I’m a connector

I’ve just arrived in D.C., after a sleepless red-eye flight from Seattle. I’m always a little silly when I have no sleep, so I apologize in advance for any undue lightness of tone. The guy next to me on the first leg of my flight, when I told him I was going to Washington, D.C., remarked that it’s somewhere that every American is supposed to visit once. “So, cross it off your list,” he said.

I added my name to the list of people blogging ALA Annual. Not sure what obligations I have now, but I’ll try to write lots of long boring posts summarizing every single thing I attend. Then all you loyal readers can feel like you’re right here with me.

Actually, I’m going to try to finish up a post I started yesterday that has nothing to do with ALA. Yesterday, I discovered a new memo released by the Pew Internet and American Life Project entitled “Don’t Blame Me: It’s the Phone’s Fault!” which examines the results of a previous study that found that about half of Americans have “distant relationships” to technologies like the Internet, cell phones, iPods, etc. The Pew reports refer to these as “information and communication technologies,” or ICTs for short.