NCSU’s Chuck Amato got the Grey treatment, but Duke’s Coach K as been begging, I’m sure, to be the subject of an iPod commercial and more. Grey has outdone himself with this one.
Archive for February, 2006Just back from a moving reading by Joan Didion from her book, The Year of Magical Thinking, as part of her visit to UNC for the Morgan Writer-in-Residence Program. I’d read the book earlier. Sally gave it to me for Christmas which when I think of it is quite a odd book to be given. At that time, Sam Garrard had not died. We hadn’t been on our New Year’s walk at which a man about 10 year older than me rushed up the steep hill and fell dead just before we caught up with him. Before our friend and neighbor, David Galinsky was struck down crossing a poorly lit highway. Didion’s book is just right. As she answered questions, one was why did you write the book? To write your way out of grief? “No, I wrote it because I had some news to give.” After that and a few other exchanges, an aggitated nicely dressed man in his say early 60s bent over the question mic. He started: “Why did you read for a book that any of us could have bought and read for ourselves? Why didn’t you prepare a lecture? I came for a lecture.” (silence) I did check the various publicity and everywhere it said “reading.” Occassionally the word “lecture” also appears. Some times, the word “speak” is used.
Feb
28
2006
Future of Library Collections? 2Posted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, General, Information CommonsMore thoughts on my upcoming talk to the Librarians’ Association at UNC – Chapel Hill aka LAUNC-CH. The upcoming challenges in collections will involve the increasingly digital nature of our lives. following on projects like Microsoft’s my life bits with Gordon Bell and the promise of curation of all kinds of digital personal repreesntations and artifacts of self from Google and Yahoo!, library collections will be faced with doing work that is substantially different than the kind of triage and brokering between publisher and reader. Challenges will come not just in selection but in preservation and access across time as formats and rules for access change. One particularly tough problem for academic libraries will be to answer the requirement to Location of collections will also be a challenge. Expect more artifacts to be found in professors’ offices or their computers or co-located on several networked locations. [still thinking of course]
Feb
28
2006
Claiming my IDPosted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, Amusements, General, Information Commons, Virtual CommunitiesBeen claiming my Identity using Fred and Terrell’s new ClaimId site. Claiming Paul Jones is a bit more of a challenge that claiming say Fred Stutzman. There are many Paul Joneses to unClaim. I mentioned that I had just finished “Everything is Illuminated” by Jonathan Safran Foer. Almost immediately, Marcy wrote to ask what I thought of it. I don’t have time to give the book the review it deserves, but here are brief impressions: there is so much to like here: the style. the imagination. the smart way to recyle I B Singer’s magic visions, the deep look into the complex dreams and burdens of Eastern European youth. I cried several times many of those times from laughter. I too have owned a large friendly farting dog. But my ghosts are far less known, understood and remain unconfronted. One of the best books I’ve read in a while (and I’ve been on a tear through some very good books).
Feb
27
2006
Tuesday: Blogging 101 with Anton and BrianPosted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, General, Information Commons, Virtual CommunitiesAnton Zuiker writes with this alert:
Feb
27
2006
Bloggy is doing finePosted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, Amusements, General, News of NewsDespite articles in the national press claiming “Bloggy we hardly knew ye” and others in places like the Wall St Journal that argue otherwise, our bloggy is still doing fine. He has become more introspective lately, but the ibiblio ProductLabs bloggy is looking fine even if he/she has lost an eye.
Feb
27
2006
Ed and Dave in CIO InsightPosted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, Amusements, General, Information Commons, News of NewsEd Cone and Dave Winer each report that Ed Cone interviews Dave Winer (or that Dave Winer is interviewed by Ed Cone) and the results are published in CIO Insight. Marcy completed her Pink Stocking for the Knotting Olympics. She’s been blogging her knitting adventure day by day on her Notions blog.
Feb
26
2006
Things done and things left undonePosted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, Amusements, GeneralWhat a busy day! Much more that I could do needed to be done. First off to church where Tucker as acolyte and a very literary and seasonally appropriate sermon included not only a reference to most of the mountain peaks of importance in Scripture but also a description of being driven up one by a one armed taxi driver and a reading of Hopkins’ “Windhover.”
Feb
25
2006
Consumer Correspondent – Ken CleaverPosted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, Amusements, GeneralKen (or is it Kenneth) Cleaver has a wicked wit. He writes the letters that you might wish you would write to all kinds of organizations and tries to get them to respond. The Colorado Springs Independent seems to have the most complete archive of his work and the responses that he gets. Thanks to new neighbor and old friend, Warren Robinett for pointing me to Cleaver.
Feb
24
2006
AdamC reacts to the Fedora talkPosted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, General, Information CommonsAs International Man of Transparency, Adam C posts “Fedora: What’s in The Box?” and on the ITS Knowledge Management blog under the title of “An Open Source Digital Library” I used the slides that I said I would–here they are webified.
He had one of the iPod grants at Duke a year ago. At this year’s debriefing, “there is no such thing as a regular iPod — now video iPod, Nano, etc” Are podcasting journalists? Complains about media overload. Now admits that he was once a reporter but then fell into academia. Trad vs New media. In which New means everything from Cable to using your Blackberry. Newspapers now do multimedia. Digital only and those that are mixed with physical. Salon now owned by WashPost which he says makes it have an offline component. A bit about a portal site like Drudge that aggregates (and comments on). Rather as having fallen to bloggers. Now on IndyMedia (hosted on ibiblio.org). What is news and are they reporters? A look at the indymedia.org Is Bill O’Reilly or John Stewart a journalist? Data smog complaint. A bit about the Yes Men with out naming them shows Gatt.com. Now “Tuned Out” why college students don’t watch the news. Show IFRA news of the future from 2000. David is from the Duke New Bureau and is discussing RSS. He uses the personalized Google page with a lot of RRS feeds mostly of publications local and national. He points out that he doesn’t really go to the home pages of these publications, but that he builds his “personal newspaper.” Showing Charlotte Observer feeds page, NandO’s, WashPost, News and Record, etc. But now about personal publishing via RSS shows NCSU , UNC and Duke have feeds as does the NC Zoo. Next an aggregator. A mention of Tagging. Now about how Duke can use RSS to aggregate campus news sites like depts, schools, police etc.
Feb
24
2006
Jones alerts Parents!Posted by Paul in Amusements, General, Information Commons, Virtual CommunitiesWell, not exactly if you read what I said and if the tape captured my tone. The little piece that I did with NBC 17 went live last night.
Feb
23
2006
Carnaval Brazilla – This weekend!Posted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, Amusements, GeneralHeating up the town as we approach Mardi Gras. Mary Overby alerts us to opportunities to samba and more this weekend: Friday Feb 24 8 PM – 11 PM Saturday Feb 25 11 PM UNC’s Psychology Department will memorialize their former chair and collegue, David Galinsky who was struck down by a car on Fordham Blvd. What: David Galinsky Memorial
Feb
23
2006
The other Fedora (or is it the Real Fedora?)Posted by Paul in General, Information Commons, Virtual CommunitiesThorny Staples is here talking about Fedora which stands for “Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture”. A more formal talk later today. Flexible. Extensible. Object repository scheme. Formalized workflow via Fez and Fedora. What about preservation asks the local library folks. Thorny talks about long term cooperation and planning for changes and helping develop standards. ITS guy talks of Forbes article on the importance of digital preservation. From the Forbes article end:
Dspace v Fedora. IR clients like Fez promoted. Different federated searches and indexes promoted. What is Fedora’s culture asks Wallace. Thorny says folks who are already putting effort into websites and other repositories and had programmers on staff. A staff of say three using Fez could do a pretty good job says T. Thorny’s public talk upcoming |







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