A Blog from Britannica Should Know Better (or, Gorman is blogging?)

I’m sorry. It’s just so hard to not write about this! If Gorman were a mainstream celebrity, and I was, say, Jay Leno, I’m be lampooning him heartlessly on late night tv. But I digress…
So… MG is blogging. (Reader: Hmm… didn’t he coin the term “blog people” a couple years ago about those people who [...]

“The point of a scholarly text”

From the Wall Street Journal, quoting Gorman:
“The point of a scholarly text is they are written to be read sequentially from beginning to end, making an argument and engaging you in dialogue.”
Come on. I went to college. I (and probably many other students) didn’t read the full text - we scanned for the good bits [...]

Blogging Makes You Smarter!

Take a look at this article, “Brain of a Blogger (found via Darlene Fichter’s link blog).
In this article, two MD types argue that writing a blog is good for your brain. Why?
1. Blogs can promote critical and analytical thinking.
2. Blogging can be a powerful promoter of creative, intuitive, and associational thinking.
3. Blogs promote analogical thinking.
4. [...]

Cronin complains about blogs … on a blog

Just found this sorta funny (via skagirlie).
Blaise Cronin (an MLS professor) posted a “Dean’s notes” article about blogs in his college’s SLIS News.
The funny part? You can subscribe to the RSS feed. So - when he asks “Why do they choose to they [sic] expose their unremarkable opinions”? … is he asking himself that question???
And [...]

Someone sent me a press release

I must have “arrived” somewhere, because an information company sent me a press release last week, and asked if I could post it on my blog. How cool is that? I can see their contact list now: Library Journal, InfoToday, Journal of Academic Librarianship, and [ahem] Dave’s Blog. Hee!
But it also made me think - [...]

Link from the Blog Person image - idea

Greg’s Blog Person web button is hilarious! Also, Michael says “I am loathe to link just to the LJ piece… other suggestions?”
How about someone making up a page/post with all the relevant links - one to the silly article that started it, and then to all the posts, articles, etc that discuss it…
That would achieve [...]

Gorman and Satire

I like satire. I think it can be funny. VERY funny. However, when one claims to have written a satirical piece in one sentence, and in the very same sentence claims to be “no fan of blogs” … then that person’s satire changes, in my mind at least, to a belief they really hold.
Translation? An [...]

Free Range Librarian is bugged by bloggers

Karen Schneider had some interesting things to say about bloggers being, well… bloggers at Internet Librarian 2004. Mainly concerning the observation that they might not be listening as well as they should be, and that their blogging might not be terribly courteous.
Here’s my take on it (speaking as a presenter who had bloggers in attendance):
1. [...]