At the risk of beating an old dead horse here’s just one last post on Gormangate. It’s a conglomerate of Gormangate posts from the blog people.
I’ve been busy trying to finish editing an edition of The Reference Librarian, so I’ve been behind in my blogosphere reading. Today I finally found some time to read the unpublishable blog people’s subculture. I used a notoriously inefficient search engine to retrieve heaps of irrelevant rubbish in nanoseconds to see just what the blog people think (or their subclass who are interested in computers and the glorification of information). The quality of the writing in the blogs I saw leads me to believe many of the Blog People are, like me, busy with other pursuits, such as sustained reading or writing of complex texts. Luckily, my intellectual needs are met by an accumulation of random facts and paragraphs, which is exactly what I’ve collected here. In no particular order are some of the posts I found interesting.
You may want to start with Revenge of the Blog People!, the LJ piece that started it all, though you may want to back track a bit and hit Google and God’s Mind first.
Librarian incites bloggers is from NetworkWorldFusion. Not much there other than a brief mention and a link to Slashdot.
Slashdot, of course, has some Good Comments, over 900 total, which is more than the average post gets.
LibraryPlanet collects a few good quotes.
Metafilter has more than a few decent comments.
Jessamyn offers some good insight.
“Revenge of the Codex People” is probably the most creative and funny response.
KGS (aka The Free Range Librarian, AKA K.G. Schneider) takes a loooong look, and calls it “sad counter-example of our dues at work.”
InstaPundit was one of the non-brarian blogs to pick up on his rant.
Patter Recognition has some good quotes and thoughts.
LibrarianInBlack says Michael Gorman is Irresponsible.
Seth Finkelstein’s Infothought blog collects some good quotes.
A really good post At LibraryTechtonics has a good response to the Michael Gorman fiasco.
Steven M. Cohen takes offense to “your overgeneralizations and prejudices against me and my blogging colleagues“
Michael Stephens’ Open (yet personal) letter to Michael Gorman
Kevin Dangoor’s Weblog has some good things to say.
explodedlibrary.info says Michael Gorman really doesn’t understand anything about blogs.
Ego Food says is a bit, well, off.
The Vancouver Law Librarian Blog says You Gotta Love Michael Gorman.
Information Wants To Be Free chimes in with some good thoughts.
Teleread Says Dump Gorman–as a threat to literature and librarianship.
Neil Gaiman, yes, that Neil Gaiman, responded to Gorman on his blog as well.
urlgreyhot.com shares some thoughts.
The Scitech Library Question has alot to say.
At the risk of beating an old dead horse here’s just one last post on Gormangate. It’s a conglomerate of Gormangate posts from the blog people.
I’ve been busy trying to finish editing an edition of The Reference Librarian, so I’ve been behind in my blogosphere reading. Today I finally found some time to read the unpublishable blog people’s subculture. I used a notoriously inefficient search engine to retrieve heaps of irrelevant rubbish in nanoseconds to see just what the blog people think (or their subclass who are interested in computers and the glorification of information). The quality of the writing in the blogs I saw leads me to believe many of the Blog People are, like me, busy with other pursuits, such as sustained reading or writing of complex texts. Luckily, my intellectual needs are met by an accumulation of random facts and paragraphs, which is exactly what I’ve collected here. In no particular order are some of the posts I found interesting.
You may want to start with Revenge of the Blog People!, the LJ piece that started it all, though you may want to back track a bit and hit Google and God’s Mind first.
Librarian incites bloggers is from NetworkWorldFusion. Not much there other than a brief mention and a link to Slashdot.
Slashdot, of course, has some Good Comments, over 900 total, which is more than the average post gets.
LibraryPlanet collects a few good quotes.
Metafilter has more than a few decent comments.
Jessamyn offers some good insight.
“Revenge of the Codex People” is probably the most creative and funny response.
KGS (aka The Free Range Librarian, AKA K.G. Schneider) takes a loooong look, and calls it “sad counter-example of our dues at work.”
InstaPundit was one of the non-brarian blogs to pick up on his rant.
Patter Recognition has some good quotes and thoughts.
LibrarianInBlack says Michael Gorman is Irresponsible.
Seth Finkelstein’s Infothought blog collects some good quotes.
A really good post At LibraryTechtonics has a good response to the Michael Gorman fiasco.
Steven M. Cohen takes offense to “your overgeneralizations and prejudices against me and my blogging colleagues“
Michael Stephens’ Open (yet personal) letter to Michael Gorman
Kevin Dangoor’s Weblog has some good things to say.
explodedlibrary.info says Michael Gorman really doesn’t understand anything about blogs.
Ego Food says is a bit, well, off.
The Vancouver Law Librarian Blog says You Gotta Love Michael Gorman.
Information Wants To Be Free chimes in with some good thoughts.
Teleread Says Dump Gorman–as a threat to literature and librarianship.
Neil Gaiman, yes, that Neil Gaiman, responded to Gorman on his blog as well.
urlgreyhot.com shares some thoughts.
The Scitech Library Question has alot to say.
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