Relevant...

Are you relevant?
have a look at this vid...

"Relevance is a term used to describe how pertinent, connected, or applicable some information is to a given matter. It has unique significance in a variety of fields."
Wikipedia

Kathryn at Librarians Matter has an interesting post on relevance and being up to date.

Do you wear a watch? or do you use your mobile?
Do you use faster means to communicate than email (which is pretty fast, but 'old' now :-)
Can you look up a phone number on the web? Do you even have a phone book? (Yellow, thick, never has the number you need...)
Do you know what a Vodcast is, do you have the means to listen to a podcast?

Did I have to ask a 16 year old what the thing I was giving away at the library was? Promotional freebies from the Big City Library for the start of semester....
Turned out to be phone screen cleaner...lol Speaking of relevance... "thats what jeans are for", says a good friend...

How much of this is slipping past the not interested, not online...
The community talks about the 'digital divide' and it is very evident that there are levels and levels and levels.....
going to look at the news now, as I didn't know about the earthquake...
FeralTB-)