The Internet: Where Everyone's a Source

Sunday, January 02, 2005, at 04:15PM

By Eric Richardson

I was wandering the stats today, as I do most days (I don't know why... They never have anything interesting to tell me). A new referrer had popped up for the main site: Abortion and the Rights of a Child. I'm a little fuzzy on how the dates are working for this, but in any case a paper I wrote Freshman year -- Refuting Judith Jarvis Thompson -- ends up in the footnotes.

That sort of thing's always struck me as a little funny. I put my papers online, but I don't usually expect people to actually read them. Every now and again, though, I find myself quoted or referenced in a well-reasoned work. That always trips me out a little. It's cool, I'm just not used to it yet.