ALA Prez-Elect Gorman on the "Blog People"

[Greg Schwartz]

Has anyone had any luck finding the source of the "Michael Gorman is
an idiot" quote?

Greg Schwartz
http://openstacks.net/os




On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:46:38 -0800 (PST), 
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> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:38:37 -0800
> From: "K.G. Schneider" <kgs at bluehighways.com>
> To: "'Multiple recipients of list'" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
> Subject: FW: LJ: ALA Prez-Elect Gorman on the "Blog People"
> Message-ID: <20050224233841.8B1E425599 at frontend3.messagingengine.com>
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> (Note: based on the December traffic, I think most of the discussion
> actually happened on Web4Lib, not blogs.)
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> http://tinyurl.com/5ujgt
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> In which we learn, in a response to blog entries critiquing Gorman's
> December 2004 L.A. Times article about Google Print, that the library
> blogging community is uneducated, fanatical, and obtuse. "[The] Blog People
> (or their subclass who are interested in computers and the glorification of
> information) have a fanatical belief in the transforming power of
> digitization and a consequent horror of, and contempt for, heretics who do
> not share that belief. ..."
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> "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. ..."
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> Nice. Really nice. Good use of the ALA presidential bully pulpit. No
> citations, of course.
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> K.G. Schneider
> kgs at bluehighways.com
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