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Archives for November 2007

November 27, 2007

OCLC and the Case of the Missing 2.0

OCLC recently released a report, Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World. The report focuses on use of the social Web and related concerns about information privacy. Over 6,000 users in six countries and 382 U.S. library directors were...

November 19, 2007

On Being Ahead of Your Time

I was hired by my library a dozen years ago to edit the library's Web site. This was back when the Web was just a couple of years old and Web sites were something new. Being an entrepreneur was expected...

November 12, 2007

The Publishing Platforms of Social Scholarship: Opportunites for Partnerships

My presentation at the Charleston Conference, "The Promise of Authority in Social Scholarship," has come and gone. I want to explore the last point I made during my talk. I didn't have time to elaborate on it much at the...

November 06, 2007

Presentation on the Metrics of Social Scholarship at the Charleston Conference

I was pleased to be invited to join Leigh Dodds, Chief Technology Officer of the scholarly publisher Ingenta, to speak at this year's Charleston Conference later in the week. Our presentation is titled "Authoritative? What's That? And Who Says?" Here...