Hi. This blog has tags, thanks to the WordPress tags beta plugin. Actually right now it has one tag, affectionately called “tag” but I’ll be changing that. I figured if I was ever going to even try to backtag 1100 or so entries, I’d better get on it before Winter was over.
Category: blogz
librarians in boing-boing
The team of Jacobs, Jacobs and Yeo have gotten their pre-print about the dangers involved in the changing face of access to government information [mentioned here two weeks ago] linked on Boing-Boing, congrats folks! [thanks kathleen]
Library Journal [sort of] responds to Gorman detractors
Does the latest Library Journal editorial regarding the Gorman v Bloggers melee just read like so much celebrity gossip? It mentions that half the emails he received were pseudonymous. I agree that it’s often a good idea to send both critique and compliments under your own name. However, let’s just remember that while Michael Gorman’s views may not “represent the official positions of either ALA or California State University Fresno” as LJ patronizingly reminds us, he’ll still be reading our responses as a person who occupies both of those roles. The Free Range Librarian is also unimpressed.
ask TangognaT “do I need an MLIS?”
This is a question I get a lot here, ably answered by TangognaT. Man, is everyone using WordPress nowadays?
flogging the blogs won’t clear the fog
I’ve been thinking about blogs lately as I moved to an entirely software-driven site here. Doing this has made me think more about content, since I don’t have the burden of also having to be the designer this time around. This has, of course, been true even moreso since people read the feeds intead of the web page, but I digress. Even though this is only marginally library related, with all the blogging and journalism hubub going on, it’s worth paying attention to, a progressive view of what blogs bring to journalism, and why it might matter by Sam Smith.
Tom Paine, Ben Franklin, and Frederick Douglass did not have press passes either, nor did anyone give them credentials before they commenced their unlicensed practice of the First Amendment. And where does one go these for such a license anyway? Usually to the government or to a committee comprised of employees of large media corporations whose interest is not in dispensing news but in owning its profits and who hire numerous lobbyists to manipulate the same White House and Congress their ace reporters are covering.
[thanks chris]