Hi list members,
I always follow the conversations on this list with interest, but as I
finished my Masters in Information Management (Library and Information
Studies) last week, I finally consider myself qualified to make my first
post!
I’m the first to admit that I’m not as sold on the validity of online
social networks as many in this group. I don’t have a Second Life
avatar, I’ve never used Twitter or MySpace, and I only use Facebook to
keep up with truant friends overseas. Yet the Lance Ulanoff article was
so trashy and arrogant that even I objected to it! However, I think he
actually gave us some scope for intelligent discussion, (mostly
unintentionally I suspect). The link to John C Dvorak’s column
(http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2141525,00.asp) in particular
provides us with a topic for real scholarly debate, both on this list
and outside it.
Dvorak suggests that we consider archiving Twitter conversations for
future access. This is a notion that clearly exposes him to ridicule
(especially f (Source: gmane.education.web4lib)