Bob: This post reminds me that 1.) Ideas matter more than people and the Internet gives us all the ability to disseminate our ideas and to build on the ideas of others and 2.) "Ideas are cheep." to quote a Mr. Hickey. Do you think 1 and 2 are contradictory? Site: "A blog a friend and I made on a whim certainly got its 15 minutes of fame, but I'm not sure he and I personally did. But maybe this is what Warhol meant by 15 minutes of fame, that one day ideas and creations would take off—but only the people behind the ideas and their friends really know or care about who's behind the creation or creations."
Google's earliest index has been released! Search what we knew of the Web in 2001. Thanks Bob S.
I can no longer say that I ban mass media! Weather reports via Twitter! Cool! Here's a list of a bunch of journalists and media outlets using Twitter. Looks like WCMH asked their whole staff to join up. Weather reports via Twitter!
My notes from ACPL LibraryCamp!
Bob: A very important sentence, to the Web: "We're just now starting to navigate all the intersections between sociology and engineering on the web."
This relates to EVERYTHING.
Giftag to support hProduct microformat!
Bob: Gerry McGovern wrote that community managers would be the next sought after professional. I think that was around 2004. Here Jeff Jarvis is saying the same thing from a different point of view. As I see more and more job postings for community managers, I'm thinking the time is nearly here. In 1998 I attended a meeting of Tribune Interactive content folks. The topic was community building. IMHO the future was yesterday, it just hasn't happened yet. Site: "There is still a role for editors, but it changes. ... there is a need to curate: to find the best and brightest ... to assemble networks from among staff and the public; that makes them community organisers. I also believe editors should play educator, helping to improve the work of the network."
The ResCarta Foundation, a non-profit organization, was founded to encourage the development of a single set of open community standards and open source implementations of those standards.
Bob: More proof that 'social search' is going to be how we discover information ... exactly how I discovered this article, through a tweet.
info lights
fixes for Flashing Orange light on dell
Facebook and the library catalogue - an interesting confluence from a programming point of view, and I learned a lot about how Facebook works (slightly alarmed by the mention of all the private data on my profile being dumped to the application server every time I access an application... I will be deleting some apps soon, I'm sure!).
my ala sessions and directions
Multiple Ohio blogs have posted entries in a foreign language today
Bob: Social search is coming whether users will know what to do wth it, will welcome it or not. And whether the big two want it or not. Site: "SearchTogether is designed for just such scenarios, although it is hardly limited to them. A rich set of integrated tools, it focuses on active collaboration among a small group of acquaintances who are working toward a shared goal, whether that be planning travel, making purchases, planning social events, researching medical conditions, or working together on a joint project."
U of Connecticut created a WorldCat.org list of their new titles and promoted it from their blog. But knowing that a picture is worth more, they have linked to a Flickr page as well. The only thing on that Flickr page? What appears to be a screenshot of a Covers Only view of the WorldCat list. Repurposed content. Very neat.
Big IDEA It’s the teaching, not the technology.
The Access Management Process (AMP) is defined as the abstract communication between a principle (or principle's agent, such as a metasearch engine) to a metasearch engine or to a service provider for the purpose of accessing a resource. An AMP defines the way a user ("principle") authenticates (establishes the right to use an identity) and is authorized (establishes the right for that identity to perform an action) to access a service or resource. In the case of the metasearch environment, there are two AMPs – one between the user and the metasearch engine and one between the metasearch engine and the resource provider – as depicted in Figure 1.
Bob: I need to read a lot more about this. Site: "In this post I analyze a new trend I’m seeing; three announcements that happened within a week of each other: MySpace’s Data Availability, Facebook’s Connect and Google’s Friend Connect - ALL THREE had fundamentally the same strategy!"
Bob: Illustrates opportunity cost better than anything ... if you've been paying attention to where the Internet is heading. Site: [quoting Information Rules] "'Before you engage in a standards battle, try to negotiate a truce and form an alliance with your would-be rival. An agreed-upon standard may lead to a far bigger overall market, making for a larger pie that you can split with your partners. Don’t be proud; be prepared to cut a deal even with your most bitter enemy.'"
Bob: How far apart are "intent" and "context?" I think they are pretty close conceptually. Site: "Understanding user intent also helps us break down language barriers and find the best possible answer regardless of what language it's in or where it lives on the web."
Bob: I wonder what Kelly Mooney thinks (ww.mooneythinks.com) about this. It reminds me of what I wrote back in 2006 (www.fuzzycontent.com/2006/10/23/from-seo-to-go/). Site: "Married women, however, are joining social networks in droves. In fact, women between ages 35 and 50 are the fastest-growing segment, especially on MySpace."
Site: Any really good new idea will seem bad to most people; otherwise someone would already be doing it.
I'm not wasting my time taking pictures of this thing. It's a dark blue/green plaid with some reddish stripes thrown in there too. The cushions are worn down so the padding is starting to come through a little. There is a gold colored sofa cover that never quite fit right and I left in in the washing machine too long before drying it so now it has that smell. I was going to just curb it but it's supposed to rain and someone might want it.
Big news this week as Grand Theft Auto IV breaks not just video game sales records but all entertainment industry (film, music, etc.) records for first day ($310 million) and first week ($500 million) sales. If Halo 3 didn’t do it, GTA surely cements the video game industry as a, maybe even the, leading force in entertainment. So what does this mean in terms of you and your local library? Quite a bit:
Looking at five key metrics we'll see that the activity level of the Facebook forums is a fraction of what it was at the beginning of 2008. The number of active users1 has declined 27% since January, for example. And this is the best-performing metric discussed.
Bob: Facebook is becoming a content management system. Did I miss this or is it just emerging? Don't know. But 'social content management' is becoming a reality. Site: "Users can use the Publisher to create rich content including posting photos, sharing videos, writing notes, and whatever content ideas applications can provide."
So if you also want to have statistics for feed subscribers to your RSS feeds, you would have to burn these manually through your Feedburner account as described earlier in this post.
Bob: Press room vs. Blogtropulus at Web 2.0. When will we see this switch happen at White House press conferences? Mind you. I said WHEN. Not if. Site: "another former traditional journalist is talking to a friend about the Old Media press room. 'It's like a wake in there,' he says. 'Talk about night and day.'"
There is a thread on the Web4Lib mailing list regarding Social Software Policies in libraries. It’s great how much info is out on the web!! If you’d like to see policies from other libraries,
Facebook has a new tool, Lexicon, that "looks at the usage of words and phrases on profile, group and event Walls." Similar to Google's Zeitgeist, Facebook's Lexicon shows how much people are talking about something.
Bob: Number 6, in the list of 10, might be my favoirte. Quick, fun read; and accurate IMHO. Site: "Breaking things is a privilege. Progress is about alternating breaking and fixing. Anything 100% working is 100% dead."
Did you know your library could do this? Click the "Excerpt" link and listen to Graham Chapman and the sheep falling from trees. Requires Windows Media Player.
How did we get to a social network that has needed value? If we take the same folksonomy approach and apply it to social networks we could see social network tools that actually have value. This would work as a narrow folksonomy (like Flickr) with a person tagging people with the connections they trust (or even those they do not trust with a "-" prefix).
So here's an organizational question for companies getting serious about social media: Where's IT?
Bob: This is 'social content management' but it is missing the BI piece. Site: "It was not until the middle of 2006 that IT executives and managers began to realize that lightweight, easy-to-use-and-integrate capabilities for finding information, pulling it apart and putting it together again in different ways, and exchanging that information to build useful knowledge would probably transform key areas of knowledge work and its attendant dynamics.
Bob: Funny. Those same people were always 'their peers'. They have only now cared to step out of their XLS files and pay attention. "Join the fray" is what I wrote back in 2005! Site: "Instead of top down communications and focusing on the influence and control of messages and perception, we’re learning that those influential groups of people are now our peers and therefore require respect, honesty, and support in order for us to earn their trust – and hopefully their business and enthusiasm along the way."
The recommendations space is a hot area right now. For instance, Loomia, which recommends web content based on what your friends read, just raised $5 million.
Current corporate social media adoption, attitudinal orientation towards social media & social media’s potential to meet business objectives.
Bob: I can't understand statements like this. Even if they are written by an authority in history and industrialization, or earth science or whatever discipline is address. This is such an ego-centric statement, the world and earth might be better if we didn't couch everything is such stark and self-centered language. Site: "...we are at the end of a world historical system that began 500 years ago..."
Bob: Good post from Lorcan Dempsy (redundant? Of coarse) posing relations to things and people and the purpose of networks. Site: "Here is Fred Stutzman in a post which contrasts ego-centric and object-centric social networks. Flickr or Librarything are object-centric networks, while Facebook is an ego-centric one."
The Library 2.0 Gang is a regular monthly round-table podcast hosted by Richard Wallis, joined by several contributors drawn from a pool of regulars from the world of libraries
Building a Web We Can Love: An Interview with Dimitri Glazkov
Site: We hope this will encourage sites who want to expose APIs for things like photos, videos, calendar, or contacts to reuse our schemas where they can, rather than reinventing the wheel.
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