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As for Laura, I appreciate her comments on my post, and all I can say is continue to strive for accuracy and transparency. Also trust your instincts. If you think someone is a tinfoilhead, you are probably right, and follow those instincts to their source. Writing is a little like sex–you are the sum of your sources. As for your post about the Tien/Warfield article, I don’t buy that it was a simple word error, but I have said my piece, I have let you say your piece, and I will let both statements stand.

I hope we can all get together at some point and have a beer–or three!

That’s what’s frustrating about this, in my opinion. Here are people of good will, mostly trying to provide excellent library service. We have a disagreement or a concern about RFID and its role.
Somehow, to support using RFID in a reasonable and responsible manner is to be in John Ashcroft’s pocket, while to not support it is to be a Luddite who doesn’t understand the realities of the economic world that librarians have to exist in.
Surely, somewhere there is middle ground to be explored. And, ground that we should explore now because more technology is coming and more concerns with them. And, as a profession, we aren’t dealing with the realities that are coming with them.
We have a suggestion box and on the one hand, people are saying “why did you buy RFID”, why are you helping the FBI and on the other hand they are saying “why don’t you have wireless access available”.
Anyway, Laura seems to be a lone voice among us trying to figure out the middle ground. Well, and of course, Karen, who I suspect of not really speaking of her concerns about RFID because of our friendship. So, whenever I speak about RFID, I say ‘and Karen Schneider says that it doesn’t matter if its just a barcode, it adds to that pool of information that can be collected about each of us and so, we shouldn’t participate”.
Let’s all go have that pint sometime soon.
Jackie

It wasn’t an “urge to break a story” per se, but more like making a quick link and being a tad ignorant with my choice of words — I honestly thought debunk could be used synonomously with dispute. I was using it in that sense since I’ve heard it used colloquially in that manner.

Imagine my horror when my failings were brought to my attention! My intent was to show that Tien and Warfield were disputing — I even used that word in the headline. My graver error was calling it an article rather than a commentary.

The only story I was attempted to portray in the blog was the back & forthing between the library and its detractors in the press.

I believe my treatment of the Berkeley Public Library has been balanced on the whole if you consider every piece I’ve ever written about it. I have directed readers to the commentary by Laura Anderson, president of the Berkeley Public Library Board of Trustees, published in the Daily Planet. I’ve provided links to the full information on RSI that the consultants provided during the SFPL board meetings. I’ve taken aim at the inflamatory language of Berkeleyans Organized for Library Defense (B.O.L.D.) I’ve lauded Jackie Griffiths fine reputation for upholding intellectual freedom. And in that last “debunked” post I even intimated that I suspected Warfield and Tien’s numbers were interpretations and that I was expecting a rebuttal to come from the library to the Berkeley Daily Planet.

This blog goes out in my spare moments during the day. My intent for the blog is to pass along information I encounter regarding libraries and RFID and give my thoughts/opinions about it. I don’t think a blog is ever neutral.

I don’t think I’ve ever made a claim to objectivity. I have been meaning to fully disclose my stance toward library RFID and my criteria for what I decide to post in the “about” section of he blog.

It’s also been a long term goal of mine to get multiple authors contributing to the blog. That way many perspectives can level out the subjective bias inherent and any one individuals’ writing. Life and my learning curve with the server and the blog software made that slower to happen then I would have liked.

That said, I really do make an effort to present all views. My undergraduate degree is in journalism and I’m fully aware of the responsibilities I take on when writing in the public sphere.

In this case, it’s an honest mistake. It even happens to the big boys. You see corrections, retractions,etc in the newspapers all the time. Pobody’s nerfect, including me

I’ve offered to buy Jackie a pint next time I’m in the Bay Area. Perhaps you could join us and we can discuss subjectivity in discourse and the failures of language .

Thanks so much for your commentary.