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Lunchtime Listen: LOCKSS in Six Minutes, with Cat
Free Range Librarian Karen G. Schneider sets at a kitchen table with her cat and a basket of eggs and gives a great, simple explanation of how LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) works, why your library needs to be a part of it and why it won't be hard. All in six minutes. Watch and learn. If you pick this as a lunchtime listen, you'll still have 54 minutes of your lunch hour to take care of other errands or read why privacy, access and preservation of government information need a geographically distributed depository library system of the future to be a reality. Continue reading
Lunchtime Listen: Meredith Farkas on Open Source and other trends
Well, this is another Lunchtime Watch rather than listen. But you do listen while you watch, don't you? Meredith Farkas was asked to give her top tech trends at LITA's famous trends forum at the American Library Association annual conference. Unfortunately for attendees but fortunately for the rest of us, Meredith couldn't be there in person and is giving her presentation via screencast:
Lunchtime listen: Cory Doctorow @ google
Technically, this is a lunchtime view :-) Cory Doctorow spoke @ Google on Monday, May 21, 2007. Cory spoke eloquently about copyright, intellectual "property," sci-fi etc. An hour with Cory is always a treat! Continue reading
Lunchtime Listens: introduction to cooperation studies
Ok, this is probably only a lunchtime listen for those of you on the West coast, but oh well. Howard Rheingold, who wrote "Smart Mobs", has put together a video on "Cooperation studies: A New Story About The Way Humans Get Things Done." Check it out; it's quite fascinating! And on a side note, Howard's hosting the video at Blip.tv, a free video hosting service that's far easier than setting up your own streaming server.
Lunchtime listen: Crisis of the Commons
Last week, Shinjoung and I were invited to participate at the Crisis of the California Commons Conference. Our panel discussion was with Megan Shaw Prelinger, Annalee Newitz and Bodo Balazs entitled, "Information Commons: Rebirth or Siren Song?" I think there was a lot of discussion about different commmons (environmental, cultural, information etc) that resonate for librarians in general and documents librarians (keepers of the public domain!). You can access the audio here. One of the best talks (well besides ours!) was Rick Prelinger's plenary on the cultural commons was especially interesting (at 44:20 of the audio file with Jeff Lustig, Jonathan Rowe, Ruth Rosen, and Iain Boal). Rick talked eloquently about interoperability, sampling, and openness, issues near and dear to our collective heart. Enjoy!
Commons requires interoperability so it can be open to all; you don't need a special key to enter the commons... Here's some examples of openness taken from the cultural domain: Openness means not just seeing the image of a bookpage but seeing the text too and being able to grab it, mix it, manipulate it. It means not just watching a movie but being able to download the shots and the edit list and make your own cut. It means not just the music but the MIDI. It means not just the freedom to read, listen, watch, feel, smell, taste, but the freedom to remix in all of these sensory domains. So in the world that we're entering, the digital world, it means that we have to be able to touch the digital object itself and touch the code that makes it play, display, or manifest itself. In other words, not just see things but be able to transform them.Continue reading
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