LINTerviews are fun
I’ve been hoisted by my own petard.
Laurie the Librarian, asked me to do a “pick five questions from the list” interview for her blog. If you want to know how I answered the following questions, pop over to her blog and read Featured Visitor: Kathryn. :
- Why did you choose library and information science as your profession?
- Why do you read blogs?
- What do you see as the core business of libraries?
- What do you think is the most important issues affecting librarians today?
- What is your pet peeve about the blogosphere?
Laurie was inspired by the LINTerview series we are running on librariesinteract.info . I love these, partly because how we did it was typical of the laconic teamwork we’ve evolved.
“Hey, Peta and I were talking in the car and we thought…But we could make this change…Yeah OK…I’ve added some questions…Here’s some more…I’ve put it on the wiki…How about we ask…..I’ve asked so-and-so….Done!”
I also like being able to ask nosy questions of people I admire and find interesting. So far we’ve only had one person decline. I think I’ll try to send out another batch tonight, as I’ve been fascinated already by:
After answering Laurie’s questions, I understand how hard it is to be clear and casual and sound like yourself and say interesting things and not bore yourself silly.
If there’s someone you’d like to see LINTerviewed, drop a comment on this post or email: librarian at librariesinteract dot info. (Add the relevant punctuation.)
Kathryn – Love the answer to the last question
…When I write a carefully thought out or a totally contentious post, hardly anyone comments….but when I do a throw away post that takes hardly any effort – everyone comments on that one.
This is just so true. You slave over the post, no one appears to care, you do it in a rush, and its hit.. Maybe its the raw emotional nature of the latter, I don’t have the answer either.
Nice idea the question meme
Yep..see. First time you comment on one of my posts, it’s one that I didn’t have to do much thinking or philosophising about. I think you partly right – it’s the raw emotional nature, but also that those “low effort, high comment posts aren’t overthought and made heavy by extra frills.
I’m really learning from Twitter that people can often sensibly post in just 140 characters what they may have put in a five paragraph blog post before. And their personality still manages to shine through in those 140 character.
Kathryn, your short answers were more real and entertaining than the long, laboriously thought out replies given by others.
Don’t you mean “hoist (not hoisted) by my own petard”?
Thanks Maeve. I saw the other answers and thought I may have been flippant, but I couldn’t think of anything more to write.
Hmmm…if I was Hamlet, I’d probably mean “hoist”, but nowadays I think hoisted is accepted – although via the mutation of language, not correct usage. Next time I’ll use hoist.