andrea99 - 2:09 am on Mar 3, 2006 (gmt 0)

When's the last time you observed proper citation, anywhere?

Citation, and particularly proper citation is the province of scholarship and academics. I think a lot of scholarship is posted to the web and properly cited.

In this thread there *has* been attribution, and about as proper as one might expect in this venue. Forums and blogs are more like conversations than scholarship.

"Air quotes" work in conversation, but I've never seen an "air footnote." Conversations just flow and diverge without plan and that's all I expect in a forum or blog.