[WEB4LIB] Re: Blog: Open source vs. commercial

[K.G. Schneider]

> software used by the campus webmaster a long time ago.  When I was
> asked, for what purpose, I described the purpose and was told in
> response, "Well, you don't need blogging software."  (Unfortunately,
> this is a typical interchange, one that I find very irritating over
> time.  I am fairly tech savvy, more so, I fear, than many (most?) in our
> IT department.  To be told that I don't know what suits the library's
> needs, when that is one of my chief responsibilities, is irritating and
> limiting.) 

That is one of the sotto voce reasons underlying my points about Typepad.
Nothing like an information specialist being told by some IT type what kind
of information we don't need to deliver. 

Karen G. Schneider