No, not a dodgy reality gameshow but a conference on “making the most of your digital content” run by JISC and UKOLN.
At the time of writing it doesn’t look as though the speakers’ presentations are available online (either as video or slides) yet – I’ll post the links when available, as some of the sessions were particularly inspirational and/or thought provoking. One already available: Mike Ellis who put his slides on slideshare immediately, and whose presentation is well worth a look.
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A really inspirational deck on Slideshare from Amanda Hill about the opening up of content at Deseronto Archives (Canada).
Picks up directly on the themes of SORT 2010 about which I’ll be posting shortly.
If you love your “content”, let it go….
Just back from two days (well, a day and a half in my case) at the Survive or Thrive conference run by JISC/UKOLN. I want to reflect a bit more on the themes and the content of the conference, so that’s a post for another day.
Today’s post is just to reflect the laptop : smartphone : iPad : no device visibly in use ratio from day 1
27 : 4 : 1 : 22
And this wordle perhaps gives a flavour from the day 1 keynote and other scene-setting papers of the conference
SorT conference wordle
“We can multi-task” said my husband and his father cheerfully. “There are two of us”.
I’ve been doing some work recently on productivity and time management, bouncing some ideas around with miss dragonara about supporting colleagues in this area in a more practical/implementable way than some of the time management type of courses seem to achieve. I’ve also been doing some one-to-one work with colleagues with over-full email inboxes (4,357 items was the record in the inbox alone). This has all tied in with the 25 Things background of sources of information and things to do, as well as the work I’ve been doing on the JISC impact calculator and thinking about the effects of change management initiatives in this kind of area.
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As a follow-up to a previous posting on this topic, this news item caught my attention.
Europe’s Article 29 Data Protection Working Party has written to Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft, as well as the Federal Trade Commission. It asks them to consider their search data retention and anonymisation policies.
Although the Working Party is an independent advisory body without any direct powers of enforcement, its members are the data protection authorities across the EU that do have enforcement powers. Sadly its website is rather lacking in the kind of visual clout, user-friendliness and ease of access to information that the big companies do so well…
I picked up the existence of http://www.reclaimprivacy.org/ via Twitter – a handy utility that takes a few seconds to use. Definitely worth checking your facebook profile.
Also worth posting again the Information Commissioner’s Office Personal Information Toolkit – textual, but still useful.
During the time I worked in Rotherham a great stir was made about the publication of Julian Baggini’s book Welcome to Everytown: a journey into the English mind. Baggini is a philosopher who wanted to discover what the English really think – so he spent six months in S66, “the most typical postcode area in the country.”
In a chapter on holidaymaking and package tourism comes the following:
Sheep need not be herded, they can also be hefted. I first came across this word when I watched…The Dales Diary, which was all about rural Yorkshire life. A heft is the unfenced area sheep learn to keep themselves within. This was originally taught to them by shepherds, but as time goes by, they pass it on to each other and need no shepherding. Sheep who learn this are called hefted, and in much the same way, so are people. Their territorial boundaries are more complicated and flexible, but they too rarely stray beyond them, without a shepherd, even though there are no fences keeping them in. Individualism is a great myth. All that has really happened is that we have dispensed with the sheepdogs and become hefted.
If you accept Baggini’s view of individualism, does this apply in the web 2.0 world too?
First of all, a huge thank you to the 25 Things Tsars for running the programme! – it’s been a good experience. And also to my fellow Thingers who’ve shared their thoughts, their delicious favourites (and coffee/cake) and their ideas about some of the Things.
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Quite a lot of the 25 things to do this week! – so I’m a week behind.
I played with Library Thing a couple of years ago – but I’m afraid I couldn’t be bothered. I love books. I love reading. I love talking about books with other people. I even love rearranging the books on my shelves (can’t persuade my other half to let me arrange them by colour, just to see how it looks). But I don’t really get playing with book metadata online for fun. So I’m sorry 25 Things Tsars, I’ve done everything you asked until now but I’m ducking out of Library Thing this time around.
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Today a candidate who admitted “tweeting offensive comments” was removed from standing as a parliamentary candidate. Although Stuart MacLennan had removed his twitter account, cached pages and images remained available – and via a twitter storm in wider circulation than the original tweets (he has been in the top 10 “trending topics” in the UK since this morning).
Recently I finished reading Viktor Mayer-Schönberger’s Delete: the virtue of forgetting in the digital age (Princeton University Press 2009). The book explores the dimensions and implications of digital technology with the result encapsulated as “society’s ability to forget has become suspended, replaced by perfect memory.” Records people, if you haven’t read it yet it’s worth it (but watch out for the weird binding on the BL’s inter-library loan copy which disintegrates on your hands).
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