I have posted fuller entries on the presentations I attended at ASIST 2009, but wanted to bullet some of the highlights/takeaways. I also enjoyed the poster sessions and the notorious SIG/CON evening session, during which leading information scientists poke fun at their profession. I also highly recommend Vancouver as a destination.
- Plenary session: an audience member asked Tim Bray, “Distinguished Engineer” and Director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems: “Managing all these blogs, IM, cell phones, blogs – how do we do that? Also what about the human aspect of it? People just use their Blackberries all the time and are being rude
- Tim’s answer to part 1: You just need to buckle down and figure it out
- Tim’s answer to part 2: The technology is not the problem, it’s a behavioral / human problem.
- “STOP talking about the repository!!” - how major repositories are completely re-focusing and re-branding.
- Bonnie McKay and Carolyn Watters developed and tested a tool that provides support for multi-session web tasks such as "preparing to take a trip".
- Users in an online community can use a surprising array of sophisticated communication techniques, such as sarcasm, and “respected” users in a community can exert social influence through a pretty “thin” medium. (Rich Gazan)
- To what degree can log data profile a web searcher? See Jim Jansen's book
- Two major ways creators can increase the accessibility of Web 2.0 sites is to put in alt tags for images and don’t use the same phrase in multiple links on the same page
- we sell microblogging short because of the widespread mockery of Twitter
2 comments:
Will work diligently to buckle down and figure out how to stay "on top." Agree wholeheartedly that human behavior is 1/2 (maybe 3/4) of the technology "problem."
I think it's like how new college students may need to go to a workshop on "how to take notes" or "time management." We just don't always have workshops that fit! For example "how texting can improve YOUR life."
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