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.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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