Or, more correctly, that would be Dr. Tufte goes to Washington (as part of President Obama’s Brain Trust to review the stimulus funding data.)
As I mentioned to one of my faculty colleagues here the other week, it looks as though open data efforts by the government are about to become very stimulating indeed!
We’ve finished Alex Halavais’s provocative Search Engine Society in LIS 5433, and one of the unfinished discussions (so many interesting things, so little time!) was to use his concept of “search intellectuals” to compile a list of the “top 10 search intellectuals.”
Some of the names that were suggested:
Sergey Brin (Google)
Vint Cerf (Google)
Tom Costello (Cuil)
Lorcan Dempsey (OCLC)
Brenda Dervin (Ohio State)
Jon Kleinberg (Cornell)
Thomas Mann (Library of Congress)
Tefko Saracevic (Rutgers)
Jerry Yang (Yahoo)
I don’t think this is a very good list, but probably that’s because “search intellectual” is too fuzzy a category. I tried googling it, but that didn’t help either, rofl!!
Oh, I’m on Facebook now (primarily in order to be a “fan” of OLISSA, our LIS student group, which has gotten quite proactive lately, though I’m also very happy to be friended by SLIS alums!) Wondering: if I had 500 “friends,” would that help my tenure case next year?
Undoubtedly not!
I think it’s somehow significant that Marc Porat is lnvesting in drywall these days.
Well, we’re statistical at last! 37 years later is certainly better than never…but I note that, unlike the NSF’s sponsorship of the Science & Engineering Indicators, it’s not a governmental organization sponsoring this. (And some of the categories look a little forced: volunteer literacy tutors? That’s like the NSF including citizen scientists tracking monarch butterfly migration in their count, I think. Not that both activities aren’t far more useful than a lot of heavily-funded academic projects, mind you!)
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Film at 11!
I read Mark Fenster’s Conspiracy Theories when it first came out, and am happy to see a second, updated edition has been published. (Those negative comments on Amazon that it is “academic” and “full of footnotes” actually serves as an incentive for some of us, Dr. Fenster!)
He also has two provocative articles on so-called “transparency theory,” which, as someone teaching introduction to information and the knowledge society in an LIS school right now, I find very intriguing, as he makes excellent use of Shannon’s information transmission model as a metaphor embedded in most of the sunshine laws today. The first article is called “The Opacity of Transparency” and the other is “Designing Transparency: The 9/11 Commission and Institutional Form.”.
Now somebody needs to apply this “transparency transmission” model to U.S. government information being accessed through public library computers to local communities…. calling John Bertot!
Peter Drucker’s grandson, Nova Spivack, is one of the founders of startup Twine, and his expressed aim is to move beyond his grandfather’s concept of the “knowledge worker” towards a more organizational view: that is, to promote collaborative intelligence through use of the semantic web and social networking. His own vision of the optimal result, the “meta-individual,” however, is pretty scary on any number of levels. Fortunately, Twine itself doesn’t seem to be taking off very well, so perhaps we still have some time before we’re not just bowing before our corporate robot overlords, but becoming them….
Reading Tarleton Gillespie’s Wired Shut about the technologizing of copyright, which leads me to continue pondering this conceit of a “viruses and the virtual society” 5033 class. For instance, what would be the copyright status of the poem in the Xenotext experiment? What kind of “fixed form” is this?
Absolutely no truth to the rumor that I am teaching KM/LIS 5033 as “Viruses and the Virtual Society” this spring, folks! (Though I am tempted ….)
