Comments on: Another Netflix Thought http://www.davidleeking.com/2006/07/03/another-netflix-thought/ 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 By: K.G. Schneider http://www.davidleeking.com/2006/07/03/another-netflix-thought/comment-page-1/#comment-1652 K.G. Schneider Tue, 04 Jul 2006 01:48:30 +0000 http://www.davidleeking.com/2006/07/03/another-netflix-thought/#comment-1652 Working backwards: Netflix is wonderful because you don't have to go to the local video store, which is running out of business. So where is our delivery service? Funky smell: that's the library, not the librarians... and I've been to those places. Ick. Why bother? Content: do we really have content the way Netflix has content? If a bazillion people want a book, do we deliver? Pretty much repeating your points, I guess... Working backwards:

Netflix is wonderful because you don’t have to go to the local video store, which is running out of business. So where is our delivery service?

Funky smell: that’s the library, not the librarians… and I’ve been to those places. Ick. Why bother?

Content: do we really have content the way Netflix has content? If a bazillion people want a book, do we deliver?

Pretty much repeating your points, I guess…

]]> By: K.G. Schneider http://www.davidleeking.com/2006/07/03/another-netflix-thought/comment-page-1/#comment-25096 K.G. Schneider Tue, 04 Jul 2006 01:48:00 +0000 http://www.davidleeking.com/2006/07/03/another-netflix-thought/#comment-25096 Working backwards: Netflix is wonderful because you don't have to go to the local video store, which is running out of business. So where is our delivery service? Funky smell: that's the library, not the librarians... and I've been to those places. Ick. Why bother? Content: do we really have content the way Netflix has content? If a bazillion people want a book, do we deliver? Pretty much repeating your points, I guess... Working backwards:

Netflix is wonderful because you don’t have to go to the local video store, which is running out of business. So where is our delivery service?

Funky smell: that’s the library, not the librarians… and I’ve been to those places. Ick. Why bother?

Content: do we really have content the way Netflix has content? If a bazillion people want a book, do we deliver?

Pretty much repeating your points, I guess…

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