Librarians Towards the Top of the Information Technology Food Chain!.
Blog Publishers Stealing Web Limelight
“Dave Winer, a pioneering Silicon Valley-based software programmer who is widely credited with spearheading the self-publishing movement, sees blogging following a well-worn path into the mainstream.
'At first the geeks go for a new information technology. It is required for that to happen. Then you have the lawyers and the librarians. Following very closely after that comes education and business,' he said.” [Reuters, via Scripting News]
Heh, heh. Except that if you're talking about an information technology hierarchy, I'm pretty sure librarians come before lawyers!
I think I'm going to highlight this article at our Tech Summit on blogging tomorrow! [The Shifted Librarian]