I had the pleasure of presenting at the second annual Knowledge and Project Management Symposium here in Tulsa last week, so here’s a link to my “Integrating Information Life Cycles” Powerpoint slides. As I said in my talk, I’ve been unsuccessful to date in actually creating an integrated model, but the reasons for this are so interesting that I really don’t mind (but I want to keep trying). Great symposium, thanks to the efforts of our own Dr. Suliman Hawamdeh and all the other people involved!
from Mark M. Konrad, a most impressively credentialed student of Michael Buckland’s, on inquiry.
Assimilation theory and LIS? Resistance is futile.
Too bad it’s not this easy to identify the most likely sources of spin in information channels OTHER than Wikipedia. Thanks, Virgil (and best of luck with that goal of becoming the top hit for “Virgil” on Google. Here’s my contribution to that effort!)
People are now starting to make their choice from among four recommended books for the 5433 course: Battelle, Krug, Morville, or Weinberger. The secret here is that it doesn’t really matter: when it comes to the information environment, they’re all deeply intertwingled. Nobody’s going to come out of the course without being affected by at least one of the books they don’t choose. (Or perhaps even by Ted Nelson’s 70th birthday lecture on YouTube, who knows?)
With Rupert Murdoch’s acquisition of the Wall Street Journal, people are speculating about the future of this journalism icon and its associated Dow Jones market data assets. Think it doesn’t matter? Data is crucial to the new media world, and content distribution is crucial to making big money in the information economy. This deal will reshape the financial information landscape over the next few years. Just ask Reuters, Bloomberg, and the New York Times.
Whenever I may think that I’m actually living the Memex life that I’ve fantasized about ever since reading Vannevar Bush’s “As We May Think” thirty years ago, I suddenly find out that I’ve totally missed some important news item: for example, that noted philosopher Richard Rorty died last week. And then I read something like this by one of Rorty’s former students, and I think a little more. Read more…
Like this, from Thomas Custer of Niche New Media, which represents some serious information entrepreneurship (from Columbia, Missouri, no less!)
Okay, this fall in 5433 there should be an information entrepreneurship track, and we’ll definitely be talking about Guy Kawasaki’s latest dotcom venture. Truemors reminds me somewhat of Pud Kaplan’s original dotcom startup, which was also a rumor-based site (specifically, about dotcoms in trouble, how’s that for both prescience and parody?) Read more…
If only Jilltxt would set this ACM conference presentation to music â€â€ÂÂ
or if Poesygalore would animate her Shelf Check cartoons â€â€ÂÂ
I think they might be big hits on YouTube.
On the other hand, I’m not sure whether adding vocals or animation to jny2cornell’s tag cloud visualization of Gonzales’s 4/19/07 Senate testimony would increase its impact.
(Hmm, perhaps I should have taken more communication theory courses at Newhouse when I had the chance….)
So far, the folks on Library 2.0 Ning appear to be having a much more interesting and in-depth discussion on the topic than is the JESSE thread. I especially like the part where they share strategies for bringing this up in various classes where it seems relevant. Read more…
