Revenge of the blog people: the rebuttal
// February 27th, 2005 // All
Michael Gorman’s LA times article (Google and God’s mind), drew ire from the blogoscape.
His brief argument against the google initiative, is understandable and perhaps even one with I can sort of empathise- although its reasoning is somewhat flawed, in that the rubric used is really very pertinent to the particular class of books, and discounting the google initiative on the back of this analysis is a bit a pre-emptive, especially as the majority of critism seems to focus on the implementation of the system, something nobody outside google really knows anything about.
That said, Gorman’s withering rebuttal of his critique in the blogosphere recently appeared at online-blog:
It is obvious that the Blog People read what they want to read rather than what is in front of them and judge me to be wrong on the basis of what they think rather than what I actually wrote. Given the quality of the writing in the blogs I have seen, I doubt that many of the Blog People are in the habit of sustained reading of complex texts. It is entirely possible that their intellectual needs are met by an accumulation of random facts and paragraphs. In that case, their rejection of my view is quite understandable.
ouch.
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