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Seriously, the April 8, 2011 deadline for full papers for Balisage, August 1 – 5, Montreal, Canada is getting closer!
Some helpful links from Tommie Usdin’s reminder of the deadline:
– Paper Selection Criteria: http://www.balisage.net/paper-selection.html
– The proceedings from recent conferences (to give you an idea of what Balisage papers look like) are available from: http://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/index.html
– a tag Library, describing the Balisage tag set http://www.balisage.net/DocumentModels/BalisageTL/index.html You might find the “Full Paper Sample” helpful. You can find it in the left-hand navigation bar.
If you have any questions about Balisage or your Balisage paper, please send email to info@balisage.net.
Personally I would like to see a paper on the design of an online paper submission system that rejects papers on the basis of improper use of the required markup. With a variety of nasty remarks depending on how far the paper departs from the requirements.
The new or innovative part of the paper being a ranking of departures from the required tag set with appropriate responses.
Ranging I suppose from: “Does your mother know you are using valuable bandwidth to bother us?” to “Close, but no prize (or submission to the conference).”
Sorry, I digress.
Do get your papers in by the April 8, 2011 deadline for the Balisage conference!
It is simply the best markup conference of the year.