http://www.davidleeking.com/2005/07/26/someone-doesnt-know-me-too-well/ David Lee King is the Digital Branch & Services Manager at the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, where he plans, implements, and experiments with emerging technology trends. He has spoken in the U.S. and Canada about emerging trends, website usability and management, digital experience planning, and managing techie staff, and has been published in many library-related journals. David writes the Internet Spotlight column in Public Libraries Magazine with Michael Porter. David maintains a blog at http://www.davidleeking.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.davidleeking.com/2005/07/26/someone-doesnt-know-me-too-well/comment-page-1/#comment-23450 Bo Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:50:49 +0000 http://www.davidleeking.com/2005/07/26/someone-doesnt-know-me-too-well/#comment-23450 I do not recall when the last time I saw a book in daylight needing an electrical outlet. Tools come in different forms. I still would not want to be stabbed with a sword. Sure the gun is better, unless you do not have bullets. The point is both can coexist and serve a useful purpose. I do not recall when the last time I saw a book in daylight needing an electrical outlet. Tools come in different forms. I still would not want to be stabbed with a sword. Sure the gun is better, unless you do not have bullets. The point is both can coexist and serve a useful purpose.

]]> http://www.davidleeking.com/2005/07/26/someone-doesnt-know-me-too-well/comment-page-1/#comment-9590 Bo Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:07:14 +0000 http://www.davidleeking.com/2005/07/26/someone-doesnt-know-me-too-well/#comment-9590 I do not recall when the last time I saw a book in daylight needing an electrical outlet. Tools come in different forms. I still would not want to be stabbed with a sword. Sure the gun is better, unless you do not have bullets. The point is both can coexist and serve a useful purpose. I do not recall when the last time I saw a book in daylight needing an electrical outlet. Tools come in different forms. I still would not want to be stabbed with a sword. Sure the gun is better, unless you do not have bullets. The point is both can coexist and serve a useful purpose.

]]> http://www.davidleeking.com/2005/07/26/someone-doesnt-know-me-too-well/comment-page-1/#comment-124 Anonymous Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:06:00 +0000 http://www.davidleeking.com/2005/07/26/someone-doesnt-know-me-too-well/#comment-124 I certainly didn't intend to spar with you. I don't see these comments as some kind of game and I didn't really want to go to the trouble of registering or logging in or whatever. I don't know you at all, yes, and didn't plan on doing a whole lot of research into your ideas on this blog. I simply wanted to point out that this fear of change (i.e. the Luddites who worry over new technologies supplanting what they have become familar with) was unnecessary since the book was such an integral part of our culture. My comment was not intended to disagree with the tenor of your earlier comments. I think you and I might agree on most of these issues given a different venue (actual conversation). I probably overstated my case, but I was focusing on the book in print as something that will likely never go away. I still see horses and buggies here and there and I still see bookbinders who use older materials to create beautiful leather-bound volumes. These things may not be in wide usage--that would be quite impractical. But one might say it was still a bit impractical to try and read a monograph on a cell phone. Humans respond to objects in a very physical manner. The print book is a warm, familiar, ergonomically comfortable object. Technology is continually attempting to simulate it, but there is a point at which you have to ask yourself--how practical is this pursuit? I'm not arguing at all against the lovely open and free access to information people have in the digital realm, but I do think that it may never replace the relatively cheap and ergonomically friendly form of a book. Why would we want to go to all that trouble when we may very well have the best possible means of storing something like a novel and making it easily accessible to so many people? Why does Barnes and Noble open up a new store every time I turn around? Many of the trappings of our history seem to ride along with us into our present and our future. I have a feeling that print books will be there. Pants that end at the knee? Not so sure. I certainly didn’t intend to spar with you. I don’t see these comments as some kind of game and I didn’t really want to go to the trouble of registering or logging in or whatever. I don’t know you at all, yes, and didn’t plan on doing a whole lot of research into your ideas on this blog. I simply wanted to point out that this fear of change (i.e. the Luddites who worry over new technologies supplanting what they have become familar with) was unnecessary since the book was such an integral part of our culture. My comment was not intended to disagree with the tenor of your earlier comments. I think you and I might agree on most of these issues given a different venue (actual conversation). I probably overstated my case, but I was focusing on the book in print as something that will likely never go away. I still see horses and buggies here and there and I still see bookbinders who use older materials to create beautiful leather-bound volumes. These things may not be in wide usage–that would be quite impractical. But one might say it was still a bit impractical to try and read a monograph on a cell phone. Humans respond to objects in a very physical manner. The print book is a warm, familiar, ergonomically comfortable object. Technology is continually attempting to simulate it, but there is a point at which you have to ask yourself–how practical is this pursuit? I’m not arguing at all against the lovely open and free access to information people have in the digital realm, but I do think that it may never replace the relatively cheap and ergonomically friendly form of a book. Why would we want to go to all that trouble when we may very well have the best possible means of storing something like a novel and making it easily accessible to so many people? Why does Barnes and Noble open up a new store every time I turn around? Many of the trappings of our history seem to ride along with us into our present and our future. I have a feeling that print books will be there. Pants that end at the knee? Not so sure.

]]> http://www.davidleeking.com/2005/07/26/someone-doesnt-know-me-too-well/comment-page-1/#comment-24897 Anonymous Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:06:00 +0000 http://www.davidleeking.com/2005/07/26/someone-doesnt-know-me-too-well/#comment-24897 I certainly didn't intend to spar with you. I don't see these comments as some kind of game and I didn't really want to go to the trouble of registering or logging in or whatever. I don't know you at all, yes, and didn't plan on doing a whole lot of research into your ideas on this blog. I simply wanted to point out that this fear of change (i.e. the Luddites who worry over new technologies supplanting what they have become familar with) was unnecessary since the book was such an integral part of our culture. My comment was not intended to disagree with the tenor of your earlier comments. I think you and I might agree on most of these issues given a different venue (actual conversation). I probably overstated my case, but I was focusing on the book in print as something that will likely never go away. I still see horses and buggies here and there and I still see bookbinders who use older materials to create beautiful leather-bound volumes. These things may not be in wide usage--that would be quite impractical. But one might say it was still a bit impractical to try and read a monograph on a cell phone. Humans respond to objects in a very physical manner. The print book is a warm, familiar, ergonomically comfortable object. Technology is continually attempting to simulate it, but there is a point at which you have to ask yourself--how practical is this pursuit? I'm not arguing at all against the lovely open and free access to information people have in the digital realm, but I do think that it may never replace the relatively cheap and ergonomically friendly form of a book. Why would we want to go to all that trouble when we may very well have the best possible means of storing something like a novel and making it easily accessible to so many people? Why does Barnes and Noble open up a new store every time I turn around? Many of the trappings of our history seem to ride along with us into our present and our future. I have a feeling that print books will be there. Pants that end at the knee? Not so sure. I certainly didn’t intend to spar with you. I don’t see these comments as some kind of game and I didn’t really want to go to the trouble of registering or logging in or whatever. I don’t know you at all, yes, and didn’t plan on doing a whole lot of research into your ideas on this blog. I simply wanted to point out that this fear of change (i.e. the Luddites who worry over new technologies supplanting what they have become familar with) was unnecessary since the book was such an integral part of our culture. My comment was not intended to disagree with the tenor of your earlier comments. I think you and I might agree on most of these issues given a different venue (actual conversation). I probably overstated my case, but I was focusing on the book in print as something that will likely never go away. I still see horses and buggies here and there and I still see bookbinders who use older materials to create beautiful leather-bound volumes. These things may not be in wide usage–that would be quite impractical. But one might say it was still a bit impractical to try and read a monograph on a cell phone. Humans respond to objects in a very physical manner. The print book is a warm, familiar, ergonomically comfortable object. Technology is continually attempting to simulate it, but there is a point at which you have to ask yourself–how practical is this pursuit? I’m not arguing at all against the lovely open and free access to information people have in the digital realm, but I do think that it may never replace the relatively cheap and ergonomically friendly form of a book. Why would we want to go to all that trouble when we may very well have the best possible means of storing something like a novel and making it easily accessible to so many people? Why does Barnes and Noble open up a new store every time I turn around? Many of the trappings of our history seem to ride along with us into our present and our future. I have a feeling that print books will be there. Pants that end at the knee? Not so sure.

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