Google strikes again!

In what has to be yet another example of how privacy is disappearing, especially for the Americans (yeah, I hear you all sighing with pity), Google Earth might be recruited to help find missing US adventurer Steve Fossett. Friend Richard Branson also has friends at Google and is trying all avenues possible to find Fossett's plane or direction he was flying in. Hope they find him alive and well.

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Apparently librarians are a little sensitive about stereotypes... what the??

After a lot of fuss on the nz-libs listserv, with around 2000 subscribers, several items appeared in the news about librarians and their antagonistic attitude to a generous Paula Ryan offering to host a session at the LIANZA national conference on fashion and style...

apparently some objections were lost in the need for an entertaining story. Professionalism and dress sense are not as closely linked to some as hinted in the promotional email for the event.

What's more, there was not a whisper, not a skerrit, about what was most interesting to me personally... the gender bias of the event and how it was considered a suitable event to have at a professional conference. I voiced some objections on the listserv and a kind male colleague advised me that the flash-over-substance attitude is moving to the male-dominated arenas too... apparently it's quite common to get a group of male professionals together and tell them they need to wear more fashionable clothes at work.

What are we coming to when this sort of 'sizzle' is more important than the 'steak'?

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