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January 18, 2010
SYRUP drizzle
You know how when you pour golden Syrup on the porridge the little brown stream meanders around until it forms a puddle. I thought of that when I looked again a this entry on the SYRUP Dating blog
Posted by Perkins at January 18, 2010 7:51 PM
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I was about to pen a searing critique of CILIP (AKA SYRUP and the Judean People's Front), saying that I just could not stomach paying my dues this year to an organisation that endlessly talks such drivel (metadata, web 2.0, revalidation etc.), but that I had shot off an email and CV to Bob McKee stating that I was willing to join in the Big Conversation, to give them one last chance and to be constructive rather than just voting with my feet while CILIP sat around contemplating its navel and wondering why (as previously mentioned) it kept on losing members. I was just about to do this when I read the above post, checked the blog and found Tim Coates had (independently of me) suggested much the same thing.
Well, what about it guys? Are you really willing to have one or both of us facing you across the table, or is this just another excuse to dig up all the old corpses and zombies, produce another meaningless load of twaddle (if you want to do that, why don't you just paste Margaret Hodge's statements into your document?) and gorge yourselves on canapes in head office while the library service goes to hell?
I repeat: what about it? If nothing else, two of us rebels are willing to meet you halfway. Have you got the guts to do anything about it, or not?
Posted by: James Christie at January 20, 2010 6:25 PM