Inertia

In response to Amy Gahran's excellent blog, I would have to say that a number of things have to happen within the j-school to remain relevant. I often banter about institutional inertia and its evils -- it's one of the reasons that I became (or am becoming) a journalist. A major project of mine is a story about information science schools -- they call themselves iSchools -- isn't that cute? Information science is incredibly interdisciplinary. GSLIS here on campus is tied to a plethora of departments, each needing its number-crunching, database-building expertise. Am I saying we should be so promiscuous? No, but we do need to reach out.