Organizing
Solving Institutional and Social Dilemma
What is everyone so afraid of?
That nothing can be done, when all that is needed is a little motivation. Listening to this debate Vandana Shiva really lays it out well. This quote says it all for me from the last section “A Debate on Geoengineering: Vandana Shiva vs. Gwynne Dyer”
“And the final issue is, that these shortcuts that are attempted from places of power, and I would add places of ignorance, of the ecological web of life, are then creating the war solution because geo-engineering becomes war on a planetary scale with ignorance and blind spots, instead of taking the real path, which is helping communities adapt and become resilient.” Vandana Shiva
The Real Story of Stuff
http://www.storyofstuff.com/
I hope that we can really make ourselves understand where we are and what we need to do. I am hoping to help further spread widely the knowledge found everywhere, starting here. http://www.goodguide.com/
My heart Katherine’s opinion beautifully written…
Wow and I thought that one of the few areas of nutrition that always did make sense (as in being sound nutrition) was breast-feeding. And while she still states, “Breast is Still the Best” its hard to imagine if breast milk is increasingly becoming toxic to our own infants, then what is nutritious anymore? Without a fundamental change in our societal system all areas of nutrition are just a fallacy no matter which way society spins it. So at this point, I am only about half way through and I am asking myself, so how can real change occur. How does change within our gov take place if they are constantly kissing ass with the powerful and corrupt banks and corporations. Where does actual change need to occur? Where does it all begin again? At what level of power does someone need to have to say “We need to take a step back and re-evaluate what is happening all across the world? What measure is it going to take for people, not only to agree, but to really understand what that statement means?”
I feel a little better about the ending where she leaves the impression that its about people as a mass collection choosing to take action in one of those 5 areas to create change within, but I don’t know about the last statement where she says, “the gov is changing its efforts to look out for the people.” I still think that the governments are mostly still working in conjunction with the corporations and each others’ gov around the world.
Test Post
That will maybe make it’s way to Drupal?
Doing some work
Here: http://breakdancinglibrarian.com/base/
Getting some experience with Drupal and implementing simple ideas at first then moving on to more complicated development and design.
Look See
Coming up for air
Getting my stuff together. Updating my resume and web-presence. I’ve got at least 3 projects I should be working on simultaneously. Class presentation, Instructional Design Project for my class and developing ideas and applications for a Hackathon at Tech in the Middle (focused mainly on the mobile web development community). Here we go!
First Day of the Last Class
It’s been quite a journey through the Universe of Library and Information science. I had hopes of making this blog a running journal of my experience. That obviously didn’t happen. So I guess now I shall do some recapping, but really just move forward and chronicle my intellectual evolution after school.
I hope to share here what I learned and what I’m thinking about and working on.
June 12, 2010 was the beginning of the end and also the beginning to a new beginning. Instruction and Assistance Systems (LIS458LE) is the class. Updates to come…
First day of class
In about an hour and a half I’ll be in my first official online LEEP class.
I have to say I am a bit excited. Also, I’m the procrastinator of old as in not having all my readings done for tomorrows class. But hey, this summer has been pretty :sad faced: and I wanted to relax as much as possible.
Today’s class is Reference & Information Services…
A New Standard Definition of Reference
Is Network Neutrality (NN) possible?
I don’t know.
There is a whole host of issues on both sides. Rather than going through a number of them, a good place to learn about the debate is @ Moyers on America: The Net at Risk.
But, I have recently read and have been mulling over and article by Kurt Dobbins “Hunting Unicorns: Myths and Realities of the Net Neutrality Debate” where he raises an solid point that
“The Network Neutrality public and private debate has been filled with more emotion than rational discussion, and in its wake a number of myths have become accepted as reality. Unfortunately, public policy, consumer broadband services, and service provider business survival hang in the balance.”
I think it is important to consider what the public and private sector each mean when they talk about Net Neutrality, or in what form would they like the internet to manifest their interests. Dobbins talks about 4 different myths while giving and interesting perspective approach each one.
Myth 1: The Internet can be “neutral” towards all types of applications
Myth 2: Network management is unfair
Myth 3: Network management violates privacy
Myth 4: DPI is just a P2P “Throttling” Technology
Information dissemination or knowledge management?
Information dissemination or knowledge management?
An insightful article by John Sutherland has made me reconsider what digital libraries/archives responsibilities are insofar as allowing users to be able to inform themselves with total freedom. The problem seems to be that when new technologies are implemented there is a lack in the management of the information and sound policy decisions on how to control the technology preventing abuse of power.
John Sutherland raises this issue that with the Google Library Project (GLP), Google may be able to take upon themselves to actively control the indexing of the millions of works they have digitized. He states,
As the president of the American Society for Indexing, Fred Leise, explained, the GLP indexes operate by means of what is called a “control vocabulary” assigned to every single text. Obviously, a brute-force word search through 5m vols looking for, say, “England” will come up with haystacks not needles. But who controls that control vocabulary, and the gateway to information? Google. And they who control it, control knowledge. Ask yourself, what would the Chinese government do with this tool?
Is this the role that indexing plays in digital databases of information? It does lighten the load of returned relevant material of general searches, but does this resource limit our ability to aquire the infomration we desire?
According to the first rule in the Library Bill of Rights, “Books and other library resources should be provided for the interest, information, and enlightenment of all people of the community the library serves.” I think it is necessary to consider if we are giving up or trading some basic freedom of access to the information we have. Or, is it implied that with the huge increase in the amount of information available and the need for the tools to efficiently search and find needles in mountains of data, we also require stricter controls over how it is all managed?
Maybe Google is trying to make us stupid…
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