11/16/2004 10:06:01 AM|||amanda|||I expect this will be making its rounds across the library blogosphere today. Greg Hill, Alaska librarian, doesn't have a good word to say about bloggers and blogging. That's just fine, of course, since everyone is entitled to an opinion as well as the right to express it. But there isn't anything fair and balanced about his take:
Blogs focus on whatever subjects their creators care to expound upon. While some are academically rigorous, most are merely personal rants. When bloggers feel passionately enough about a subject, often themselves, they create and regularly update blogs expressing their views, usually including hyperlinks to other Web pages that confirm their opinions. All it takes is some inexpensive and user-friendly blogging software, strong opinions and time. Actual knowledge is purely optional.
And then there's the stuff that's purely erroneous:
Blog owners usually don't allow their readers to add their own comments, preferring their monologues to others' dialogues.
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