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#Unacceptable IT is pervasive
6 weeks ago by jschneider
via https://twitter.com/#!/jkerrstevens/status/190719470237515776
ICT
government
data
IT
UK
change
6 weeks ago by jschneider
Go West, Middle-Aged Man
change
time
january 2012 by jschneider
"Change like this slows down time," he wrote. When you're in your routine, frequenting the same old haunts, time seems to accelerate -- was it just four years ago that our youngest son was born? But all the complexities of moving -- figuring out where to live, getting there, and then navigating all the new realities of the changed environment -- means that the minutes and hours that once passed as a kind of background process, the rote memory of knowing your place, suddenly are thrust into your conscious awareness. You have to figure it out, and figuring things out makes you aware of the passing days and months more acutely. You get disoriented, or at least you have to think for a while before you can be properly oriented again.
january 2012 by jschneider
Systemic Escape & Negotiation « Mark Klein’s Weblog
august 2011 by jschneider
"“Systemic escape” is probably the most challenging problem in enabling social change: every system, no matter how destructive, generally accretes vested interests that individually resist change even if it eventually will be better for all of them. It’s not enough to have a better end point, you also have to have a way of transitioning there that everyone can live with, step-by-step (unless change occurs because of crisis, economic breakdown or revolution or war)."
negotiation
decision-making
collaboration
change
august 2011 by jschneider
Xark!: Reading William Irwin Thompson
august 2011 by jschneider
"With the replacement of bookstores by supermarket chains, the only books that are now available are books by movie stars and TV celebrities. In a differance, the text is a sign of being famous, and the famous are simply those who are famous for being famous. An appearance on a TV show is itself an achievement, an epiphany of the culture. A text in this world is not to be read: it is simply another form of currency and a means of exchange. In the consequent breakup of culture into subcultures, intellectual respectability must come from its unavailability and its resistance to communication and exchange, much like the heavy gold stored under the Paradeplatz in Zurich, and so incomprehensibility becomes their essential value. Here, the Europeans come back into their own, and no American professors can hope to compete with the likes of Derrida and Habermas."
authorhood
authorship
authority
culture
change
august 2011 by jschneider
What is the Change that is RDA? | Metadata Matters
april 2011 by jschneider
" she, like most catalogers (and far too many library administrators), thinks of RDA as the successor to AACR2, the cataloging ‘rules’. I, on the other hand don’t care at all about the rules (there, I’ve said it, are you all happy now?) Instead I see the potential of RDA elsewhere: in the vocabularies specifically, and not incidentally in the revolution they represent in the way we envision our future in metadata. Put more succinctly, it’s not what we say, but how we say it, that makes RDA a big leap forward.""the negative view of the future stems from the lack of understanding of what will actually need to change to enable libraries to fully implement RDA, and what that change offers us at this critical time for libraries. A real RDA implementation, with the benefits already under extensive discussion in the library community, cannot, CANNOT, actually happen in a MARC environment with the inwardly focused assumptions in evidence in the discussion paper. "
RDA
metadata
education
cataloging
change
libraries
april 2011 by jschneider
The Penguin Blog: Picture books for the digital generation
november 2010 by jschneider
"There's no doubting that these new platforms will spell out a new world for picture books. They will no longer be bound by the contstraint of 32 pages, it can be what you like."
iPad
"book-sniffer"
genre
change
picture-books
november 2010 by jschneider
Masters of Media » The Wiki-Elite
november 2010 by jschneider
" This fragmentation of content pushes Wikipedia in a more distinct serious direction. It’s ironic that the encyclopedia that’s by and for users still has a hierarchy. If my entry gets deleted I will definitely feel rejected by these users in specific and Wikipedia in general. What gives this user the right to delete an entry I find relevant? He doesn’t own Wikipedia. It’s supposed to be a free encyclopedia that’s open for everyone, but that’s not the feeling I got from writing my first entry.
In combination with the not overly user friendly system of Wikipedia, lacking templates that would extremely simplify the adding and editing of content by less experienced users, these developments might make this ambitious online encyclopedia ironically enough a work of the elite – just like the traditional encyclopedia was and is. This new Wiki-elite might just spoil the fun and possibilities that Wikipedia gives the user. The regular contributors of Wikipedia have made the choice to make Wikipedia a more professional encyclopedia. They just have to watch that the most fun encyclopedia in existence doesn’t become a little too serious."
wikipedia
change
AfD
In combination with the not overly user friendly system of Wikipedia, lacking templates that would extremely simplify the adding and editing of content by less experienced users, these developments might make this ambitious online encyclopedia ironically enough a work of the elite – just like the traditional encyclopedia was and is. This new Wiki-elite might just spoil the fun and possibilities that Wikipedia gives the user. The regular contributors of Wikipedia have made the choice to make Wikipedia a more professional encyclopedia. They just have to watch that the most fun encyclopedia in existence doesn’t become a little too serious."
november 2010 by jschneider
Designing for Social Meaning « The News from Constantinople
november 2010 by jschneider
"an entirely new online collaboration platform–ConsiderIt, a platform for crowdsourcing the creation of key pro/con points, which currently powers the Living Voters Guide.""Just like individual users, users of social media develop their own conventions, use-cases and hacks to adapt the technology to their personal wants and needs. However, since these platforms are social and built around user-generated content, the number and complexity of these adaptations increase exponentially and acquire social, rather than just personal, significance. These social meanings have the power to recursively shape how individuals use the platform and often lead to the development of new uses that couldn’t have been conceived of in the original design.""Key Points:
Little design decisions matter. The fact that Twitter is public by default, or that tweets are limited to 140 characters, afford not only particular user behaviors but also very social activities. Your design not only sets the ultimate bounds of what your users can and cannot do, but suggests some technically possible usages while discouraging others.
Design for Incompleteness. When you build a social media platform, no matter what you design in, you’ll never know how people will use it until they do. Because these are social ecologies rather than single-user interfaces, the potential ways that users will adapt the communication channels and interactive mechanisms of the interface to their own purposes is an order of magnitude greater.
Pay attention to the content of user-generated content. You can pore over all the analytic data you want, study your inbound and outbound links, track growth, activity and how much time your users spend logged in, but in order to understand (and design for) how people are really using your site or service, you need to understand what they’re actually doing while they’re there."
collaboration
considerit
socialmedia
information-ecologies
change
Little design decisions matter. The fact that Twitter is public by default, or that tweets are limited to 140 characters, afford not only particular user behaviors but also very social activities. Your design not only sets the ultimate bounds of what your users can and cannot do, but suggests some technically possible usages while discouraging others.
Design for Incompleteness. When you build a social media platform, no matter what you design in, you’ll never know how people will use it until they do. Because these are social ecologies rather than single-user interfaces, the potential ways that users will adapt the communication channels and interactive mechanisms of the interface to their own purposes is an order of magnitude greater.
Pay attention to the content of user-generated content. You can pore over all the analytic data you want, study your inbound and outbound links, track growth, activity and how much time your users spend logged in, but in order to understand (and design for) how people are really using your site or service, you need to understand what they’re actually doing while they’re there."
november 2010 by jschneider
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october 2010 by jschneider
via presentations/papers from 'Affective Fabrics of Digital Cultures: Feelings, Technologies, Politics':
http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/events/digital_affect/index.html
embarrassment
change
newmedia
intimacy
privacy
http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/events/digital_affect/index.html
october 2010 by jschneider
The Penguin Blog: My, don't they grow up fast
october 2010 by jschneider
"as I cleared out my desk drawers preparing for my imminent departure I experienced a huge nostalgia rush as I discovered a selection of past and present ereading devices that have accumulated there over the years. From humble beginnings (I remember the thrill of selling four copies of a particular title in a week in the 2001 launch of Penguin's first ebook list) to today's 'magical' devices which can incorporate video (video!) into ebooks, it's clear that we've come a long way in a short time.
There's still plenty to do before ebooks are the primary format for the distribution of books (and it is my personal belief that this will one day inevitably come to pass) - publishers need to demonstrate to consumers that digital files have value in themselves, device interoperability would be a good thing and we still need to work turning the slow juggernaut of book publishing into agile digital workflow. But the changes I've been involved in and seen at first hand over the past thirteen years (and particular during the last couple of years) convince me that publishers have the will to make digital publishing succeed and that the audience is there for the sort of digital content that we can commission and distribute.""f in 1997 I'd been told that I'd be working on a wikinovel, or a data visualization of an autobiography or an alternate reality game or even on a blog read globally, I'd have thought that I was in a surreal dream."
Penguin
ebooks
ebookreaders
ebookreader-history
change
There's still plenty to do before ebooks are the primary format for the distribution of books (and it is my personal belief that this will one day inevitably come to pass) - publishers need to demonstrate to consumers that digital files have value in themselves, device interoperability would be a good thing and we still need to work turning the slow juggernaut of book publishing into agile digital workflow. But the changes I've been involved in and seen at first hand over the past thirteen years (and particular during the last couple of years) convince me that publishers have the will to make digital publishing succeed and that the audience is there for the sort of digital content that we can commission and distribute.""f in 1997 I'd been told that I'd be working on a wikinovel, or a data visualization of an autobiography or an alternate reality game or even on a blog read globally, I'd have thought that I was in a surreal dream."
october 2010 by jschneider
Big-Tent Problems « Easily Distracted
june 2010 by jschneider
"I think it’s not an accident that the group is informal and only subsidized indirectly by administrative funding. This is one of the points that I find myself making on a cyclical basis to foundation officers who want to help higher education change some of its practices of assessment or to embrace new models for organizing curricula and research. Frequently, the harder you try to make change happen, and the more formal your funding and structuring of such promotional efforts are, the less interesting and effective the results. If there isn’t some group of people already trying to do things differently, you can’t make it happen just with money."
change
innovation
code4lib
culture
june 2010 by jschneider
The war on baby girls: Gendercide | The Economist
march 2010 by jschneider
"China alone stands to have as many unmarried young men—“bare branches”, as they are known—as the entire population of young men in America. In any country rootless young males spell trouble; in Asian societies, where marriage and children are the recognised routes into society, single men are almost like outlaws. Crime rates, bride trafficking, sexual violence, even female suicide rates are all rising and will rise further as the lopsided generations reach their maturity (see article).
It is no exaggeration to call this gendercide.""Baby girls are thus victims of a malign combination of ancient prejudice and modern preferences for small families. Only one country has managed to change this pattern. In the 1990s South Korea had a sex ratio almost as skewed as China’s. Now, it is heading towards normality. It has achieved this not deliberately, but because the culture changed. Female education, anti-discrimination suits and equal-rights rulings made son preference seem old-fashioned and unnecessary. The forces of modernity first exacerbated prejudice—then overwhelmed it. "
Economist
abortion
gendercidee
via:@metaman
technology
change
It is no exaggeration to call this gendercide.""Baby girls are thus victims of a malign combination of ancient prejudice and modern preferences for small families. Only one country has managed to change this pattern. In the 1990s South Korea had a sex ratio almost as skewed as China’s. Now, it is heading towards normality. It has achieved this not deliberately, but because the culture changed. Female education, anti-discrimination suits and equal-rights rulings made son preference seem old-fashioned and unnecessary. The forces of modernity first exacerbated prejudice—then overwhelmed it. "
march 2010 by jschneider
Edge: THE SECOND COMING — A MANIFESTO By David Gelernter
march 2010 by jschneider
via http://www.slideshare.net/factoryjoe/activitystreams-is-it-getting-streamy-in-here slide 82-85, 87 "The Orwell law of the future: any new technology that can be tried will be." "You can see a book whole from the outside. You know in advance how a book is laid out — where the contents or the index will be — and how to "operate" one. As you work through it, you always know where you stand: how far you have gone and how much is left.""Miniaturization was the big theme in the first age of computers: rising power, falling prices, computers for everybody. Theme of the Second Age now approaching: computing transcends computers.""Our standard policy on file names has far-reaching consequences: doesn't merely force us to make up names where no name is called for; also imposes strong limits on our handling of an important class of documents — ones that arrive from the outside world. A newly-arrived email message (for example) can't stand on its own as a separate document — can't show up alongside other files in searches, sit by itself on the desktop, be opened or printed independently; it has no name, so it must be buried on arrival inside some existing file (the mail file) that does have a name. The same holds for incoming photos and faxes, Web bookmarks, scanned images...""The point of lifestreams isn't to shift from one software structure to another but to shift the whole premise of computerized information: to stop building glorified file cabinets and start building (simplified, abstract) artificial minds; and to store our electronic lives inside."" lifestreams can turn office paper into a temporary medium — for use, not storage. "On paper" is a good place for information you want to use; a bad place for information you want to store."
future
technology
culture
computing
change
sensor-networks
David
Gelernter
lifestreams
streams
march 2010 by jschneider
Proliferation of Internet memes makes it difficult to stay current - washingtonpost.com
february 2010 by jschneider
"The things we do see, we don't necessarily see together. Our communal cultural timeline is gradually dissolving. "Most water-cooler moments used to come from television," says Jeffrey Cole, director of the University of Southern California's Center for the Digital Future, speaking of the universal viewing experiences in which everyone used to see the same programs at the same time, from their living rooms. Now, we program our own viewing schedules, saving up "Glee" episodes to watch on Hulu, then getting annoyed when someone reveals "spoilers" for an episode that aired in November. """On the Internet, there is no viewing schedule and no expiration date. Nearly everything that was ever put up stays up. It's possible to spend your entire life catching up online, asking yourself, "Is this real life? Why is this happening? Is this gonna be forever?" ("David After Dentist," people.)""The typical viral video on YouTube receives 43 percent of its annual views within the first 10 days of its launch, according to research firm TubeMogul. The rest of the clicks are spread through the remaining days of the year, discovered by tag-alongs and come-latelies."
memes
media
massmedia
change
asynchronicity
youtube
popularity
february 2010 by jschneider
What’s been gnawing at me lately « India, Ink.
february 2010 by jschneider
"One of the things that I find gets more difficult year after year—and I can’t tell if this is more because I’m getting older, or because I’m letting myself be pelted with information faster and harder than ever before, or because I don’t write as regularly as I used to—is synthesizing ideas. I spend hours each day gathering information, and some days it seems like for every page I read on the Web, I open or bookmark two more to read later. Yet when an occasion arises for me to state what I think about what I’ve read, I most often end up blurting out whatever my gut tells me, rather than what’s the result of deliberate analysis and consideration—because who has time to ruminate?"
ipad
epub
thinking
change
writing
february 2010 by jschneider
The Oh Decade: Fear not for information – it always finds a highway - Sacramento Opinion - Sacramento Editorial | Sacramento Bee
december 2009 by jschneider
"Just think, around this time 10 years ago, most people connected online through painfully slow dial-up modems. Cell phones were the size of Fuji apples with no Web browsing capabilities. Being "social" online meant forwarding a chain e-mail."
internet
history
change
community-funded-reporting
media
future
december 2009 by jschneider
Op-Ed Columnist - The Protocol Society - NYTimes.com
december 2009 by jschneider
"In the 19th and 20th centuries we made stuff: corn and steel and trucks. Now, we make protocols: sets of instructions.""A protocol economy has very different properties than a physical stuff economy. For example, you and I can’t use the same piece of metal at the same time. But you and I can use the same software program at the same time. Physical stuff is subject to the laws of scarcity: you can use up your timber. But it’s hard to use up a good idea. Prices for material goods tend toward equilibrium, depending on supply and demand. Equilibrium doesn’t really apply to the market for new ideas."
economics
ip
nytimes
change
december 2009 by jschneider
wanderingstan» Blog Archive » American Idol, Starsky & Hutch: Agents for world change
november 2009 by jschneider
"I love the fact that Hollywood, which is blamed so for so much of what’s wrong in the world, is actually changing the world for better* in more powerful ways than many “direct” approaches such as NGO’s or military action.
*In this case, “better” meaning more democracy, and the general spread of concepts like equality and human rights. Hollywood’s “payload” contains many other ideas, such as materialism and moral relativity, that aren’t so universally loved. Stephenson is ambivalent on this.""Anyone who grows up watching TV, never sees any religion or philosophy, is raised in an atmosphere of moral relativism, learns about civics from watching bimbo eruptions on network TV news, and attends a university where postmodernists vie to outdo each other in demolishing traditional notions of truth and quality, is going to come out into the world as one pretty feckless human being. And–again–perhaps the goal of all this is to make us feckless so we won’t nuke each other."
media
change
Miranda-izing
*In this case, “better” meaning more democracy, and the general spread of concepts like equality and human rights. Hollywood’s “payload” contains many other ideas, such as materialism and moral relativity, that aren’t so universally loved. Stephenson is ambivalent on this.""Anyone who grows up watching TV, never sees any religion or philosophy, is raised in an atmosphere of moral relativism, learns about civics from watching bimbo eruptions on network TV news, and attends a university where postmodernists vie to outdo each other in demolishing traditional notions of truth and quality, is going to come out into the world as one pretty feckless human being. And–again–perhaps the goal of all this is to make us feckless so we won’t nuke each other."
november 2009 by jschneider
Mail Volume Expected to Continue Decline; U.S. Postal Service Adapting Services - washingtonpost.com
july 2009 by jschneider
"Mail Volume Expected to Decline; U.S. Postal Service Adapts by Pulling Collection Boxes" Reducing collection boxes will also reduce
USPS
mail
recession
change
Virtuous-cycles
july 2009 by jschneider
Science moves from the stacks to the Web; print too pricey - Ars Technica
july 2009 by jschneider
"It's tempting to ascribe some of the journals' decline to laziness—researchers being unwilling to make the effort to walk a few hundred meters (or, possibly, even a few floors) to visit the library. If anything, however, the converse is actually true. For those of you too young to remember, a trip to the library would often involve several hours of wandering among shelves that did not lend themselves to a linear, alphabetic organization of content; older and less popular journals often turned out to be stored off site. Spending a day in the library largely meant that other work was set aside for the day."
With online content, literature searches can be squeezed in among the frequent but short breaks that occur within experiments. If anything, avoiding a trip to the library allows people to work harder.
Libraries
change
ACS
science
research
With online content, literature searches can be squeezed in among the frequent but short breaks that occur within experiments. If anything, avoiding a trip to the library allows people to work harder.
july 2009 by jschneider
Michael Nielsen » Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted?
june 2009 by jschneider
When incremental change doesn't cut it. "It’s true that stupidity and malevolence do sometimes play a role in the disruption of industries. But in the first part of this essay I’ll argue that even smart and good organizations can fail in the face of disruptive change, and that there are common underlying structural reasons why that’s the case. That’s a much scarier story.""The problem is that your newspaper has an organizational architecture which is, to use the physicists’ phrase, a local optimum. Relatively small changes to that architecture - like firing your photographers - don’t make your situation better, they make it worse.""The only way to get from one organizational architecture to the other is to make drastic, painful changes."An early sign of impending disruption is when there’s a sudden flourishing of startup organizations serving an overlapping customer need...organizational architecture is radically different..."
change
Future
disruption
disruptive-change
disruptive-technology
lpnews
recommendations
scientific-communication
scientific-publishing
information-ecosystem
scholarly-communication
june 2009 by jschneider
National archives reviews purchases of paper materials in digital age
june 2009 by jschneider
"Library and Archives Canada has put a moratorium on buying paper documents and books for its collection.""the moratorium is temporary and only applies to items it buys. It will still acquire documents other ways, including gifts and donations, websites and government records.
Rimmer said the archives spends about $1 million a year buying publications, and is reviewing whether that will continue in the digital age."
print
publishing
canada
change
Rimmer said the archives spends about $1 million a year buying publications, and is reviewing whether that will continue in the digital age."
june 2009 by jschneider
Views: Toward a 21st Century Renaissance -- in My Day - Inside Higher Ed
may 2009 by jschneider
"“listen, it may be late afternoon; it may even be early evening. But it is still my day.” More to the point, the phrase made me realize that I am pretty old, and that made me think — I guess I am supposed to speak like a codger now and say instead, “that got me to thinking...” — about the changes in academe in my lifetime.""I prefer my nature in iambic pentameters""We probably already possess the right mechanism for a 21st century renaissance. It just needs some adjustments. I want to suggest two such adjustments. One is in the relation of the arts and sciences to the world; and another readjusts the arts and sciences in relation to themselves and to professional education.""I do not mean it ironically when I look to the liberal arts takeover of the world.""marry intellectual hedonism to the responsibility of the intellectual.""The university can become a porch society in relation to the disciplines."
academia
change
liberal-arts
deep-knowledge
intellectual-rigor
islands
may 2009 by jschneider
I don’t want to be a slow adopter « Words For Nerds
may 2009 by jschneider
"But if we accept that we’re going to be a few years behind every new tool and innovation that comes out, we’re only going to become more and more irrelevant. I like to think that the new generation of librarians, the people I’m graduating with in just four short weeks and those to follow, will change that slow-to-adopt habit. Sadly, I look around and see a lot of students who don’t seem all that interested in change. It is far from the case that everyone in my program is like that. There are tons of forward thinking, innovative and creative people here. But there are also too many people who grimace at the thought of the eBook, who shake there heads at bringing mobile technologies into the library, who think creating an Information Commons is a Really Great and New Idea! These people don’t give me a lot of hope that our profession will keep up to date. We can’t always be lagging behind our patrons, lagging behind the rest of the information economy."
change
future
technology
libraries
may 2009 by jschneider
Dust
april 2009 by jschneider
"They had in common: they were words, for me or for you, and now they’re mostly gone. When all this started, it seemed worth doing, and having; a long moment when weblogs were for the ages, when you were writing things worthy of codes of ethics, of archiving, of import. By now, a little learning has transpired. Facebook knows that everything has to happen all the time, or in the line of sight of every person. Twitter knows that some things are are worth writing, and sharing, yet not worth keeping. And those are the things from your life."
archiving
change
april 2009 by jschneider
Network management
april 2009 by jschneider
"On the web, he says, authority trickles up, not down. ""1. All ideas compete on an equal footing. 2. Contribution counts for more than credentials. 3. Hierarchies are natural, not prescribed. 4. Leaders serve rather than preside. 5. Tasks are chosen, not assigned. 6. Groups are self-defining and -organizing. 7. Resources get attracted, not allocated. 8. Power comes from sharing information, not hoarding it. 9. Opinions compound and decisions are peer-reviewed. 10. Users can veto most policy decisions. 11. Intrinsic rewards matter most. 12. Hackers are heroes."
future
management
Lorcan
Demsey
web
change
april 2009 by jschneider
Climate Change Ponzi Scheme - Forbes.com
april 2009 by jschneider
"So here's the idea I will give my son for dealing with this situation: intergenerational extortion. We have other intergenerational systems that are handy examples in his tool kit of solutions, starting with our health care and Social Security systems. In those cases, every generation that comes along forks over taxes to pay for the previous generation's end-of-life health care and Social Security benefits in exchange for the generation raising us. It's hardly a perfect system. It faces its own set of challenges in scaling and not turning into a Ponzi scheme. But still, it's an example."
humor
odd
change
Forbes
april 2009 by jschneider
We have seen the enemy
march 2009 by jschneider
"On the web, we have technology change what we do all the time. But other industries are not used to being threatened by it- having their whole business models be devoured by it." "We expect it to happen because we’ve adjusted to the rate of change of the modern world. It’s expected. But technology has not always done this to business; only recently is it starting to be felt, and companies are resorting to their usual tactics. But this time the enemy can’t be fought that way, because it isn’t another company. It’s something else. Their enemy is progress."
progress
publishing
information
change
business
business-models
march 2009 by jschneider
Transition Towns WIKI :: TransitionNetwork / TransitionNetwork
march 2009 by jschneider
"The mission of our embryonic charity is: * to inspire * to encourage * to network * to support and * to train communities as they consider, adopt, adapt and implement the transition model in order to establish a Transition Initiative in their locale. The transition model emboldens communities to look peak oil and climate change squarely in the eye and unleash the collective genius of their own people to find the answers to this big question: for all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how are we going to: * significantly rebuild resilience (in response to peak oil) * drastically reduce carbon emissions (in response to climate change)? Typically, self-determined solutions will involve some flavour of relocalisation."
localization
change
global-warming
technology
activism
march 2009 by jschneider
Hal Varian on information sharing
march 2009 by jschneider
Back in the early days of the Web, every document had at the bottom, “Copyright 1997. Do not redistribute.” Now every document has at the bottom, “Copyright 2008. Click here to send to your friends.”
–from an interview with Google’s chief economist, via flowingdata.org
copyright
change
–from an interview with Google’s chief economist, via flowingdata.org
march 2009 by jschneider
words :: The Absent User
march 2009 by jschneider
"There is no end in sight to the declines in circulation and reference that many libraries are experiencing. This presents considerable difficulties for anyone who is attempting to justify a new building or an improved materials budget. In these situations it becomes necessary to demonstrate how monumental increases in the usage of electronic collections and services balanced with sound investments in the print collections will provide optimum benefits to students and faculty."
space
library-as-place
electronic-resources
change
libraries
march 2009 by jschneider
The Online Photographer: The Trough of No Value
february 2009 by jschneider
"People sometimes ask me what the best method of preserving their pictures is, and my somewhat flip but I believe trenchant answer is, "be famous." One of the problems of historical preservation is that people only tend to preserve things that are valuable. And the problem with that is that value fluctuates over time.""(I have to chuckle whenever I read yet another description of American frontier log cabins as having been well crafted or sturdily or beautifully built. The much more likely truth is that 99% of frontier log cabins were horribly built—it's just that all of those fell down. The few that have survived intact were the ones that were well made. That doesn't mean all of them were."
value
history
collecting
preservation
history-is-written-by-survivors
photography
change
journalism
february 2009 by jschneider
Coding Horror: The Magpie Developer
february 2009 by jschneider
"I became a programmer because I love computers, and to love computers, you must love change. And I do. But I think the magpie developer sometimes loves change to the detriment of his own craft. "
change
fatigue
newness-fatigue
february 2009 by jschneider
Architectures for Collaboration: Roles and Expectations for Digital Libraries | EDUCAUSE CONNECT
january 2009 by jschneider
"Relevance, for libraries, is not about how many people read books or about how many people come through the library doors. What is important is to be able to find the books, search across them, and integrate them with other information. So often, when libraries figure out how to get something done, we congratulate ourselves and think that we can just go back out there, do the same thing again, and that will be fine. But technology continually wipes out our understanding of how libraries should engage the world."
publishing
digitization
collaboration
future
change
Peter
Brantley
digitallibraries
january 2009 by jschneider
At NELINET on Friday … | Metadata Matters
december 2008 by jschneider
"Though I’ve also criticized the JSC publicly myself, and don’t necessarily disagree with many of Heidi’s points, I think she’s way off base concluding that because of the acknowledged flaws, RDA is dead. I find it disturbing that someone who’s teaching the next generation of librarians has so thoroughly missed some of the important work going on around RDA (particularly the work of the DCMI/RDA Task Group, which I’m co-leading), and then focuses primarily on the failings of the JSC process in concluding that RDA is dead. I admit to occasionally getting far too adamant when commenting on this particular point of view, but it disturbs me greatly. I’m wondering if this change I’m starting to see—from trepidation to anticipation—has implications for how we think about training catalogers for RDA. I’m quite sure that, before we train, we need to prepare catalogers for the training itself by giving them a more general introduction to what has changed about their mission. I’m finding that a
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december 2008 by jschneider
Betamax, VHS and RDF
december 2008 by jschneider
"The consistency of these “wrong” decisions seemed to have passed Harry by as he was saying how all of these technologies were “the best”, but were subsequently beaten in the marketplace by inferior products. I suspect Harry still has a Betamax video recorder tucked away somewhere. What’s common across all of the products that succeeded is that they are superior in some way that the market defines, not in the way that Harry defined. They were successful in many respects simply because they were successful. That is, success begets success."
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december 2008 by jschneider
The Change Function
october 2008 by jschneider
"get inside the heads as to what users really want, looking for ways to reduce the total perceived pain of adopting a new way of doing things. As Pip puts it we want to understand the crisis at the adopter level, or specifically how a new offering solves a problem such that the pain in moving to a new technology is lower than the pain of staying in the status quo. He highlights how often technologists forget how large the gap is between them and real people, many of whom resent technology. The “build it and they will come” thinking prevails in the world of technologists. "
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technology
october 2008 by jschneider
To blog or not to blog ?
october 2008 by jschneider
"Un blog "privessionnel" se situe dans la sphère du professionnel plus que dans celle du privé."
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change
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october 2008 by jschneider
YouTube - Did You Know 2.0
october 2008 by jschneider
More than 70% of U.S. 4-year olds have used a computer
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october 2008 by jschneider
Worlds apart together
september 2008 by jschneider
"the 'net continues to change, and change us, in quite fundamental ways."
images
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change
september 2008 by jschneider
Augmented Social Cognition: Is Wikipedia Production Slowing Down?
september 2008 by jschneider
"ntil recently I had assumed that the growth of content on Wikipedia was exponential. It certainly looked that way over its early history, and other kinds of "knowledge publication" like scientific journals (or the Web) have shown consistent exponential growth. But it looks like there was a peak-drop-flattening that started around Spring 2007. I wrote short report on my blog, with some pointers to others who have also seen this "anomaly", but I haven't seen a satisfactory explanation for why this has happened. I'm interested in hearing from anyone who might have a bit of insight about what may have precipitated this change in the dynamics of Wikipedia content production."
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september 2008 by jschneider
Literacy Debate - Online, R U Really Reading? - Series - NYTimes.com
july 2008 by jschneider
"giving home Internet access to low-income students appeared to improve standardized reading test scores and school grades.""Children like Nadia lie at the heart of a passionate debate about just what it means to read in the digital age.""Some Web evangel
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july 2008 by jschneider
High culture meets low culture in a mass-media world - Los Angeles Times
july 2008 by jschneider
" I WONDER sometimes if we may have succeeded too well in getting rid of distinctions, though. It's hard for me to avoid a low-grade worry that we're losing our ability to recognize quality itself."
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july 2008 by jschneider
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