ALA President Not Fond of Bloggers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday February 24, 2005 @06:47PM from the nail-hit-on-head dept.

Phil Shapiro writes "American Library Association president Michael Gorman is not too fond of bloggers and blogging. '[The] Blog People (or their subclass who are interested in computers and the glorification of information) have a fanatical belief in the transforming power of digitization and a consequent horror of, and contempt for, heretics who do not share that belief... Given the quality of the writing in the blogs I have seen, I doubt that many of the Blog People are in the habit of sustained reading of complex texts. It is entirely possible that their intellectual needs are met by an accumulation of random facts and paragraphs.'"

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Re:It's about links between information by mungojelly · 2005-02-24 19:33 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I agree, one of the main roles blogs are serving at this point is as gatekeepers & aggregators. (TFA doesn't grok this; a librarian's idea of metadata is a card catalogue.)

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Re:Marx was not even fit to lick Franklin's boot by sp0rk173 · 2005-02-25 15:12 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Plenty of great responses. But i'm going to sum it up in a few simple words:

You Are A Douche.