Just a note (positive or negative depending on your gender): The restrooms outside the Steinbeck room are both for Women. You’ll need to go down a level for the Men’s room.
Well, the morning was fun and informative as expected. The free WiFi works in the “conference center” as expected. It is available in the Steinbeck Room (where I’m spending the day) but it’s spotty. I got dropped once during the first session and once during the second one. I comfirmed this with others in the room so it is the service, not my laptop.
Also, there are not readily accessable power outlets in Steinbeck. So, on breaks it’s first come first serve for us slaves to the juice.
Lastly, here’s a tip for a fantastic conference: if you plan on spending lunch by yourself, try and hook up with some other attendees that are doing the same. I and two others showd up at India’s Clay Oven at the same time and we all started to sit down, by our selves, at individual tables. I suggested we all share a table and had some great conversation about the conference, where we were from, and what we all do. Don’t be shy, say hi.
Karen G, Schneider, Director, Librarian’s Internet Index
- Why ethics matter (micro)
- Why ethics matter (macro)
- The harder we work to make the world a moral place, the better it is for everyone
- “books are for use”: we are a profession defined by our concerns for others
- rules to blog by
- Transparancy
- Fairness
- Cite it
- Get it right
- Be Fair
- Admit Mistakes
- Two other codes of ethics
- Rebecca Blood
- Only facts you believe to be true
- Link to it
- …
- Cyberjournalist.net
- Be honest & fair
- Minimize harm
- Be accountable
- 5 things not to say
- It’s only a blog
- So and so does it
- Everyone understood what I menat
- They can always look it up
- Nobody trusts the web anyway
- Define: Transparancy
- “An activity is transparent if all information about it is open and freely available”
- “For most blogs, we want to know what the writer’s starting point is.”
- Transparence tools
- The blogosphere is skeptical
- Jeff Gannon
- Claimed to be a White House correspondent
- Transparency tools
- A clear about page
- Can be humorous
- Must be true
- Full disclosure about conflicts, biases or vested interests
- A commitment to honest about who you are and what drives your writing
- Lack of transparency can catch up with you
- Don’t try to be something your not, they will find you out
- Transparency can be Strategic
- Transparency minimized Fisking
- The act of critiquing in detail with intent of challenging its conclusion or theses by highlighting logical fallacies and incorrect facts
- Memogate
- Cite It
- Michael Gorman
- “Revenge of the Blog People”
- Tips for good citations
- Link to and name your sources
- Avoid anonymous sources
- Always check a secondary source
- Get it Right
- “The quality of being near to the true value”
- “Investigative reporting is not stenography”
- Being Wrong has Consequences
- “There is nothing more pathetic than a librarian who gets the facts wrong”
- How to get it right
- Check your facts
- Check your facts
- Check your facts
- Check your facts
- don’t publish until you check your facts
- re-check your facts after you publish
- Tips for accuracy
- dual source
- link to your sources
- Be Fair
- Define: fairness
- “the attitude of being just to all”
- “giving people an equal chance”
- “not letting partialit stand int he way of what is right”
- Fairness Tips
- let a source know when he is “on the record”
- you can be opinioniated but don’t present opinion as fact
- if you claim to be objective, then you better damn well present all sides of hte issue
- let your readers comment (within reason)
- Adimt Mistakes
- define: mistake
- “to choose wrongly”
- a mistake can be an error of judgement or fact
- Addressing mistakes in blogs
- be direct, alert your readers
- add to or modify posts
- explain the mistake and the correction
- Ethics Exception
- the intentionally unreliable narrator
- April Foolery
- RFID Implats: The New Library Cards
- Well-KNown Humor Sites
- When in doubt, Do what you know to be right
Social Computing & the Info Pro
Elizabeth Lane Lawley, Rochester Institute of Technology
- About a ½ dozen folks in the audience are blogging this, two years ago, there wasn’t anyone blogging her presentation
- It’s significant that social software is becoming part of the hallway conversation, not just the presentation
- Technorati indexed their 20 millionth blog yesterday. It was from an elementary class in France.
- Search for “liz” on Google and her blog is the third hit. That’s the power of blogs. Regularly updated relevant content that people link to
- She’ll be blogging her own talk. A first for her. (Not live though, “I’m not that good at multitasking.”)
- “The Long Tail”, Chris Anderson article in Wired magazine
- A few with a lot, most have a few
- The bulk of the content is in the most that have a few
- “I want to read the stuff that not everybody else already knows.”
- Librarians are good at knowing what’s in the long tail
- “if you liked that, you’ll like this”
- Social software is trying to create the computer equivalent of a good librarian. We won’t be there for quite a while.
- These tools augment, not replace
- “we need a human component. We need a social component” in these tools
- Blog: Creating Passionate Users (writer of the “head first” series of computer books)
- “we make the tools dumber because we think the users are dumber”
- You can’t change your users. You can educate them, but not change them
- Let’s make the tools foster better use.
- Make search better
- You go to friends before the web to find something to do @ conference
- That’s your social network
- How do you fin a good blog? Ask someone who’s also interested in that topic.
- Yahoo!’s My Web – bases results on list of trusted information sources (2 degrees – my friends and their friends)
- There are no bad links. Everything’s picked by my trusted resources
- Sent URLs by friends via e-mail, never going to get to it
- Now, put it into del.icio.us and then have your friends subscribe to it.
- “Information Network Discovery” – who are the experts in the field?
- See the resources. Also see the people who use those resources.
- Not all social networks are equal. They may be my friend and I’ll accept an IM form them but they may not be good at picking out good information
- del.icio.us – LaGrangeParkLibrary (username)
- Don’t bookmark at the desk, use del.icio.us instead
- Get to from any computer
- Patrons can get to from outside the library
- Social information filter for those that don’t want to save bookmarks
- [M: Note for my next reference book: USE THIS!]
- Link on library page: ad me to del.icio.us bookmarks (make me a trusted information resource)
- Wouldn’t it be great if your doctor would do this to point you to good resources? Or maybe the local health sciences organization?
- Warning: all this could focus you too much and remove outside, unexpected sources
- That’s where librarians come in.
- 1200 items in her del.icio.us account because she wants to share
- If you rely on tagging to find things, you loose the long tail
- Good folksonomy relies on critical mass
- Web design: what are people in del.icio.us calling it, this is what they’ll respond to, then call it that.
- If there isn’t a critical mass, it’s not tagged, and that’s what you’re relying on, you won’t find it
- Do I want a majority rules approach to naming things
- The ESP Game (Carnegie Mellon)
- Assign meaningful keywords to a random image
- Play against someone else
- When both of you pick the same word, you move to the next level
- When a word match happens several times, that word becomes taboo
- Lowest common denominator approach
- Shows interesting biases
- Pic of woman, typical response is “girl”
- Pic of man, “boy” almost never comes up
- Pic of black girl, racial slur comes up
- 43 Folders
- Lifehacker
- Continuous computing: just because it’s bad for you doesn’t mean it’s bad for everyone.
- Attention if a form of capital. I can’t demand your attention without giving you something in exchange. If I demand your attention, you’re going to find a way around it.
- Why do we want to control attention?
- The technology doesn’t let us do that any more!
- Negatives
- We all feel overwhelmed
- Everything’s competing for our attention
- Person on stage vs ceiling tiles vs email on smartphone
- NYT Article: “Meet the Lifehackers”
- People @ Microsoft who research how we deal with interruptions
- Bigger screens make you more productive
- The tools are out there but you still need to take control of what you need to do.
- Who better to control and influence tagging than the people who know classification (librarians)
It seems that yesterday I didn’t bother to mark my posts with “IL05” which might have led to some confusion as I received an e-mail from a vendor wondering about in which context I mentioned his product. (It was in my notes from one of yesterday’s presentations.) So, today, for those benefit of those of you finding individual posts without the benefit of context I’ll be marking all my titles in hopes of pointing people in the right direction.
As for what I’ve been up to at the conference since yesterday evening, I had a wonderful dinner of Wild Boar Stew at a local British pub down the street. (Unfortunately, I don’t recall the name of the place) with Karen (Houston, TX) and Amanda (Cortland, NY). Despite a potential gathering of the very interesting at the hotel bar, I decided to call it a night and collapse for a full eight hours of sleep.
After this morning’s keynote, I’ll be in the Steinbeck Forum for Track A: Communities & Collaboration (i.e. Bogging) all day. I do believe that there will be live WiFi in that room so I’ll be able to blog live. Hopefully, there’ll be a seat near an outlet so I can plug the laptop in all day as I did yesterday.
