hiring ho hum!

[The Big Glee Bopper]

On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Martin Cohen wrote:

> If a 
> curriculum regards story telling and C programming as equivalent, it's 
> difficult to define the marketplace worth of those who have taken a degree 
> in it. (I'm not making a comparison here: I'm not much good at either).

Story telling is the more u$eful of the two. Not many use C any more 
but storytelling seems to be the heart of the new media. Major bucks for 
folks who can combine the words _digital_ and _storytelling_, read: 
computer game design. I couldn't help but comment on Martin's 
juxtaposition as I am still working on a strange piece called,

Game Design as the Model for Information Science as an Art, strange
ruminations: version1.1

at http://www.indiana.edu/~slizzard/gameDesign/game_design2.html

This is nothing close to traditional MLS or MIS training being offered 
at Michigan, Berkeley or even at Indiana but I think it is much closer to 
the needs of the emerging new media world. The problem is that the idea 
of _our_ people has to disappear to get anything silly done. I like the 
idea of bleeding edge info artists called _librarians_ with bleeding edge 
skills other folks are more than willing to pay for which they are if you 
have the skills I suggest.

Thoughts? I'm only up to version 1.1, more than willing to change if the 
wind blows out of the north suddenly 8-).

--Thom
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