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Take time out for Title Page TV
We're not all work and no play at FGI. So, here is something we have been waiting for and are excited that it is now online. It is http://www.titlepage.tv/ and they describe it and their first episode this way:
There's never been anything like it online. We bring together four of today's top authors at a time for unscripted, passionate conversations about their work. We couldn't be more proud of our first episode. Richard Price, Colin Harrison, Susan Choi, and Charles Bock gave us an inside look at their latest novels, but the conversation didn't stop there. Harrison taught us how to salvage a story by introducing a new character; Bock told us how his acclaimed first novel almost ended up in a drawer; Choi explained why she didn't identify the home country of her main character; and the very organized Price admitted that he writes "outlines for my outlines" when preparing a novel. Unlike many other sites, we do ask our visitors for an attention span. This first show runs to about an hour, but trust us -- the time flies. Today also marks the debut of our other features, including blogs, additional book recommendations, and interactive forums where you can start your own passionate conversations with fellow readers.Enjoy! Continue reading
Lunchtime Listen/Watch: danah boyd!
danah boyd has done some of the best and most creative research on social networking, particularly how teenagers are using technology. She is a PhD candidate at the School of Information (iSchool) at the University of California Berkeley. She describes her research this way:
My research focuses on how people negotiate a presentation of self to unknown audiences in mediated contexts. In particular, my dissertation examines how American teenagers socialize in networked publics like MySpace, Facebook, LiveJournal, Xanga and YouTube. I am interested in how the architectural differences between unmediated and mediated publics affect sociality, identity and culture.
She is a dynamic speaker, prolific blogger, and insightful, passionate researcher. If you have never heard danah speak, I recommend watching this brief video! It should be of interest to anyone who wants to understand how young people are using technology and that should be all librarians because that is affecting how they use (and expect to be able to use) the library and its services. (It starts off looking like it is going to be a beer ad, but stick with it; that's just showing where the interview was held.)
- Video Interview with danah boyd, Discover Magazine (Feb 12, 2008). 14 minutes. (here is an alternate link to the same video)
Lunchtime Listen: “Google Generation Myth” Report
This week the British library released a report of research designed "to identify how the specialist researchers of the future, currently in their school or pre-school years, are likely to access and interact with digital resources in five to ten years' time." (See "Google Generation Myth" Report.)
The Library has provided a recording of the press conference of the release of the report at the British Library on January 16, 2008.
- Recording of the Wednesday 16 January launch event (MP3, 77min 22sec, 66.3MB)
The recording includes:
- Lord Triesman, Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Innovation, Universities, and Skills: keynote speech (minutes 2-17)
- Ian Rowlands and Professor David Nicholas, the report's authors from the Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research (CIBER) at the University College London (minutes 17-30)
- Dr Malcolm Read, Executive Secretary, JISC (minutes 30-37)
- Dame Lynne Brindley DBE, Chief Executive British Library (minutes 37-46)
- Questions and Answers
Lunchtime listen: Laurence Lessig talks at TED
Yes we've talked a lot and linked a lot to Laurence Lessig but only because the issues he raises in terms of copyright are so compelling, especially for librarians. Here's a clip of his recent talk at the TED Conference in March, 2007, "How creativity is being strangled by the law." This will probably be his last public presentation about copyright seeing his much written-about announcement of a shift in academic focus from copyright to corruption. While we will miss his voice in support of the public domain -- not to mention his work with creative commons and the hilarious remixes -- we look forward to his no-doubt-equally-provocative presentations on his new bailiwick. Enjoy!
Lunchtime listen: “Good Copy Bad Copy”
Happy Friday! Please check out GOOD COPY BAD COPY - a documentary out of Denmark about the current state of copyright and culture. Our good friend Rick Falkvinge of the Swedish Pirate Party makes some extremely valid points about the need to balance individual privacy rights with copyright; right now, content owners like the RIAA and MPAA are stomping on individual privacy rights which is unacceptable to him and to many others. Many others on both sides of the argument make appearances on the film -- like Laurence Lessig, Siva Vaidhyanathan, and Dan Glickman (CEO of MPAA). We'd love to hear your ideas and perspective about file sharing and copyright.
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