Comments on: Information Review does not care for it, but Lucy at Over the Backyward eFence does http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/2007/06/15/information-review-does-not-care-for-it-but-lucy-at-over-the-backyward-efence-does/ About David Weinberger's book (May, 2007) and how we're pulling ourselves together now that we've blown ourselves to bits Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:37:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: John O'Gorman http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/2007/06/15/information-review-does-not-care-for-it-but-lucy-at-over-the-backyward-efence-does/comment-page-1/#comment-11198 John O'Gorman Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:00:20 +0000 http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/2007/06/15/information-review-does-not-care-for-it-but-lucy-at-over-the-backyward-efence-does/#comment-11198 Professor Wilson's review is an excellent example of the kind of arteriosclerotic (invented a new one, I did) attitude that most students are exposed to in the course of their 'education'. You can almost hear the accent and smell the tea. It is easy to spot this kind of hyper- hypocritical blather when you can catch the author guilty of the same sins he finds reprehensible in others. The name of his organization is "Information Research" which by itself makes little sense until you read his 'sub-title' which informs us that he is in the "Books and Software Reviews" business. Ahh, now I get it. As is usually the case when someone is in love with his own cleverness, the good professor kind of misses the jist of the book in favour of flogging his own brand of shinola. You hit the proverbial dinger, Dave. Well done. Professor Wilson’s review is an excellent example of the kind of arteriosclerotic (invented a new one, I did) attitude that most students are exposed to in the course of their ‘education’. You can almost hear the accent and smell the tea.

It is easy to spot this kind of hyper- hypocritical blather when you can catch the author guilty of the same sins he finds reprehensible in others. The name of his organization is “Information Research” which by itself makes little sense until you read his ’sub-title’ which informs us that he is in the “Books and Software Reviews” business. Ahh, now I get it.

As is usually the case when someone is in love with his own cleverness, the good professor kind of misses the jist of the book in favour of flogging his own brand of shinola.

You hit the proverbial dinger, Dave. Well done.

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