Web Wise 2.0 notes.

This is not a complete or accurate account of the web wise 2.0 2008 meeting. These are just notes on my notes. I have run a oblique tooth comb through it, and that's all I plan on doing. I just wanted to recap what I was jotting down. Enjoy how my brain works.
Here are the scanned images of the notes.


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question: is PubMed done in AS2 or 3.0?

question: do second lifers have a smaller or larger carbon footprint than other people?

quotes....

CU30S

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note to chrissy
CU30S

page 3

note about someone in front of me switching from IE to FF. "yay"

note to chrissy.

action: get Rob Stein's facebook.
find out if we can use Steve.museum's tag system with content DM/PHP pages/items
apps.facebook.com/stevemuseum coming soon. check it out.

note to self: learn python programming language.

quote: small is the new free- Seth Godin

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get bryan kennedy's twitter (aslo delicious) done and (not done)
check out: smm.org/buzz (done)
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note to self: web 2.0 is the new boom of the 90's with intelligent people running it, and less money being made.
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action: object of the month, we should do that. for TIDES
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check out: giant spiders on science buzz
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note to self/quote: "some things are worth trying, but not implementing" ----> what are the negatives for implementing something if it is not right/appropriate?.
-this was part of bryan kennedy's talk. he was talking about judicious use of web 2.0 programs and networks. i don't think we have to worry about the negative repercussions of any dabbling. then again, maybe we do. i'll have to look into this some more.
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steak knife example - bryan kennedy.
he was talking about the fact that people are afraid of the users on the net. but at the same time, they are not afraid of the steak knives at restaurants. aren't they more dangerous?
-i think this is a good way to defuse some people who aren't up to snuff on what the net means today and why they should embrace it instead of "worrying and fearing the bomb"
xbryanx is his twitter (done)

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note to chrissy: "if the world exploded right now, and everybody was vaporized, how weird would that be? and what a place to be/talk to be listening to."
-hmmm. i guess this was poignant at the time. meh.
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action: tell Anne about Quilt index. >60k quilts.
also tell Max's mom
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note: "building web 2.0 ontop (of current sites/organizations) isn't the point that it is from the beginning?"
-this was me wondering why people would try to add web 2.0 to their projects. i think that part of the whole deal is that it starts 2.0, and has an inherent 2.0ness that you can't add. but some people have done it. i just wouldn't want to do it. hmmm. i'm not articulating this well. i'll think about it and try later.

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note to self: the guy in front of us keeps checking the "yahoo" homepage. - how web 1.0
-sucka!!! i bet he learned. although, this note is from the second day. must have missed the part of the expo where i got on a chair and demanded that everyone delete IE by penalty of lightsaber to the nuts.
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"david reeds law- not just the ribbons of concrete, but the social/cultural pockets around it."
- i was writing down paul jones' (smalljones. jajajaja) point about david reeds' laws of the net. this might have been one of the most important lessons of the conference. the american highway system is more than just roads, it is the towns and cities that make up those roads. lots of thinking can be done on this topic. the number of computers hooked up to a network make up the power of the network (squared?)
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check out: Matrix program- Quilt index
question/note to self: "are quilts a litmus test for american society? the ultimate? what else could it be? cars? homes? food? why quilts? matrix.msu.edu (not checked yet)
- i was wondering why they picked quilts. the guy talking was really cool and he got really excited about how/why quilts and a spatial and temporal mapping of them could tell us about society. like what happened to quilts after 911. he said they were more patriotic, especially outside of cities. lots of american themes. what about after ex-slaves moved north. did styles change? can that be a way to find out where they moved most? things like that?
part of what i was wondering was what else could be used to ask the same questions. i think food is a good one. and living room sets. why did they pick quilts? maybe the robust community of quilters he was talking about. i'll have to ask him.
action- ask him
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biodiversity library
(here i skipped around and made some train of thought notes. but picked up from the next page is this):
biodiversity- scanning costs lower than open library project.
- i'm not sure if this is important, but two people presenting told us about .15 cent/page and .30 cent/page book scanning. why are the prices so different? work together people!!!
later in the meeting i think i caught something about one of those numbers being out of date. maybe that answers my question.

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(back to the flow of the notes)
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note to self: don't forget that link smalljones sent on twitter
action: don't forget!
- it was a link about reeds law. jones was sitting behind me and a speaker was talking about the law indirectly, i turned and asked jones about the name of the guy. then jones sent me an @ on twitter. i'll have to read it later. i think it was a wiki article.

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note to self: "none of my notes will make sense by the time i get back from the llama trek"
-well. note quite you old dog. you're doing good by writing these recap notes.
-why thank you.
-you're welcome

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action: talk to kate (from thaifood dinner with staff) about her small laptop.
- god i wish i had my laptop at the meeting. i had that aweful work computer that isn't worth two shytes. oh well. maybe when i get some tax refund action. it has to be small like my last one.

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note to self: why doesn't this conference have a mugbook? how easy would that be? you could even make money on that. online, searchable databases of conference members.
- my thinking was that instead of just a text based directory, we should have pictures taken at the conference of everyone as they come in, then put the pictures with the info and put it online. a mugbook is a reference to exactly this practice that is done at YRUU conferences. but that was before an online version was feasible. a good idea, but not worth following up.

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lambda sign. someone must have used some or all of the words: gordon, freeman, half-life, half life, or "best game of all time, why aren't you playing it now in your head at least?"
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funny person saying "resources" sounded more like "rezources"
- i don't know why i wrote that down. meh.

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rob sempers end speech is going on
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note to self: i love clapping
- it is true. i was always the last one clapping. i guess i have more enthusiasm than most people
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quote/note to self: core/sidelight - lots of inventions we thought (continued on next page)


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were core but have become side light. ---> virtual boymuch?!
-jajajaja i'm so funny. virutal boy was a failed invention, much like many web 2.0 thingies we'll never hear about. but his point was that some things seem essential or have features that seem so, but they turn out to be lame in the not-useful sense. and lame in the not-hardcore sense too.
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quote: "hear concerts on the phone"
- this was rob talking about how old inventions were feared to replace things. like how when the phone came out it was supposed to make concerts irrelevant. you could just listen to them via the phone. well obviously that didn't happen. i think he was addressing the people who think that second life will take over real life. they are dumb. see lightsaber reference above.