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Friday, February 25th, 2005

Michael Gorman - Revenge of the Blog People!

It seems that American Library Association president-elect Michael Gorman doesn’t like blogs or bloggers. Any guess what? Bloggers don’t like him either. And it’s bad when people who blog about library and information science have such a major disagreement withe the head of ALA. Makes you wonder how relevant ALA is. (Disclaimer: I’m a member of ALA)

Gorman now says the article was satire, but the damage has been done. I think Gorman just has a basic misunderstanding about what blogging is and is now at a loss to defend this view. With people like Gorman leading ALA, no wonder people think librarians are obsolete.

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One Response to “Michael Gorman - Revenge of the Blog People!”

  1. artiefacts.com » Blog Archive » Google and Gorman’s Mind Says:
    April 27th, 2005 at 9:24 am

    [...] arians, bloggers and ALA members were not convinced. Here’s a typical response from Dan Greene: Gorman now says the article was satire, but the [...]

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