He's a dinosaur. I mean it seems more like a cry of desperation than anything. Why else be so ascerbic?
The thing is that the internet (webernets, internets, etc) excels at community - even though it may be one of the hardest business models to realize on the internet, it is one of the mainstays. People have been given a voice, and for the ALA president to condone this is shortsightedness and, as a certain Mr. Cleese put it, silliness.
Whether you 'blog' or post to your own craptastic website or email your friends about your latest 'moblog' postings, you all have a right to share. And no, you all don't have to be Tolstoys, Shakespeares, Dostoyevskys, Byrons, or Flemings.
This guy has just dated himself. 100 years from now it will be the journalists who embraced blogging as an advance who are revered as opposed to those who condemned it. After all, are we all still traipsing about in the horse and buggy? (although maybe we should be!). So who cares. Go eat pizza, drink beer, and get naked and cite Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure to your offspring. Like the 'library' will be around in ten years, anyway. Perhaps the elistism will be, however. Maybe by then he can get a job serving drinks at the next Trek convention?
Anyway, peace and love. I'm sure he didn't mean it as nasty as it sounded. Or did he? (pinky in mouth)
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These animals are cannibals and this is why they contract this disease.
Makes a case to become vegetarian, imo.
Watch what you eat.
This is a good resource for more information: The Mad Cowboy.
Uhh, I was meaning 'webernet and internets' as what is called 'sarcasm', maybe you should look that up.
;P
As for my use of 'condone', there should be a 'not' in there, sorry for the mistake! I'll blame it on the wine...
You sound like the ALA president himself correcting me!? That would be such an honor
This is a good thing, really.
He's a dinosaur. I mean it seems more like a cry of desperation than anything. Why else be so ascerbic?
The thing is that the internet (webernets, internets, etc) excels at community - even though it may be one of the hardest business models to realize on the internet, it is one of the mainstays. People have been given a voice, and for the ALA president to condone this is shortsightedness and, as a certain Mr. Cleese put it, silliness.
Whether you 'blog' or post to your own craptastic website or email your friends about your latest 'moblog' postings, you all have a right to share. And no, you all don't have to be Tolstoys, Shakespeares, Dostoyevskys, Byrons, or Flemings.
This guy has just dated himself. 100 years from now it will be the journalists who embraced blogging as an advance who are revered as opposed to those who condemned it. After all, are we all still traipsing about in the horse and buggy? (although maybe we should be!). So who cares. Go eat pizza, drink beer, and get naked and cite Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure to your offspring. Like the 'library' will be around in ten years, anyway. Perhaps the elistism will be, however. Maybe by then he can get a job serving drinks at the next Trek convention?
Anyway, peace and love. I'm sure he didn't mean it as nasty as it sounded. Or did he? (pinky in mouth)