2.0 vs. 1.0 -- cil 2006 day 1

i am right now at computers in libraries 2006 conference in dc.

there is probably no need for me to post about the conference on my one-woman-show blog because everything i have to talk about has already been covered by professional bloggers, writing exclusively for infotoday, and more. but i'm still writing in compliment of the great work of the conference organizors.

search engine report
-- gotta check out the new ask.com site. the google style interface is acceptable. how about the content?
-- google is more than a search engine. it is an advertising company, an ms killer, and a lot yet to come.
-- yahoo! still leads as a people mediated search via tagging and personalization. watch out yahoo! research and yahoo! mindset.
-- all those google projects, scholars, books, prints, which generated the wave of copyright issues. but check out the projects. these won't be simple cases, gordon ron parker v. google, perfect 10 v. google,etc., it's another revolution of society, or human history, and google and whatever it represents is going to win.
-- china and search. chris sherman, the speaker, was just back from his trip to china. some of his takes on china and search is kinda interesting to me, for instance, chinese people feel that they need censorship and filtering when they browse on the web. really want to know how he came to that conclusion. not that i don't believe what he said; as a matter of fact, i sort of understand. people in china probably want censorship over flg related reports because we are annoyed by the so-called lunzi; but people in china may not object censorship on 1989 event because we are afraid to know the truth. anyway, the speaker seems to be very positive in the search market in china, like everybody else, except for the bush government.

wikis in action
binghamton university library applies wiki technology on their staff intranet. unfortunately, i'm still not convinced of wiki's big role in the library community, or in any qulity content environment. you see, again, some degree of cencorship is not a bad thing.

vendor visit--info confidential

keeping one click ahead
a lot of tools to track the development of search engine are presented. i'm not listing the sites mentioned because they will also be available at infotoday site fairly soon (i will link the link asap), and part of the presentation is already up at http://www.resourceshelf.com/currentcil06.html. i'm certainly glad to see some warning about quality content vs. chitchat, e.g. blogs, which will put me into the old-fashion group, which i don't care.

federated search engines: lessons learned
this session is ahead before me. three groups of speakers from northwestern university, university of pittsburgh, and university of central florida gave advice on detailed issues when implementing federated search engines and user behavior observation, e.g. making it as simple as google; monitoring usage stats, esp. turnaways; on-going marketing efforts; implementing formal evaluation process; using consortium model to save trouble in hardware and coding efforts, but giving up some degree of management features in return; setting up deadlines for the project; forming focus group to receive feed backs, etc. etc. etc.

(god, i'm sleepy...it's 11:55pm)

searching the new digital formats
the presentation was on blog search and podcast search. the first speaker was a bit too fast in going over her resource list. the podcase search presented a better structure, and i'm glad to receive a full list of resources to check out. at least, i feel oriented.

creative visibility: toolbars and game nights
uncg's library set up an example of integrating library's resources and services into the firefox toolbar and made library more visible throughout users' browsing. there is limitation of the program, of course, for instance, the function is limited to firefox browser only, but it is a neat and handy tool to add on as it does not hurt in any observable sense yet.
wake forest library introduced a game night to bring students into the library. this could open our eyes on a series of activities that libraries can host to publicize among young users.

vendor visit--info confidential

digi techforum: looking at dead (library 1.0) & emerging (library 2.0) technologies
omg! the comedy show of the year! i bet that tons of blogs will record this fantastic show, so i'm not repeating here. some notes for me to check out: google office, the writely; tracking your package in a 2.0 way; make library site a good destination, not necessarily a starting portal--em, i said that years ago, hehe; myspace.com(well, according to the speaker, i'm so out of it as i still do not have a mysapce account. but this is a community action. so what can we do in chinese online community? i've learned my lesson: i'm blogging on blogger while all my fellows blog on msn. i'm so out of loop. not again this time with myspace, i hope.); facebook (fewer hands up in the room in user counting); pandora (even fewer).

well...i'm blogging, e-mailing, msning, google talking, phone chatting, and eating leftovers when i am writing down this post...so if i'm not yet 2.0, i'm at least in between 1.0 and 2.0. and....good...bedtime!