Monday, December 15, 2003

Read what the Epistemographer (Joshua Greenberg, a 6th year PhD student in the Dept. of  Science and Technology Studies at Cornell U) says about The Great Library of Amazonia (see my previous post too). Two things: 1) academics like him already use Amazon.com to start general research (better than browsing university library shelves, he claims) and 2) will revolutionize scholarship practices same way Lexis-Nexis did for content analysis in Communication. Hm...I have to find out more about this. Online databases revolutionised and gave new life to references services but changed communication research?   comment []8:51:17 PM     Read all about the The Great Library of Amazonia and then read the Raw Brick review of that article and effort. I agree that while Amazon.com has accomplished great things for book buyers, a bookstore (digital or traditional) is not and cannot be a library! So, what is a library? Why is a library different from a bookstore? Why can't Amazon ever aspire to be a library? Shouldn't every library be doing what Bezos is trying to do for Amazon.com? Bring all the information in all the books to everyone's fingertips. Seriously, this is a great effort. comment []8:38:19 PM

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