I’m here at NEASIS&T’s “Social Software, Libraries, and the Communities that (could) Sustain Them” event, presented by Steven Cohen.
He’s suggesting we read James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom of Crowds.
Surowiecki first developed his ideas for Wisdom of Crowds in his “Financial Page” column of The New Yorker. Many critics found his premise to be an interesting twist [...]

Posted November 18, 2005 by Casey Bisson
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First, Josh Porter, the first speaker of the day has a blog where he’s posted his presentation notes and some key points. Josh spoke about Web 2.0, and ended with the conclusion that successful online technologies are those that best model user behavior. “I think Web 2.0 is about modeling something that already exists in [...]

Posted November 18, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: asist, authentication service, buy hack or build, databases, hack, hacks, libraries, library, library catalog, library services, neasis&t, opac, opac hacks, university portal. Be the first one.

I was tempted to speak without slides yesterday, and I must offer my apologies to anybody trying to read them now, as I’m not sure how the slides make sense without the context of my speech. On that point, it’s worth knowing that Lichen did an outstanding job liveblogging the event, despite struggling with a [...]

Posted November 16, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: asist, authentication service, buy hack or build, databases, hack, hacks, identity management, libraries, library, library catalog, library services, neasis&t, opac, opac hacks, university portal. 5 Comments.

I’m here at the NEASIS&T Buy, Hack or Build event today at MIT’s Media Lab. On the list are Joshua Porter, Director of Web Development for User Interface Engineering, Pete Bell [corrected], co-founder of Endeca Solutions, and me.
I’m posting my slides here now, but I’m told we’ll see a podcast of the proceedings soon after [...]

Posted November 15, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: asist, buy hack or build, hack, hacks, libraries, library, neasis&t, opac, opac hacks. 6 Comments.