Whether viciously funny, or just plain vicious, Michael Gorman's scathing indictment of bloggers ("Revenge of the Blog People!" BackTalk, LJ 2/15/05, p. 44) unleashed an avalanche of outrage, from librarians, the Hogging community, and technophiles generally. The consensus among readers was about 99-1 against Gorman-and very few seemed to find the piece humorous, as he said he intended. (For more on the background and reaction to Gorman's piece, see News, p. 18, and Letters, p. 12.) One unintended consequence of "Revenge of the Blog People!" is that in the larger world, librarians were attacked as being antitechnology, in part because Gorman is president-elect of the American Library Association (ALA). That perception is unfortunate. It harms the image not only of librarians but of libraries. Nothing could be further from the truth than the idea that librarians are technophobes, as the pages of LJ attest continually. Libraries are often ahead of most businesses and institutions in developing and using technology.
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