Top 5 Reasons Why I’m Not Doing a Top 10 List for 2005

December 24th, 2005

Note: This will be my last diatribe. For now on, Library Stuff will contain content on resources, tools, and other information on keeping current. You will no longer see any posts like the ones that I wrote this week (comments like this will be reserved to others’ blog entries on these topics) about getting paid to present or a non-post about something that I want to say but can’t. I’m also not taking the rest of the year off and will be blogging throughout the next week right into 2006. So, without further gabbing, here is the Top 5 Reasons Why I’m Not Doing a Top 10 List for 2005, with no apologies.

1) I don’t want to be seen as one of those “blog-people” who “have created an alternative universe in which they are ’stars’ to each other and, reciprocally, ‘fans’ of each other” who are also “proverbial legends in their own minds.”

2) I don’t want to continuously link to the same library bloggers over and over and over again and, by doing so, actually egg on those who make comments like the one espoused in number 1 above.

3) I don’t want to link to any of my own posts from the past year, thus increasing my inlinks and outlinks, which, in turn make me feel better about myself that people actually link to me, even though it was a self link.

4) I don’t want to be part of library blogging cliques that only address those in their respective cliques and do not allow others into these cliques because they are not writing about topics that are interesting to those in these cliques, which, in turn, egg on those who make comments like those espoused in number 1 above.

5) I don’t want to be seen as pompous and self absorbed because I have 10 thoughts on what transpired in 2005 and feel that my list will be seen as so important that others will hopefully look at my list and republish their own thoughts about my list and say nice things about my list.

I hope that 2006 will be the year of non-cliques, openness to others ideas, more dinners at conferences with people whom I’ve never met before, the long-tail of the library blogging community becoming THE library blogging community, and future collaborations with those whom I have yet to shake hands with.

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