Internet Librarian Monday Morning Session Congrunt
November 15th, 2004
Just over 1,000 atendees are attending the conference.
Thomas Hogan
Jane Dysart
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Have to blog offline for the keynote because there is NO WIFI in the keynote room. Very sad. Oh well (last time I checked, this was an INTERNET librarian conference). I’ll probably get online at the sessions today in the “Portabella” hotel.
Opening Keynote - Lee Rainie from the Pew Internet Project (Cool!!!) They put out lots of great reports that we link to on Docuticker (http://www.docuticker.com). Pew Internet and American Life Project.
Lee Rainie
- In the business of studying social interaction (must talk to him).
- “Please don’t take notes”, he says. We should be blogging this!!
- “83 million used the Internet to get info about the election.”
- “48 million used e-mail for religious needs”
- “36 million - support groups”
- “5 Million people have blogged or entered personal information/diaries onto the Web” (clapping)
- “Internet use in America is the norm.”
- “News from non-traditional places”
- “Better at doing things that they already care about”
- “Women love the social interaction of online games”
- “Weather.com is ‘weather pornographers’ for the older population”
- “E-mail is still the killer application” (why?)
- “The Digital Divide still exists”
- “There are still people on the ‘other side’ ”
- “Use of the internet is directly related to social capital” (YES!!!)
- “Internet users are NOT depressed/socially inept anymore”
- “The Internet is a joining tool - it is widening people’s horizons”
- “The Internet is expanding social networks” (new report to be released)
- “Let’s hear it for the bloggers again”
- “More people are not complaining about Information Overload” (SEE?!)
- “Book called ‘The Influentials’ (get this book!!!)
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I’m sitting here in David King’s session. I see only four other laptops. One is a blogger. So, 20% of all the laptops in the room are bloggers. Again, the last time I checked, this was the INTERNET librarian conference. Just like the Computers in Libraries conference, I asked D. Scott Brandt, “What do they call this conference again?” COMPUTERS in libraries. Oh well. Maybe attendees want to get away from their computers for a while. Maybe they don’t want to have to schlep their laptops around or have to possibility of having them stolen!
David King – Kansas City Public Library - Library Web Site Meets About.com – BTW, David is a blogger.
- “People were going to Yahoo and Google before going to the subject links pages” – Not a surprise.
- “About.com – guided approach to the Internet.
- “The blog movement” – Hey look what I just found.
- Focused up to date links on a topic.
- Links to library materials.
- All of their “Guides” have RSS feeds. Very nice.
- Added the Yahoo Entertainment RSS Feed to their entertainment page. – “why should we do it when it is already being done better elsewhere”. – Agreed.
- Web Watcher Software – He uses Infominder.com – I’ll talk to him about WSW and Watch That Page, although he probably knows about them.
- Statistics – What were the top 2?
o XML – SharpReader is one of the top aggies being used. (?)
o Articles – Need people need to write them (David, why not use bloggers)
Attendees at David Kings session.