```json
{
    "title": "Open Minds in Academia",
    "url": "https://performancezen.com/2005/05/04/open-minds-in-academia/",
    "datePublished": "2005-05-04",
    "dateModified": "2005-05-04",
    "language": "en-US",
    "description": "The Dean of the School of Library and Information Sciences at Indiana University, Blaise Cronin, maintains an open mind about blogging. [here] One wonders for whom these hapless souls blog.…",
    "author": "spierzchala",
    "publisher": "Performance Zen"
}
```

# Open Minds in Academia

> One wonders for whom these hapless souls blog. Why do they choose to expose their unremarkable opinions, sententious drivel and unedifying private lives to the potential gaze of total strangers? What prompts this particular kind of digital exhibitionism? The present generation of bloggers seems to imagine that such crassly egotistical behavior is socially acceptable and that time-honored editorial and filtering functions have no place in cyberspace. Undoubtedly, these are the same individuals who believe that the free-for-all, communitarian approach of Wikipedia is the way forward. Librarians, of course, know better.