Comments on: The power and peril of blogs http://www.familymanlibrarian.com/2007/06/14/the-power-and-peril-of-blogs/ A blog about family, technology, and libraries Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: <![CDATA[Steve]]> http://www.familymanlibrarian.com/2007/06/14/the-power-and-peril-of-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-2085 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:05:49 +0000 http://familymanlibrarian.com/?p=632#comment-2085 Michelle, thanks for commenting and for clarifying. One thing I realized after I hit the "publish" button is, <em>I</em> wasn't the one getting the criticism. Or being used as a supposedly bad example. I may have felt (and responded) differently if it had been me. This isn't a criticism at all but...I didn't take your post response as being flippant. I thought you were serious. Call me clueless. For the record, I am a vigorous proponent of blogs and blogging. Also for the record, I have been a column editor (as it so happens, for the same journal (Serials Review) as one of the NASIG presenters -- but I don't know that individual at all). I am in agreement with what a few others have stated, that there is a role for columns and a role for blogs. Sometimes those roles overlap. But I'm not bothered by the co-existence. Michelle, thanks for commenting and for clarifying. One thing I realized after I hit the “publish” button is, I wasn’t the one getting the criticism. Or being used as a supposedly bad example. I may have felt (and responded) differently if it had been me.

This isn’t a criticism at all but…I didn’t take your post response as being flippant. I thought you were serious. Call me clueless.

For the record, I am a vigorous proponent of blogs and blogging. Also for the record, I have been a column editor (as it so happens, for the same journal (Serials Review) as one of the NASIG presenters — but I don’t know that individual at all).

I am in agreement with what a few others have stated, that there is a role for columns and a role for blogs. Sometimes those roles overlap. But I’m not bothered by the co-existence.

]]> By: <![CDATA[Michelle (Jane)]]> http://www.familymanlibrarian.com/2007/06/14/the-power-and-peril-of-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-2084 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:47:20 +0000 http://familymanlibrarian.com/?p=632#comment-2084 Just to clarify: Though I did so in a flippant manner, what I was really responding to was the fact that the speaker seemed to take my words out of context and hold them up as an example of the types of things on a serious library blog. I have never claimed to write such a thing and almost any blog, serious, scholarly, or no, has moments of flippancy. It is also telling to me that the speaker did not cite my blog or name as he gave the quote. I wonder if he was afraid that people would find out that he had used a post of out context and that the post was not an example of someone writing as a scholar. The only reason that I know the quote was used is because a close friend was in the audience. Just to clarify:

Though I did so in a flippant manner, what I was really responding to was the fact that the speaker seemed to take my words out of context and hold them up as an example of the types of things on a serious library blog. I have never claimed to write such a thing and almost any blog, serious, scholarly, or no, has moments of flippancy.

It is also telling to me that the speaker did not cite my blog or name as he gave the quote. I wonder if he was afraid that people would find out that he had used a post of out context and that the post was not an example of someone writing as a scholar. The only reason that I know the quote was used is because a close friend was in the audience.

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