http://elisaho.blogspot.com/2010/12/unit-14.html?showComment=1292377924142#c1591495884927098209
http://jrm170.blogspot.com/2010/12/126-reading-responses_11.html?showComment=1292378257342#c4319059066104277133
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
12/ 13 Reading Notes
What Cloud Computing Means
This strikes me as the webinization of the web, if I may make so little sense....
I was actually discussing this the other day in my super-interesting professional life: computing power is bound to one day be considered a utility, where we all pay for our required metered amounts of storage and computational oomph. That's part of this whole idea, right?
Explaining Cloud Computing
This guy is like a parody of himself; If you speed up the video, it looks like he's dancing or trying to peck the screen. Worth it.
At work, we sometimes farm out our 3D rendering to Amazon, because they can do it or 1/3 the cost and time. This is a very interesting development, and more than anything else so far this semester I feel like we're looking into what normal life will be like in 30 years when I'll be complaining about the good old days but am still really attractive.
Thomas Frey. The Future of Libraries: Beginning the Great Transformation
Wait: there's a National Intelligence Council? There is? Has anything non-eugenics-related ever sounded quite so pretentious?
I truly appreciated this reading, and for the first time wish we were in a physical classroom so that I could listen to better students discuss Mr Fry's outrageous proposals (most of which make sense). His thoughts on libraries shifting from centers of information (which is bound to be generically accessible) to cultural centers hopefully prescient, because it would be great to work in one. I do wonder, though, if he has given us all too much credit in his predictions. We are, after all, still fascinated by the daily lives of Kate Goslin and the president's kids.
Perhaps most importantly: how do you get to be a futurist? Is it too late to change majors, or do you earn it on a badge system, like my 'falconer' and 'parent' badges?
This strikes me as the webinization of the web, if I may make so little sense....
I was actually discussing this the other day in my super-interesting professional life: computing power is bound to one day be considered a utility, where we all pay for our required metered amounts of storage and computational oomph. That's part of this whole idea, right?
Explaining Cloud Computing
This guy is like a parody of himself; If you speed up the video, it looks like he's dancing or trying to peck the screen. Worth it.
At work, we sometimes farm out our 3D rendering to Amazon, because they can do it or 1/3 the cost and time. This is a very interesting development, and more than anything else so far this semester I feel like we're looking into what normal life will be like in 30 years when I'll be complaining about the good old days but am still really attractive.
Thomas Frey. The Future of Libraries: Beginning the Great Transformation
Wait: there's a National Intelligence Council? There is? Has anything non-eugenics-related ever sounded quite so pretentious?
I truly appreciated this reading, and for the first time wish we were in a physical classroom so that I could listen to better students discuss Mr Fry's outrageous proposals (most of which make sense). His thoughts on libraries shifting from centers of information (which is bound to be generically accessible) to cultural centers hopefully prescient, because it would be great to work in one. I do wonder, though, if he has given us all too much credit in his predictions. We are, after all, still fascinated by the daily lives of Kate Goslin and the president's kids.
Perhaps most importantly: how do you get to be a futurist? Is it too late to change majors, or do you earn it on a badge system, like my 'falconer' and 'parent' badges?
Last Muddy Point
My only thought is to wonder how connected to the universal digital community I should feel if my interaction is based on a "cloud" of material we all have access to?
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Muddiest Point 12-6
Do we need to submit one this week?
If so: Would it be that difficult for future MLIS students, or lowly interns to organize an accessory, alternative catalog of social tags for libraries, thereby taking the onus off professional librarians?
If so: Would it be that difficult for future MLIS students, or lowly interns to organize an accessory, alternative catalog of social tags for libraries, thereby taking the onus off professional librarians?
Saturday, December 4, 2010
12/06 Comments
http://kaitmlyons.blogspot.com/2010/12/reading-notes-126.html?showComment=1291472242903#c4204534045163550330
http://archivist-amy-in-training.blogspot.com/2010/11/week-13-it-issues-security-and-privacy.html?showComment=1291472650588#c726464282673994680
http://mszewczak.blogspot.com/2010/12/assignment-6-website.html?showComment=1291473035253#c6780121023146981940
http://archivist-amy-in-training.blogspot.com/2010/11/week-13-it-issues-security-and-privacy.html?showComment=1291472650588#c726464282673994680
http://mszewczak.blogspot.com/2010/12/assignment-6-website.html?showComment=1291473035253#c6780121023146981940
12/ 06 Reading Notes
No Place to Hide: Can You Believe Obama is Allowing This?
This sounds like the title to the best Steven Seagal film I never saw.
I can't get too worked up about this. There's not a lot going on at the point where national security intersects with my personal information. So much about the government bothers me that this doesn't stick out all that much. It is interesting, though, that librarians collectively soil themselves (which is almost never a dignified response) at the mention of releasing a patron's borrowing or browsing activity to the government, when clearly the government is only asking as a courtesy. It could easily find out anything it wants to by itself.
EPIC
This happens to be my Street/Rap alias.
Like Kaitlyn said, the goals and procedure outlined here are vague. I guess it would need to be so they can play loosely in court, if it comes to that. I can't bring myself to be too worried about this: the laws that define terrorism haven't been altered to include me...yet.
I do think that we as a society feel the right to know everything about anyone we want to, and that particularly private people are viewed with suspicion, yet we are outraged that the government is tracking our phones and the tiny transmitters in our dental work.
They're-Watching-You-tube
The lame-duck Congress had this public video removed, so I cannot speak directly to it, but I feel like my privacy rights have been violated because said video was "disappeared" before it could explain to me that my privacy rights are being violated.
This sounds like the title to the best Steven Seagal film I never saw.
I can't get too worked up about this. There's not a lot going on at the point where national security intersects with my personal information. So much about the government bothers me that this doesn't stick out all that much. It is interesting, though, that librarians collectively soil themselves (which is almost never a dignified response) at the mention of releasing a patron's borrowing or browsing activity to the government, when clearly the government is only asking as a courtesy. It could easily find out anything it wants to by itself.
EPIC
This happens to be my Street/Rap alias.
Like Kaitlyn said, the goals and procedure outlined here are vague. I guess it would need to be so they can play loosely in court, if it comes to that. I can't bring myself to be too worried about this: the laws that define terrorism haven't been altered to include me...yet.
I do think that we as a society feel the right to know everything about anyone we want to, and that particularly private people are viewed with suspicion, yet we are outraged that the government is tracking our phones and the tiny transmitters in our dental work.
They're-Watching-You-tube
The lame-duck Congress had this public video removed, so I cannot speak directly to it, but I feel like my privacy rights have been violated because said video was "disappeared" before it could explain to me that my privacy rights are being violated.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Muddiest Point from 11/29
It seems like Library 2.0 just the application of a meta-wiki with an administrator to the library. Is this really a game-changer for libraries?
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