News from the New Coffeehouses What happens now our audiences are communities and our content is valued by its ability to drive a conversation? Enlightenment: meeting to discuss “L’Encyclopédie”. [Photograph]. Retrieved May 13, 2009, from Britannica Student Encyclopædia: http://student.britannica.com/elementary/art-86997 ]
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News from the New CoffeehousesWhat happens now our audiences are communities and our content is
valued by its ability to drive a conversation?
Enlightenment: meeting to discuss “L’Encyclopédie”. [Photograph]. Retrieved May 13, 2009, from Britannica Student Encyclopædia:
“We have never before had a single platform which could scale from conversation to broadcast and all points between, but social media gives us that -- it's like your telephone could turn into a radio, depending on how you configured it”
Actually, your telephone can do a fair bit more than that nowadays...
And now, a short film about a boy, a girl and a piece of high technology...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-4zfs3dGY8
What does this mean for identity management?
ScholarlyInformation
University
Browser based management?
Firefox
(Weave to manage id?)
Web App Management?
Mendeley?Academia.edu?Netvibes?iGoogle?Facebook?
Device Management?
iPhone?Kindle?
Publishers
Other SourcesOf ScholarlyInformationThere’s a choice…
Student…
Researcher…
The other 80%
?
In the Information Economy everything is plentiful - except
attention"In a few years you may be able to carry the Library of Congress around in your hip pocket. So? You're never gonna read the Library of Congress. You'll die long before you access one tenth of one percent of it. What's important --- increasingly important --- is the process by which you figure out what to look at. This is the beginning of the real and true economics of information. Not who owns the books, who prints the books, who has the holdings. The crux here is access, not holdings. And not even access itself, but the signposts that tell you what to access --- what to pay attention to. In the Information Economy everything is plentiful --- except attention." Bruce Sterling
The Street finds its own uses for things - uses the manufacturers never imagined...