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You could put a PURL into a catalog record and if the URL it pointed to needed to change you changed the redirect on the PURL server, and all the places that pointed to the PURL didn’t need to change. It was a beautifully simple idea, and has influenced other approaches like DOI and Handle. But this simplicity depends on a commitment to keeping the PURL up to date
A Bit About PURLs
inkdroid.org
Journalists leave a bad impression with the public when they call themselves “storytellers,” a new study finds.
“Sounds like a well-trained liar”: Journalists lose some credibility by calling themselves “storytellers” | Nieman Journalism Lab
Business Models
One type of strange result you can get from this is that if you have some weird small stock or cryptocurrency that doesn’t trade very much, you can give it a very large market capitalization by selling one share or token to your buddy at an inflated price, and then you can go around telling people “ooh look at the huge market cap of this thing, it is so valuable, it must have discovered a cure for cancer,” and maybe you can do bad stuff with that.
The Nickel Market Almost Broke
bloomberg.com
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