I keep meaning to write down when these things happen… The march towards consolidation seems so obvious to me, and yet people are still confused when I suggest they can keep things separate. Deep Throat A few years ago now, in 2005, the world finally learned the identity of Deep Throat. He had remained pseudonymous [...]
Tagged consolidation, identity, peudonyms, why, why the lucky stiffThe recent and ongoing story that is the Iranian Election of 2009 has brought to the fore a variety of social media and 21st century technology issues. We’ve seen CNN get slammed (via the #CNNFail hashtag on Twitter) for not doing a timely job of covering the nascent election results and ensuing reaction on the [...]
Tagged authority, cnn, cnnfail, contextualauthoritytagging, iran, iranelection, reliability, twitterSo here’s something I’m not quite used to (yet?). Eugene Eric Kim has written a wonderful post on the Blue Oxen Associates blog about his use of my ideas around Contextual Authority Tagging in his work with organizations regarding reproductive health. Terrell’s premise is that reputation in context can be extremely valuable, often more valuable [...]
Tagged cat, contextualauthoritytagging, dissertation, eekimI’ve been in the library a lot in the last few weeks, but just managed to remember booking some flights for upcoming fun stuff on the west coast. Social Web FooCamp In only a couple weeks (gah, how’d that happen…) I’ll head back to the Social Web FooCamp. This is a great honor to be [...]
Tagged dissertation, foocamp, iiwTwo weeks ago the 2009 iConference was held at the Friday Center here in Chapel Hill, NC. There were lots of great posters and papers and hallway discussions. Jacob and I presented our poster and have since posted it online over at dlist. We ran a Mechanical Turk study with over 2000 responses to help [...]
Tagged iconf09, later button, posterI spent the past week in Denver, CO at the ALISE annual conference. There were many nervous PhD students interviewing for faculty positions – but I was not one of them – still have a ways to go. On Thursday, I presented the third paper to come out of the MPACT project, where we propose [...]
Tagged alise, mpact, paper, slidesI’ve often wondered about family photo albums. We store images and memories for later (for us, for others, for our children and their children). But what’s usually more interesting to me is what isn’t stored. When thinking about when the camera comes out at family events or gathering of friends, it’s usually during the happy [...]
Tagged delete, humanity, polaroidI love Seadragon. It feels so natural. I think it’s one of the things we’ll be seeing ‘everywhere’ as soon as we get our heads around how to use it. It’s got so much potential. Consider the following four “promises” of Seadragon: Speed of navigation is independent of the size or number of objects. Performance [...]
Tagged iphone, photosynth, seadragonIn the near future, we’ll all be able to host our own data. A few years ago it was very hard to do so, but possible, because nearly all the stuff being hosted was simple text with an occasional image or graphic. Then, our bandwidth increased and digital media creation tools were delivered into the [...]
Tagged allmystuff, dynamic, hosting, irods, oauth, OpenID, privacy, procmail, rules, rules engine, rulesets, sharingMark Pesce gave a keynote entitled “The Alexandrine Dilemma” at the New Librarians Symposium last Friday. He spoke about how Library Science, its skills and philosophy, are necessary for everyone to embrace and understand as we move forward in our networked world. Quite inspiring, as someone who’s selected that line of work, if I do [...]
Tagged librarians, library science, personal archiving, pesce, PIM, shirky
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