donno.  Who produces your stuff now?  (Grunt, grunt)   We have people coming through giving seminars all the time using video clips, sounds, fancy drawings, things rotating around, and other fancy stuff, all stuck into PowerPoint, so someone can do it.  Probably you, if you try.   I exaggerated only a little bit, but I hope everyone gets the point that e-pubs offer a lot more than paper and its pdf equivalents.

I'm gonna try it with forams, if I can ever get the little suckers to move at all!  They will be all brown, so that cuts down on the work.