Web cred

Serendipity. I've just finished two weeks teaching website evaluation techniques and strategies. On Monday I'll be traveling to a symposium in Seattle called "Internet Credibility and the User," sponsored by the the American Library Association Office for Information Technology Policy and the Information School of the University of Washington, and funded by the MacArthur Foundation. The 25 or so participants were assigned to read 8 papers that were commissioned for the symposium, so I've been immersed in all sorts of theory about what I do (or at least what I think I do). It's possible I'll be the only "practitioner" there (i.e., the only person who works on a daily basis with flesh-and-blood teenagers). Everyone else appears to be professors from various library schools and other university departments. I'm looking forward to having time to talk and think about these issues with some pretty interesting folks.

I'll be back with the flesh-and-bloods next Thursday.