Tech Central Station was kind enough to publish "A Little Bit Broken, a Little Bit Perfect" -- my response to an article about the information literacy movement that appeared in the New York Times recently. The title of the article is from one of the Internet's inventors, Tim Berners-Lee, who once remarked that, "The Web will always be a little bit broken..."

The gist of the piece: "Information will continue to flow to the edges of the Internet and the pace of technological change will continue to occur at a breakneck pace. In the process, experts will appear in places you might not expect. Controlling access to information is no longer possible as it was even fifteen or twenty years ago. More importantly, controlling the way people think about information is no longer possible as it once was. Information, as many have pointed out, wants to be free, and the desire for freedom is a powerful force that can not be denied."