From SJMN's Good Morning Silicon Valley...
The quote of the day from Indiana University Dean and Rudy Professor of Information Science Blaise Cronin...
One wonders for whom these hapless souls blog. Why do they choose to expose their unremarkable opinions, sententious drivel and unedifying private lives to the potential gaze of total strangers? What prompts this particular kind of digital exhibitionism? The present generation of bloggers seems to imagine that such crassly egotistical behavior is socially acceptable and that time-honored editorial and filtering functions have no place in cyberspace. Undoubtedly, these are the same individuals who believe that the free-for-all, communitarian approach of Wikipedia is the way forward. Librarians, of course, know better.
Isn't that tasty!
Hapless Soul - check
Unremarkable opinions - check
sententious drivel - check
unedifying private life - check
But to "total strangers?" Excuse me!!! CJD, my reader, is one of my best friends! What does this guy know...
Posted by: XDM | 2005.05.05 at 09:00