the I Pod generation

Each generation comes with a different moniker. The "greatest Generation" followed by the silent gerneration, followed by the spoile Baby Boomers (the name stuck because the BB culture is still immature and cries a lot when they don't get what they want immediately). Then came Generation X, or GenX, the name from a novel which replaced other names such as baby busters...and again this fit, because it was a generation of nihilists born of spoiled parents who didn't convey traditions and limits, so were left in a moral void.

The generations cycle, and a book "the Millenials" predicted that this generation would be more like the WWII generation...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375707190/104-8705715-4298362?v=glance

The book, written before 9-11, said that they would rise to the challenge similar to their grandparents...and indeed they did, albeit with their own ways of doing things.

One result is "MIL BLOGS", which, along with Iraqi bloggers, give a different viewpoint on what is going on in Iraq than many Baghdad hotel reporters in the MSP... the Mudville Gazette has many of them on their bloglink list on the right...

http://www.mudvillegazette.com/

Technical journals, however, often insist on paper editions to get access, leading to libraries going broke...and library searches for information hasn't changed much since the original library of Alexandria. Why not open access to journals and digitalization of the books?

As a small town doctor with a very limited budget, I do not have access to many medical journals, since the nearest hospital library is 35 miles away. And most of my research is via web published textbooks and web published articles. But for many journals, like the Lancet, JAMA and the NEJM you have to shell out $100+ dollars a year (which I can't afford) for each paper journal to be sent to my office (which I will never have time to read), in order to get web access for the half dozen articles that I really want or need to read...my only "free" access to these journals is to look up an article in PubMed, and then request a copy by snail mail...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

How very very 1970's...here are articles that argue for open access...

http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/?vol=5&iss=3

http://www.biomedcentral.com/openaccess/miscell/?issue=20

This e journal discusses the library of the future...

http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/?vol=5&iss=3

One wonders about our university intellectuals who write articles like this....

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0435/essay.php

ver the past four years, I have warned humanities scholars and publishers to prepare for a future when publishers, like myself, would go from publishing too many books to too few.

Hello out there: ask your 15 year old...all you need is a computer, a modem, a free blog spot, or a $20 a month web page and voila, self publishing....(if you google "free web publishing books, you get 6,740 000 links). Of course, it's more fun to do marxist bashing of corporate funding and lament religious censorship...but why does a "hip" newspaper like the Village voice bother to publish such cluelessness ?

Probably because they too are stuck in the 1970's .

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001459.html

World of the future: I-pod, Napster, and Pajamahadeem...Pajama-Bloggers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your slippers...

(Photo from Lileks )http://www.lileks.com/bleats/archive/04/0904/091304.html

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