theorywatch

Such as librarian Meredith Farkas, with her response to Michael Gorman’s “The Sleep of Reason”, (which seems, ironically, to show that the blog people are indeed having their revenge, since Mr. Gorman himself is now apparently willing to share his ideas through blogging…. though, perhaps, as K.G. Schneider points out. a little too obviously encouraged by the Britannica marketing folks in a clever traffic-building ploy. (As a former electronic marketing manager at a scholarly press, however, I have to confess to admiring their attempt!)

Or aspiring journalist Laurel from Bartlesville High School here in Oklahoma, blogging about the resignation of school librarian Susan Hunt after 33 years of service, due to the uproar over a particular young adult book, just a few months after the unveiling of the statue of Ruth Brown in Bartlesville.

In any event, it occurs to me that, based on what I’ve read in Louise Robbins’s fine book about her, if Ruth Brown were alive today, she’d definitely be blogging!