A Smart Mob

This is the blog for the Emerging Technologies and Issues class at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Friday, February 25, 2005

We're not well liked in our own field...

According to a recent Library Journal article, that is, wherein ALA president Michael Gorman discusses his distaste for bloggers. From the slashdot newsposting:

"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.'"

-Bertito

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