This session was presented by LAMA and co-sponsored by RUSA. The panelists included an architect, an audiovisual executive/geek, an academic director, AND a librarian… Read the rest of this entry »
This program focused on the expanding (and especially polarized) blogosphere and questioned whether the content of political blogs can be trusted. Many bloggers have an activist agenda and include/exclude, omit, expand, synthesize, and otherwise handpick “aspects” of a story, news item, etc. to promote a cause. Speaker was founder of “The Plank,” political blog for “The New Republic.” The blogger from “The Nation” was scheduled to speak, but didn’t make it to the packed room before I had to pick myself up from my perch on the floor and exit.
