I remember years ago attending a focus group with high level academic and administravie staff at the university that I worked at and one of the pro vice chancellors said what he wanted was some way of feeding the information he needed directly into his brain as he was drowning in a sea of paper: agendas, reports, minutes, articles, agreements etc. Well it seems RSS is a partial solution to his problem - you no longer need to chase the information you want: it comes to you. Of course drowning in a sea has become email the modern malaise.
I am very impressed with the level of informal commentary coming out of the library world - so many young, passionate, articulate, thinking librarians out there coming up with wild, crazy, sometimes brilliant ideas about how to link people and information...it makes me proud.
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