Clinical Reader started off by making two fairly major mistakes — claiming a rating from an agency that does not give ratings and using copyrighted images without permission. The following antics on Twitter could, I suppose, be seen as simply shenanigans, but I tend to think that a) threatening legal action, b) impersonating other people, and c) refusing to reveal who you are are pretty serious problems. Sure, it's funny to watch it play out as a social software soap opera, but the issues are important, and these kinds of things will, I suspect, become only more important as more and more of our communication and our interaction with the world moves online.

The juvenile behavior that's sprung up with people taking over Twitter accounts and so on isn't important at all (just amusing, at least to me), but the actions of Clinical Reader itself have more import than twitter hacking.

But as I said in my last edit, I'm done now. Not because the core issues aren't still important, but because there's now an established pattern with very little variation, and there's more and more of the juvenile behavior fraying the edges. And maybe because I have a short attention span.

Now, where did I put that book I was reading before your comment showed up… Ah, there it is.

Happy trails.

Some people watch TV shows where contestants get voted off of islands; I watch drama unfold on the social web.

Then I go swing dancing with friends. :-)

But yes, I never claimed that this current bought of entertainment was a mark of maturity. Quite the opposite. I'll get back to blogging about libraries soon, I promise. But for now, I'm like the 6-year-old who'd really like to stay up just ten more minutes. PLEASE!!