The Chronicle of Higher Education has a new article by Michael Patrick Lynch, author of The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data, which we currently have ‘available’ via print dda. This article’s a good read if you have 10 minutes, and I may well try to incorporate some of the takeaways from it in my W39-C classes.
One thing that stuck with me was the clause- in regard to Google searching- about “our human tendency to favor convenience without regard to consequences.” I myself started to send this out to our bibref-listserv, which is more convenient than posting on a blog, but then I remembered that our blog is arguably a better tool for making our collective staff insights more discoverable for posterity’s sake.