abt. quotedInternet Bibliothekare
Was halten die Bibliothekare vom Web 2.0?: So, what’s new with Internet Librarians?
Elsewhere, librarians discussed creating online library catalogs that allow patrons to tag, comment, review, share, recommend, and otherwise create a virtual community around records in the catalog. Imagine browsing through a library catalog and seeing other people’s reviews or recommendations for similar items. Sounds like what happens on many Web sites now, places like Yahoo! Local, My Web 2.0, Flickr, Furl, Amazon.com, etc.
… My main take-away was that some librarians feel the major search companies are helping improve access to information, while other librarians are concerned about the monopolization and commercialization of information. This was particularly evident in the sessions and hallway conversations I heard about digitizing books
Das Internet der Dinge
Peter Glaser hat’s vor 15 Jahren geahnt, Kevin Kelly auch schon vor 10 (zumindest laut meinem schwammigen Erinnerungsvermögen), aber denkbar ist leichter als machbar, und jetzt klopft es wieder einmal an unsere Türen, the Internet of Things
computing through dedicated devices will slowly disappear, while information processing capabilities will emerge throughout our surrounding environment. With the benefit of integrated information processing capacity, industrial products will take on smart capabilities. They may also take on electronic identities that can be queried remotely, or be equipped with sensors for detecting physical changes around them. Such developments will make the merely static objects of today dynamic ones – embedding intelligence in our environment and stimulating the creation of innovative products and new business opportunities. The Internet of Things will enable forms of collaboration and communication between people and things, and between things themselves, hitherto unknown and unimagined.
Übersättigung
Fred Wilson und Ross Mayfield zur Aufmerksamkeitsübersättigung und wie viele Feeds dem Menschen zumutbar sind (150).
Zitat eines Entwicklungspsychologen:
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
(Computers, Communications and the Public Interest, pages 40-41, Martin Greenberger, ed., The Johns Hopkins Press, 1971.)
Astronauten
Joel (on Software) on Web 2.0
Now it’s tagging and folksonomies and syndication, and we’re all supposed to fall in line with the theory that cool new stuff like Google Maps, Wikipedia, and Del.icio.us are somehow bigger than the sum of their parts. The Long Tail! Attention Economy! Creative Commons! Peer production! Web 2.0!
The term Web 2.0 particularly bugs me. It’s not a real concept. It has no meaning. It’s a big, vague, nebulous cloud of pure architectural nothingness. When people use the term Web 2.0, I always feel a little bit stupider for the rest of the day.
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Not only that, the very 2.0 in Web 2.0 seems carefully crafted as a way to denegrate the clueless “Web 1.0” idiots, poor children, in the same way the first round of teenagers starting dotcoms in 1999 dissed their elders with the decade’s mantra, “They just don’t get it!”
Irgendwie ist das symptomatisch für ein ganzes Genre von Web 2.0 bashing nach dem Muster:
- eine Unterstellung: and we’re all supposed to fall in line with the theory
- ein Gefühl: When people use the term Web 2.0, I always feel a little bit stupider for the rest of the day.
- eine Verweigerung: seems carefully crafted as a way to denegrate the clueless “Web 1.0” idiots
denn er weiß, was er tun soll
Das passiert mir eigentlich selten, dass mir in Bloglines ein Lacher auskommt, aber den Ideengenerator hab ich gerade bei Don Alphonso wiedergefunden, wie immer eloquent umrahmt mit:
Das Beste zuerst: Es war kein echter Web2.0-Apologet auf dem Podium. Alles, was bislang an Bizz- und PR-Bloggern unterwegs war, wird nur ein müder Abklatsch dessen sein, was mit dem Idiotenterminus web2.0 (thx nico) vor der Tür steht. Denn mit dem Schlachtruf eines angeblich sozialen Fortschritts durch eine ebensolche Software strampeln und linken sich Freaks nach oben, die es wahrscheinlich nicht verwunden haben, dass ihre alte Tech-Bloggerei heute keine besondere Breitenwirkung mehr hat – Bloggen hat sich von ihnen emanzipiert. Deshalb, denke ich, wollen sie weg von den Inhalten und der Unterhaltung, die sie nicht bringen können, zurück zu etwas, wovon sie reden und Nichtnutzer als dumm, rückständig oder Version 0.98 diffamieren können. Was man halt so tut, wenn man in Ermangelung von Frauen a Lattnklatscher is einen Männerbund aufmacht.
Referenzmaterial
Immer wieder gute Einträge von Bert Webb, etwa auch: Keeping Important Reference Material Close at Hand (schon etwas älter).
To be truly effective one must have a system for this information so that it can be accessed at a moment’s notice:
– Thinking of your key areas of responsibility, list all information that you must use on a daily basis.
– Gather all the material listed above and place it in a file that is close to where you work; it should be within arm’s reach.
– Consider having copies of this file in strategic locations, especially if you work in various places (e.g., office, home, car).
– Consider placing the most important information in a location that is always with you.
Es ist ein ganz neues Web
It’s A Whole New Web sagt Business Week in einem (eigentlich guten) Artikel zum Web 2.0.
This potent new do-it-yourself trend is shaking up a raft of industries, from software and telecommunications to media, marketing, and entertainment. As people individually and collectively program their own Web, they’re increasingly calling the shots. In the process, they’re challenging the way media organizations cover and distribute news and entertainment, the way advertisers target pitches at them, and the way tech companies design and sell their products and services. Most of all, they’re rapidly changing their minds about what they will pay for and how. That’s disrupting long-established business models, from newspaper subscriptions to television advertising.
Getting Things Done: the Roadmap
Interessante Mitschrift zum Seminar Getting Things Done: the Roadmap auf dem O’Reilly Blog From the Belly of the Beasts [link tot; war: http://blogs.oreillynet.com/beasts/archives/2005/08/getting_things_1.html]. Auszüge:
- Teams always work better together in a crisis. The key is to figure out how to get high-performance behavior without the stress.
- Matrix of self-management: vertical axis is “Vision” – top is the visionary, bottom is the “don’t know what’s going on”. Horizontal axis is “Control” – at left is “out of control”, at right is “in complete control”. Quadrants: lower left: the Victim. Lower right: the Compulsive. Upper left: the Crazy-Maker (implementation is for schmucks!). Upper right: the Commander. Allen works with a lot of Crazy-Makers.
- If you decide you need to clean your garage, but you put it off for six years, there’s a part of your mind that thinks you should have been cleaning your garage 24/7 for six years. If you can park that on a list, it will get out of your “psychic RAM” – your brain can let go of it and more of its resources are available to work on other things.
- “As soon as you know how many agreements you’ve made, you’ll start making fewer!”
- There’s a real psychic “win” that comes from crossing things off a to-do list. Sometimes so much so that people will write down things they’ve already done just so they can check them off!
- “When in doubt, clean up your email.” (sometimes you just need to get active on something instead of wallowing)
- The higher level the view, the less complex your system needs to be. Your purpose/values level is probably just a text paragraph, but your daily emails and to-dos need more structure for tracking.
- Next action: has to be granular enough that the brain stops trying to think about it. You need to finish the thinking process.
- “How can I get my teenager on board with this?” “Tell them they’re not old enough for it.”
Wie man brav kommentiert
Lifehacker Editorin Gina Trapani zum Thema guter Blogizen: Lifehacker’s guide to weblog comments
Good blog commenters add to the discussion and are known as knowledgeable, informative, friendly and engaged. Build your own online social capital and become a great blog commenter by keeping these simple guidelines in mind before you post.
Die Guidelines sind dann alles no-brainer, aber stimmen natürlich trotzdem.
Interview mit Tim Berners-Lee
Interview mit Tim Berners-Lee – dem Vater des Web – zum Web und dem Lese/Schreib-Web bei BBC News.
It’s a new medium, it’s a universal medium and it’s not itself a medium which inherently makes people do good things, or bad things. It allows people to do what they want to do more efficiently. It allows people to exist in an information space which doesn’t know geographical boundaries. My hope is that it’ll be very positive in bringing people together around the planet, because it’ll make communication between different countries more possible.
Blasen Bloggen
Nico Lumma zum Bloggen in der Blase
Ich nenne das “Bloggen in der Blase” und stelle mir dann lauter Leute vor, die an ihren Rechnern sitzen, eingehült in eine schön weiche, wohlig warme Blase, in der sie so durch den Raum wirren, manchmal an andere Blasen stossend, aber ansonsten nichts hörend. Man sieht oder weiss, dass man nicht alleine ist, aber das war es dann auch schon. Es ist nett in der Blase, aber irgendwie auch langweilig, weil nichts passiert.
Blog Pause
Robert Scoble (die bloggende Ein-Mann-Armee zur Wiederherstellung der Beliebtheit von Microsoft) hat ein paar Tage mit dem Bloggen pausiert, um dem Phänomen Blog-Depression entgegenzuwirken und etwas Nabelschau zu betreiben.
Jetzt hat er wieder angefangen:
So, I went back and made a mental list of why I do this. A few of the top reasons? I like talking with smart people. Particularly those who build things. Whether it’s a radio station or a driver for a video card.
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The world of blogging is changing, though. It’s faster and there’s no way I can keep up with it all. I was putting a lot of pressure on myself to try. I’m giving that one up. There are tools coming that’ll keep you on top of this world (and I’ll point to them and use them).
Das Wissen, das nie fertig ist
Sehr guter Artikel zu Wikis bzw. der Wikipedia, wenn man überhaupt nicht weiß, was das ist: The Unfixedness of Knowledge: Discourse, Genre, and Mode in Wikipedia
Gegen Ende werden auch ein paar wissensepistemologische Themen angedacht:
This brings us to another important implication of the hypertextual mode of Wikipedia: that every page is the result of social dynamics that are never completed (even if a page is locked at some point, it can be unlocked later). Wikipedia does not declare any article finished
(retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia on April 19, 2005). This means that we are dealing with a ‘live’ mode, a mode that refuses to be fixed, and that is ever sensitive to social influences. Critics of Wikipedia claim that its content is worthless because it is not subjected to any form of authoritative review. For those who believe in the fixity of knowledge, this might be a reassuring argument. But I believe that the new mode of text embodied by Wikipedia can teach new generations about the responsibilities of social collaboration, the act of critical reading (applied even to Reference materials), and the permanently unfinished state of human knowledge.
Posten, Subscriben und Taggen
A VC benennt die 3 Kernelemente rund ums Bloggen: Posting, Subscribing, and Tagging
I believe that together posting, subscribing, and tagging will profoundly change the worlds of media, entertainment, commerce, and communication.
We are five years into the posting revolution, two to three years into the subscribing revolution, and maybe one year into the tagging revolution. We are just looking at the tip of the iceberg in terms of what can be done with these techniques.
So join the blogging revolution and get busy posting, subscribing, and tagging.
Denken in Feeds
Jeff Jarvis denkt über Feeds nach, und wie sich das Web verändern wird. Feeds sind dabei die treibende Kraft im Übergang zum Web 2.0.
Web 1.0 is built primarily on the former, the resources and articles and pages and mostly static things: It’s about stuff that sits and is found at an address. It’s about search. It’s about URLs and permalinks. It’s about Google and Yahoo before that. All that is valuable, always will be.
But Web 2.0 adds on the wonders of the latter: feeds (RSS, Atom, FeedBurner, et al); lists (OPML, etc.); conversations (blog posts, Technorati links, PubSub feeds, comments); swarming points (tags on Flickr, Del.icio.us, Technorati, Dinnerbuzz); heat sensors (Blogpulse et al); aggregations (e.g., Command-Post.org); communities (Craig’s List, et al); alerts (Craig’s List feeds); decentralized distribution (bittorrent, etc.); and on and on.
Das Burnout des Bloggers
Etwas älterer Artikel in Wired: Bloggers Suffer Burnout
“When it’s fun and it’s going really well, you feel (great), and when it’s not fun, it starts feeling like … when you have to go to a job every day from nine to five,” said Jason Kottke, the author of kottke.org and remaindered links, popular blogs about technology, culture, photography and other topics. “You start to feel like the readers are depending on you, and … like you have to post something whether you feel like it or not, and that can be depressing.”
Hipster PDA
Artikel zum Hipster PDA in der Washington Post
For years, Mann says, consumers have been trained to instinctively believe that technology can solve all a person’s problems — that a trip to Circuit City is all that stands between a person and organization. But Mann says that the hPDA is a “matter of using the right tool for the job” and “a philosophical decision about the kind of technology to let into your life.”
Analoge Ökonomien und digitale Welten
Sehr interessanter, ökonomiephilosophischer Artikel zu Digital Rights Management in der Bubblegum Generation.
… the economic assumption underpinning traditional property rights law is that you have to pay me if you use/exchange/modify a resource I own, because you impose a cost on me when you do so. Your use of the resource excludes mine. Hence, it’s always in my interest to exclude you from use/modification/exchange unless you compensate me.
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But this assumption of no net benefit to the rights holder does not hold true in a digital world. In a digital/networked world, funny things like network externalities, open standards, non-rivalrous consumption (your use of a resource doesn’t exclude mine) and strong complementarity begin to happen.
Das kratzt aber nur die Oberflche, selber lesen!
The Beginner’s Mind
Wer diese Woche einen einzigen Blogeintrag liest, sollte The Beginner’s Mind von Douglas Johnston in Betracht ziehen. Eine wunderbare Reflexion zur Einfachheit.
Murakami 4/11
Die New York Times hatte vor kurzem ein kleines Feature über Haruki Murakami, interessant ist vor allem sein Lebens- bzw. Schreibstil:
He wrote “Kafka [on the Shore]” in six months, starting, as he usually does, without a plan. He spent one year revising it. He follows a strict regimen. Going to bed around 9 p.m. – he never dreams, he said – he wakes up without an alarm clock around 4 a.m. He immediately turns on his Macintosh and writes until 11 a.m., producing every day 4,000 characters, or the equivalent of two to three pages in English.
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“I write the same amount every day without any day off,” he said. “I absolutely never look back and go forward. I hear Hemingway was like that.”
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Unlike Hemingway, Mr. Murakami leads a healthy lifestyle. In the afternoons, to build up his stamina to keep writing, he works out for one or two hours.