Internet librarian - day 1
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Once again the beautiful city of Monterey, California welcomes the popular Internet Librarian Conference. The welcoming remarks inform us that it will be here again for at least the next four years - this drew enthusiastic applause from the audience of about 1,400. Who can blame them, an annual pilgrimage to such a lovely place would be high on anyone’s nice things to do list. Although welcoming and well appointed, the Monterey Conference Center does have some limitations though. The opening keynote was in a room far wider than it was long The stage was in the centre with a projection screen on each side about half a room away. This meant that you either looked at one of the screens or the speaker but not both. The screens were far too low down so you couldn’t read the bottom of the slides. Nevertheless the keynote by Lee Rainie, Director Pew Internet & American Life Project was worth seeing. Unfortunately there was no wifi access in the main conference room so here are a few notes I made from Lee’s very entertaining and informative romp through what could otherwise have been a very dry set of statistics: Blogging experienceAbout community building & conversation The Web is a store place for peopleBroadband the center of the revolutionOver half have broadbandbroadband users are creators Wireless users pass 30%Wireless users are even more creators and integrate Internet with their lifeOrdinary users becoming creatorsOver half teenagers on FaceBook - mostly responsible use33% of college students keep blogs - many dont realize it 19% have avatarsMany are sharing information & comments - ratemyprofessor. …
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