Sunday, February 3, 2008

BTH: The book is dead long live the book

Dr Sherman Young, Macquarie University, “Beyond 2.0: Songs from the Geek Chorus”

Dr Young has written a book titled The book is dead, long live the book and, in his own words, was at the conference to be controversial.

What is technology?
Does technology drive social change?

The importance of technology
How it is used
How we use it

Mobility means that there is a choice for info.
Unlimited access
Desire to connect

No clear transition point between web 1.0 and web 2.0.

Produsage

Wired 13/05 "We are the web (Kelly)
Digital ethnography (wesch)

Web 2 is about creativity; an edit culture

Diaries point inwards, blogs point outwards

WEB 3.0
'The semantic web'
Information behaviour of the researchers of the future

Web 1.0 Connectivity
Web 2.0 Creativity
Web 3.0 Collectivity

Can Google et al fulful the role?

Portable Apps (Is that a library in your pocket?)

The best way to predict the future is to invent it (Alan Kay)

Pitfalls of web 3.0
Invisible web
Open source

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Really interesting speaker I liked what he was saying and was already trying to apply it to my workplace.

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