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Columbia Libraries Symposium

Registration the symposium is now open at this link.! I'll be presenting the knowledge management program I've been working on at Smithsonian as part of a panel. 

9th Columbia University Libraries Symposium
“New Models of Academic Collaboration”
March 16, 2012
Columbia University, Uris Hall

The theme for this year's symposium, “New Models of Academic Collaboration” will focus on how research libraries are discovering the value of collaboration among and within institutions.  As these collaborative models evolve, they foster new approaches to scholarship among faculty, students, library professionals, and institutions.  The symposium will address questions such as: What are these new models and approaches?  How are they being applied?  How can they be replicated or adapted?

Please send questions to the planning committee at refsymposium@libraries.cul.columbia.edu

Invisible Idiot

I've decided to rename this blog Invisible Idiot. Here's why:

There is a story, probably fictional, about the lack of accuracy in text translation programs. A deputation that included an American Senator was proudly led to a demonstration of a translation program. The Senator suggested a phrase to be translated, "Out of sight, out of mind". The machine printed and these were then entered into the machine to be translated back to English. The visitors were all astonished when the machine printed the phrase "invisible idiot" on the paper. The computer had literally translated the separate expressions "out of sight" and "out of mind". The anecdote and the phrase "invisible idiot" have entered popular culture.

-Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden

NYC Social Media Week 2012

Time to be social. Here are the panels and events I'm planning on attending (based on what was still open) :

Monday, Feb 13

3.15-4.15 pm: New Technologies, New Democracy: Using Social Media to Change the Way We Do Government

4.30 - 5.30 om: Social Sharing and The Art of Doodling


Tuesday, Feb 14

9.00 - 11.00 am: Interview: John Katzman and Jeremy Johnson on The Future of Higher Education: Will Colleges Survive? followed by Panel: The Classroom of The Future: How Social Media Can Better Our Education System

2.00 - 3.30 pm: The Internet and Power: Sopa, Twitter Censorship and Who We Can Trust To Protect Us

3:00 - 5:00 pm: Social Media for Social Good (Dan Savage!)

5.30 - 8.30 pm: Pratt Brainwaves: Exploring the School of Information and Library Science


Wednesday, Feb 15

9.00 - 11.00 am: Keynote: Alex Bogusky followed by Social Innovators Collective's Innovative Models for Social Good Collaboration

9.00 - 11.00 am: Keynote: Chris Kaskie, President of Pitchfork Media followed by SoundCtrl's Creating Music for the Social Web

12.30 - 1.45 pm: Innovative ways to build community around books

1.30 - 2.30 pm: Crowd Sourcing Human and Monetary Capital for Social Impact, Hosted by LinkedIn

8.00pm - ?: Social Media Mania! A networking party hosted by DaniWeb


Thursday, Feb 16

9.00 - 11.30 am: Keynote: Douglas Rushkoff on When Change is Always On followed by Panel: Just Like The 60’s: How Social Media Has (Or Hasn’t) Changed Civic Movements, hosted by Sapient Nitro

6.00 - 8.00 pm: The Brooklyn Bureau Launch!

7.00 pm - ?:  Mediaoke


Yeah, there's some conflicts, so we'll see... Who's going?
Full schedule here: http://socialmediaweek.org/schedule/

Recommended Awesomeness: Vanshnookenraggen Blog

Vanshnookenraggen (văn – shnŏk’ – ĕn – răg’ ĕn) is Andrew Lynch.

Andrew Lynch is a CUNY Hunter College Alum (’09) with a BA in Geography. He is a photographer, free lance web designer, and hobby cartographer living and working in New York City. Andrew examines the built environment and cities, examining interesting topics topic like urban transportation, architecture, and unblt highways. 

I used one of his maps in my Penn Station Pathfinder project - http://www.vanshnookenraggen.com/_index/unbuilt-highways/

Blog Nod

The Cursing Cataloger blog has posted a nice piece on my article, "The New Information Poor."

Check it out: http://catthecursed.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/starve/

Thanks Cursing Cataloger!

Penn Station Pathfinder Redesign

In the midst of recent graduated underemployment, I decided to redo the website for my Penn Station Pathfinder project. This project was originally created for a Map Institute class I participated in while I was a graduate student at Pratt Institute's School of Information and Library Science. The class was taught at The New York Public Library's Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Divison by Matthew A. Knutzen, Geospatial Librarian and curator.