This afternoon I read a report of some kind of panel discussion at the American Library Association between three well known and highly visible librarians on the issue of “who controls the future of search.” Things were fairly ok up until I read the following statements:

“stephen: in the battle of the river and the rock, the river wins

joe: that’s deep”

These people expect to be taken seriously? Puhlease. I’m so glad I wasn’t present because otherwise I think I wouldn’t have been able to suppress a loud guffawed at this point in the conversation. Mind you, I realize that the quote above is taken out of context and that if I had been there I might have taken it differently. Go read the whole report on this conference session if interested. I am becoming increasingly intolerant of talking heads who spout their own particular brand of evangelism to an increasingly dimwitted and befuddled flock of sheep, er, librarians.

[Updated June 25, 2006: I found two other writeups of this same session for comparison. Check them out here and here.]