Steven M. Cohen, PubSub Concepts, Inc.
- What happened today?
- http://stevenmcohen.pbwiki.com/WhatHappened
- Our wiki and blog didn’t work. Why? – http://internetlibrarian.pbwiki.com/ – http://openinternetlibrarian.blogspot.com/
- Is there a need?
- ITI blog and what makes it different
- Flickr and Technnrati worked
- Other wikis that work
- LibSuccess – www.libsuccess.org
- Unofficial
- Advantage: blog
- East to post
- Chronological order
- Automatic RSS feeds
- Comments to posts
- Only authors can edit the contents of a post
- Why might the blog work? Because it gives non-bloggers a place to post thoughts and it could be easy to audioblog.
- Why might a blog not work? Because bloggers already have a place to blog, and non-bloggers don’t want to blog.
- Advantage: Wiki
- Anyone, anywhere can contribute
- True equalized collaboration when accounts are not required
- Can create any order/flow to the information
- Why work: Anyone can connect @ conference or not
- Why not: Not sure what to add and where to add it.
- Advantage: Technorati
- Automatically brought together all posts from participating blogs if tagged
- It’s been a lot of fun
- Advantage: Flickr
- 105 photos in less than two days
- Mass tagging
- Human beings
- Ideas/comments from the audience
- Online tickler file
- FARQ: Frequently Asked Reference Questions (blog)
- RSS to email – RMail
- There is a module for MediaWiki that will output RSS feeds
- http://eSnips.com/
- Google announced web-based database service today [M: All your base belong to Google]
- Blog ownership content issues, what are they?
- What you write is yours
- Re-use
- Work product
- Trademark blog vs. Bloglines
- Creative Commons License
- “flickr owns your pics” – complaints – changed the language
- http://www.CiteULike.org/
- Scholarly version of del.icio.us
- www.connotea.org
- Powermarks – www.kaylon.com/power.html
- For-fee social bookmarking
- www.furl.net
- More powerful than del.icio.us
- But not social
- Library Thing
