Digitally Mediated Information Services

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I am the Director of the School of Information Resources and Library Science. I am primarily interested in digital data gathering in the field, analysis, synthesis and visualization to impact environmental decision making.

Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Beginning blog comments

Denise Green provides an extended quote of from a Gorman, Michael publication Title: Revenge of the Blog People! http://my590delblogddgreen.blogspot.com/

This is a very old story. It is the content! The fact that the content is in a blog does not make the content important. The content must make the content important (yuk! that sounds post-modernist). I find Mr. Gorman's comments about editors over general. Usually editorial filtering is very good as long as you are not the one being filtered but sometimes a lack of editorial control is very very good. Blogs are not publishing. They are public speaking.

I agree with Mr Gorman that google is not the "God Brain" and neither are blog postings.

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