Archive for November, 2006Sally, her mom, author Elizabeth Spencer and I were at the Chapel Hill Library Foundation fundraiser on Friday. John Grisham was the guest of honor at the event held at UNC President Erskine Bowles home. The place was packed and money was raised. “Significant amounts” according to delighted campaign organizer Melissa Cain. Among the items of special interest were pigs in a blanket which I hadn’t seen out on a table suited out with a cloth table cloth since I was maybe 12. Keebe Fitch assured me that pigs in blankets are retro-in in the New York area. “Seen at all the weddings” she told me. Why? “They really absorb alcohol.” Secrets of the chefs revealed. The Daily Tar Heel covers the party here (but has nothing to say about pigs in blankets.
Nov
12
2006
Others – Joneses, Gillmor, Winer on 3.0, Amy on Amazon researchingPosted by Paul in GeneralSally has a blog entry on Clyde Jones’ homecoming artworks and dinner with Dan Gillmor. Dan Gillmor has a piece on John Markoff’s Web 3.0 NYTimes article. Dave Winer has it in for Danny Hillis and John Markoff. Amy Tiemann wrote up a little about our lunch today and adding a nice long piece on how Amazon referals helped her do research — after we talked about Web 3.0.
Nov
11
2006
Dan Gillmor – Monday at 4Posted by Paul in General, Information Commons, News of News, Virtual Communities
Sponsor: ibiblio.org What: ISIS TechTuesdays featuring Paolo Mangiafico You probably have somewhere in a box photographs and letters left to you by your grandparents, and scholars have always counted on libraries and archives to preserve and provide access to documents and other media for study. Will future generations be able to see and use the terabytes of “born digital” data that our society is creating now? What will it take to make sure that digital materials are preserved and usable beyond the short lifespan of current technologies?
In the press release [PDF], NCLIS sets forth Four Principles: The four principles are:
Nov
09
2006
Open Source .com and .orgPosted by Paul in General, Information Commons, Virtual CommunitiesAs I’ve been preparing for my Open Source Licensing talk today, I’ve been struck by how many F/LOSS projects have a .org and a .com side. For Course Management Systems, Moodle operates in development mode as a .org and in a support and certification mode as a .com. For Customer Relationship Management, SugarCRM also operates as a community development site .org and a service and support and packaged product site as a .com. In Network Management, OpenNMS is a community supported project as a .org and in its commercial mode acts as steward of the project while providing training, professional services and support. Others?
Nov
08
2006
Ruby’s 2nd Life Roots CampPosted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, Amusements, FOO Camp, General, Virtual Communities
Ruby tells me that the purpose of this Roots Camp is to “de-brief on the election and get a jump-start on organizing for 2008 by interacting with and learn from other leading Progressives in a cutting edge virtual environment that is likely to play a major role in online political organizing for 2008.” Roots Camps are modeled directly on Bar Camp right down to the wiki and nearly to the logo. They’re about getting down to your netroots, if your roots are progressive (NewSpeak won’t allow you to say Liberal). Second Life is a 3D virtual environment built by the residents (NewSpeak won’t allow you to say Users). There were at last count about 1,305,950 citizens (they say people) inhabiting Second Life.
The best part is that I get to invite everyone to a reception at the end of the talk ;->
Nov
07
2006
Wiki for THURSDAY Carolina Innovations: Open Source Licensing: The Basics, The Benefits, The BuzzPosted by Paul in GeneralGot the wiki thing happening for my upcoming Open Source Licensing talk. Check it out and add to or add comments here. Upcoming speaking of Jones.
Nov
07
2006
Personal Penguin not = Linux Desktop — or is it?Posted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, GeneralDavid Menconi unearths this monster of the id, “I want to be your personal penguin,” [video and mp3 on this page] sung by Monkee Davy Jones. It’s unshakable but would be better performed with the Bonzo Doo Dah Dog Band. Davy, Sandra, Michael — Call the boys! They’re on tour now but will be available for recording and performance after the first of the year. Aimed at kids who have read and reread Sandra Boynton’s book, “Your Personal Penguin,” the song could easily become a theme for the Fedora Project and any other friendly Linux desktop project. Ubuntu? There are penguins in Africa. I saw them on the Cape.
Nov
06
2006
THURSDAY Carolina Innovations: Open Source Licensing: The Basics, The Benefits, The BuzzPosted by Paul in Amusements, General, Information Commons, Virtual CommunitiesAs part of the Office of Technology Development’s Carolina Innovations Seminars, I’ll be speaking on “Open Source Licensing: The Basics, The Benefits, The Buzz” on November 9 from 5:15 to 6:15 in 014 Sitterson Hall. In the spirit of Openness, please dear readers and potential attendees, use the comments here to let me know any specific questions or areas that you’d like to see covered. I don’t want to talk endlessly on the differences between GPL 2 and 3, for example, unless someone cares, but then if someone does I want to be sure to be prepared and to do a good job. Some helpful source material (pun intended) can be found at these links: For non-software, see Creative Commons, iCommons (international Creative Commons movement) , and the Science Commons Project. This is another experiment in opening the conversation like the one I just did down at Berry College where using the wiki really worked well. This time a blog post instead.
Nov
06
2006
Gillmor: “We the (Traditional) Media” on Nov 13Posted by Paul in General, News of News, Virtual Communities
Sponsor: ibiblio.org
Nov
06
2006
Craig Silverstein talk on YouTubePosted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, General, Information Commons, Virtual CommunitiesThanks to Garrett French for posting Google Tech Director Craig Silverstein’s talk on his blog and on YouTube. The talk is here in 5 segments and 9 questions from the Q and A following the talk. Gannett announcements, found in Wired and Romenesko, are setting the stages for some very serious ways of looking at citizen media. This is a major reorganization of a broad and big news company to take advantage of crowdsourcing. Of course, they’ll need to be aware of Wired’s Five Rules of the New Labor Pool. Dave Sifty’s State of the Blogosphere for October 2006 is out. Most of the Top 50 Blogs are from the Mainstream Media. English is still the major blogging language (tracked by Technorati) but it’s down to only 39% of the total. Joi Ito, the multi-talented international entrepreneur, is interviewed by Japan Times. YouTube has three different versions of the Bonzo Doo Dah Dog Band’s Equestrian Statue! Low budget near live. High budget music video (high for the 60s). Live mimed German TV version.
Nov
05
2006
Innovation and Rights (Digital and other)Posted by Paul in General, Information Commons, Virtual CommunitiesAndrew Chin and I will be speaking to Computer Science 380 classes on “Digital Rights and Innovation” soon. Andrew will be speaking on November 14 and I’m up on November 28. Both are scheduled for 5:00 pm in Sitterson 014. For my part, I’ve asked the students to read Chapters 1 and 8 of Eric von Hippel’s Democratizing Innovation. Chapter 1 is an Introduction and a Summary of the book by chapters that will give a great overview. Chapter 8 “Adapting Policy to User Innovation” is the meat of our discussion from a policy and law point of view. Both chapters and in fact the whole book can be bought or downloaded for free from Eric von Hippel’s site. I’m also asking folks in the class that have questions and/or issues that they’d like discussed to post them here as comments.
Nov
05
2006
Webology or Information Science?Posted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, General, Information CommonsSayan writes: I came across this article on BBC where TBL says “When you look at university courses, web science isn’t there – it seems to fall through the cracks ” The latter half of the article is entirely devoted to this idea. I think this is a good opportunity for SILS to pursue. Just my $0.02 Love to hear your take on the issue and what SILS is planning to do about this. I reply: The announcement from Southhampton and MIT gives a little more background. I see this announcement as Computer Science trying to pick up all the threads they lost when they ignored anything besides technology. Web 2.0 and News 2.0 and Business 2.0 use technologies but the secret sauce that makes GooTube, Flickr, Blogger, even NetFlix and Amazon work and be worth millions isn’t the technologies — I keep saying. Kathy Sierra has a nice and timely bit on her “Creating Passionate Users” blog called “Why does Science/math/engineering education education in the US suck?”. Kathy is on to what’s left out and why Information Science done right won’t turn out mere engineers. In UNC SILS, we like to think we are already there using sociology, psychology, history, story telling, systems thinking, etc starting from a human interaction perspective.
Nov
04
2006
Over 16.4 Million Requests Answered in One DayPosted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, General, Information CommonsYesterday November 3, 2006 ibiblio delivered answers to over 16,409,292 requests! That’s total hits (excludes errors like File Not Found etc and not including Internet Radio listeners or Bittorrent or Rsync transactions). Joneses held the Guiness certified world record for getting the most folks with the same last name in the same place. Over 1200 verified Joneses showed up in Cardiff for the event which “consigned Norbergs (previous record holders) to the dustbin of world record history.” There is no word on how many Paul Joneses were there. |













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