A blog is a species of interactive electronic diary by means of which the unpublishable, untrammeled by editors or the rules of grammar, can communicate their thoughts via the web.

What jumped out at me, though, is whether Gorman broke his own rule in Our Singular Strengths: “Respect all forms by which knowledge is communicated.” This is according to a wikipedia entry, and therefore I am not sure of how well it reflects what Gorman actually wrote.

Since I have not read this work and cannot answer it for myself, but I have just placed a request for the book at my library. To be continued…

The first few hundred titles in the OCLC list are mainly titles we might associate with classic canonical literature, with some classic children’s lit thrown into the mix. These would be books held widely in both public and academic libraries, I suppose. Is there anything on this list that does surprise you? Did you expect popular culture items to rank higher on the list? And why did Garfield catapult to the top? Weirdness.

The arguments for and against other recent hot topic issues that have met at the intersection of libraries with technology, such as blogging, wikis, tagging and folksonomies, seem to be over before they are begun (yes, they are all great, just take them in moderation and know both their strengths and their perils). However, this one, I believe, is very important. It is important because it has implications for the way that patrons will (and in many cases, already are) interact(ing) with information and how to make the Internet experience much better.

In reading up on this somewhat fuzzy area, I was glad to have finally found the website for the recent d.Construct 2005 conference. So my fellow circulators, I just wanted to pass on a snippet of recommended reading/viewing as we approach the new year:

Go read Andy Budd’s “What is Web 2.0″ presentation. I predict that any of us who have anything to do with the web will need to understand these concepts in the year of the dog…