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ALA President Not Fond of Bloggers
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.'"
Look out! The "Blog People" are going to burn books!
I like suggestions, but I don't like contributing towards them.
It is entirely possible that their intellectual needs are met by an accumulation of random facts and paragraphs.
Not sure what
a random
paragraph is. The temperature here is 33 degrees
fahrenheit. I took a walk today. My HP
doesn't like talking to CUPS.
There are 3,472 green M&M's in the
jar.
man, I feel like mold.
Read complex texts? Ha! /.ers can't even be bothered to RTFA.
I'm not to fond of these ALA president people. From what I have superficially seen they make broad sweeping generalisations and knee jerk statements about others who they do not take the time to understand. I also heard that they don't shower very often and are cruel to puppies. There was a rumour going around that they get their tertiay education from discarded tissue boxes and glue sticks.
He's just bitter because the idea of mapping IP addresses to the Dewey Decimal System never caught on.
-- Gah.
His writing styles is absolutely atrocious.
... it burns!
The irony