Posted on 02/25/2005 2:55:07 PM PST by steve-b
...Who are the Blog People?
It is obvious that the Blog People read what they want to read rather than what is in front of them and judge me to be wrong on the basis of what they think rather than what I actually wrote. 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....
(Excerpt) Read more at libraryjournal.com ...
such big words, confused blog person...
"Me heap big librarian. You ignorant peasant. Knuckle your forehead to me, ignorant peasant!"
Oooooh...! I shudder before his intellect!
So if you spend many hours reading comlicated shi*, then you're smart, right?
Ok now: Who pulled his chain?
Methinks bloggers should not take no uber-crappo crappo from silly librarians. I say they should send email with many misspellded werds and make phun of his mother and stuph...
He needs to read the better blogs... the good ones are as literate and thoughtful as anything I've seen from "professional" writers...
http://www.powerlineblog.com/
Powerline
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/
Captain's Quarters
http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/weblog.php
LGF
My piece had the temerity to question the usefulness of Google digitizing millions of books and making bits of them available via its notoriously inefficient search engine. The Google phenomenon is a wonderfully modern manifestation of the triumph of hope and boosterism over reality. Hailed as the ultimate example of information retrieval, Google is, in fact, the device that gives you thousands of "hits" (which may or may not be relevant) in no very useful order.
Those characteristics are ignored and excused by those who think that Google is the creation of "God's mind," because it gives the searcher its heaps of irrelevance in nanoseconds. Speed is of the essence to the Google boosters, just as it is to consumers of fast "food," but, as with fast food, rubbish is rubbish, no matter how speedily it is delivered.
Hardly. Google is to rubbish as this guy is to informed.
Gorman is a transplanted Englishman who ran for his position with the library association on a platform that included a call to revoke the Patriot Act. What an arse!
*Sigh* ..I did, but it was an accident...my toilet was stopped-up, and the chain thingy in the tank section... ..I pulled it and... this happen. ..what happens, Shrillary happens. :^)
Funny, I found a lot about him in nanoseconds with a Google search. Maybe he just does not know how to Google.
He's the Anti-Googler
And the Google owners/designers are liberal to boot!
Let my Blog People go!
It is difficult for a man to be suddenly confronted with the realization that anyone can do his job--and probably better, too.
I am unimpressed with his opinions. For a librarian he is surprisingly ignorant of Internet research.
Some of the dinosaurs used to bleat like that about those consarned mammals, as they slowly sank into the tar pits...
Education:
Ealing Technical College (now Thames Valley University), London, 1964-1966.
Barney Googler's long lost cousin!
Seriously, the gripe these people really have with the age of information is that the ordinary googler (moi) can check up on their assertions in seconds and rebut them. That's what has his panties in a wad. I'm thinking the printing press had a similar effect on the self appointed masters of knowledge in the middle ages.
Barney Googler's long lost cousin!
Seriously, the gripe these people really have with the age of information is that the ordinary googler (moi) can check up on their assertions in seconds and rebut them. That's what has his panties in a wad. I'm thinking the printing press had a similar effect on the self appointed masters of knowledge in the middle ages.
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