Consensus and dissidence

François Briatte has done a comparative survey of ten high profile websites. The results can be found in These web sites are identical—or are they?.

Several of the people whose sites were in the survey have posted responses: Dave Shea, Eric Meyer, Doug Bowman, Jon Hicks.

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