Tidens Hotteste IT-Trends

November 16, 2007 – 1:44 am

My presentation for today’s hottest IT trends is nearly completely new, though it draws a number of pieces from my building web 2.0-native library services and remixability presentations. What it adds is an (even more) intense focus on the people that make up the web.
Denmark is among the most wired countries of Europe, and it’s [...]

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Internet Librarian 2007 Presentation: Building Web 2.0 Native Library Services

October 31, 2007 – 6:48 am

The conference program says I’m speaking about designing an OPAC for Web 2.0, and I guess I am, but the approach this time is what have we learned so far? And though it’s the sort of thing only a fool would do, I’m also planning to demonstrate how to install Scriblio, a web 2.0 platform [...]

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Who Owns The Network?

October 5, 2007 – 6:52 am

Note: this cross-posted item is my contribution to our Banned Books Week recognition. We’ve been pitting books against each other, hoping to illustrate that there are always (at least) two sides to every story. Most of the other books were more social or political, but I liked this pair.

Wikinomics authors Don Tapscott and Anthony [...]

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Don’t Mistake Me (Please)

September 25, 2007 – 12:39 pm

Over at KLE’s Web 2.0 Challenge I was surprised to learn:
Both Bisson and Stephens are so excited about this concept of Web 2.0 they have not taken a good look at what they can?t do for our libraries. …with all this new technology we can not forget that what is the most important in our [...]

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NYT: The Link Is The Currency Of The Web

September 18, 2007 – 7:15 pm

The New York Times has struggled with TimesSelect, now they’re killing it. But the news here isn’t that a media giant is giving up on a much hyped online venture. The news is that a media giant is endorsing what we now call web 2.0:
Since we launched TimesSelect in 2005, the online landscape has altered [...]

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Whose Technology Is It Anyway?

July 11, 2007 – 12:55 pm

I wasn’t planning on posting much about Keen’s Cult of the Amateur, but I did. And now I find myself posting about it again. Thing is, I’m a sucker for historical analogy, and Clay Shirky yesterday posted a good one that compared the disruptive effects of mechanized cloth production to today’s internet.
Yes, that’s actually the [...]

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Keen Says I’m Killing Culture, Byte By Byte

July 10, 2007 – 1:25 pm

Andrew Keen’s The Cult of the Amateur; How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture is getting a lot of attention from usually quiet corners of the web, and I’ve had to quell the urge to write a story under the headline ?Andrew Keen Tells YouTubers to Eat Spinach.?
Keen’s argument rests on the belief that ?culture? [...]

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The Rules, 2007

June 20, 2007 – 12:01 pm

Contents:

Open Source
Built for Remixing
Well Behaved and Social

Web 2.0 has matured to the point where even those who endorse the moniker are beginning to cringe at its use. Still, it gave me pause the other day when Cliff (a sysop) began a sentence with ?Web 2.0 standards require….?
Web 2.0 is now coherent enough to have standards? [...]

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A Visual Explanation of Web 2.0

February 7, 2007 – 12:23 pm

Kansas State University’s Digital Ethnography group — ?a working group of Kansas State University students and faculty dedicated to exploring and extending the possibilities of digital ethnography? — posted this visual explanation of Web 2.0. It’s by Michael Wesh, assistant professor of cultural anthropology, and it rocks.
Text is unilinear…when written on paper.
Digital text is different.
Hypertext [...]

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Communities Are As Communities Do

January 28, 2007 – 12:41 pm

Right there are the beginning of Esther Dyson’s ten-year-old book, Release 2.1, she alerts us to the Web 2.0 challenge we’re we’re now beginning to understand:
The challenge for us all is to build a critical mass of healthy communities on the Net and to design good basic rules for its public spaces so that larger [...]

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Competition, Market Position, and Statistics

December 19, 2006 – 12:42 pm

Watch this video a few times. It’s funny. It’s catchy. It’s kitsch.
Now watch it a few times more. The ad, for a Lada VAZ 2109, appeared sometime in the 90s. It reflects the influence of MTV and other cultural imports from the West, but the details betray it’s command economy provenance. The snow appears trodden [...]

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Welcome To Your World

December 18, 2006 – 12:22 pm

In pointing this out to me, Lichen noted ?if this isn’t evidence that Web2.0 is an undeniable force, I don’t know what is.?
?This,? of course, is Time Magazine’s announcement of the 2006 Person of the Year. And the answer is you. Yes, you.
Michael Stephens was right on top of it, pulling this quote:
…But look [...]

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Presentation: Designing an OPAC for Web 2.0

October 27, 2006 – 4:17 pm

MAIUG 2006 Philadelphia: Designing an OPAC for Web 2.0 (interactive QuickTime with links or static PDF)
Web 2.0 and other ?2.0? monikers have become loaded terms. But as we look back at the world wide web of 1996, there can be little doubt that today’s web is better and more useful. Indeed, that seems to be [...]

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Technology Scouts At AALL

July 11, 2006 – 12:59 pm

I’m honored to join Katie Bauer, of Yale University Library, in a program coordinated by Mary Jane Kelsey, of Yale Law’s Lillian Goldman Library.
The full title of our program is Technology Scouts: how to keep your library and ILS current in the IT world (H-4, 4PM Tuesday, room 274). My portion of the presentation [...]

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I Want URL Addressable Spreadsheet Cells (and cell-ranges)

June 8, 2006 – 12:36 pm

When I heard news that Google was to release a spreadsheet companion to their freshly bought Writely web-based word processing app, I got excited about all the things they could do to make it more than just a copy of Numsum. Let’s face it, Google’s the Gorilla in the room here and they’re gonna squash [...]

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