Notes from Gary Price’s SLA Talk Today
Special Libraries Association’s Click U Live w/ Gary Price
September 20, 2007
Gary’s slides (get them while they’re hot)
These are my very rough and scattered notes. They might not make any sense at all to you. I might clean them up eventually, but don’t count on it. = )
Gary was awesome, as always. Some technical problems delayed the start of the talk, but he and SLA were kind enough to go a little bit longer. As usual, Gary has way more information than what he can share in an hour.
The New York Times making their info available for free again: how much of it is free and how easy is it to get to it? If it takes someone an hour to find something on the site, is it worth it? Could databases be faster?
“We live in a time when everyone thinks their a searcher,” 2.8-3.2 words in a search box and what comes up first is the answer or best they can do
invisible web grows
if libraries spent 5% of the time they spent doing stuff on the Internet on promoting themselves, would their situation be much better?
We all have to be librarians independent of where we work. We all need to promote the profession.
Gary thinks the term ‘podcast’ will become obsolete in the next 2-3 years. ’selfcast,’ etc.,
preferred.
Mobile devices are going to take off. We’re going to have to adapt to that–from sending research to Blackberries to being able to design sites for iPhones.
Collection development of the open Web is necessary.
AGYM: Ask, Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft Live
Exalead
Wikipedia -> Citizendium: en.citizendium.org -> Larry Sanger project “falling out between the two co-founders”
Freedom in working from home means we can download what we want to.
meebo–”one company that has a chance of making it” access 4 major IM services in one window without downloading anything: AIM, Yahoo!, google talk, msn, + rooms meebo is not making money, but Gary expects to see ads in chat
expansion into other things via IM: BBC news, TCKR, weather, WSJ
*TCKR buddy stopped running a few weeks ago
ads are expanding
JaJah -> phone-based, nothing to download, inexpensive long distance & international calls
Yak4Ever.com -> register international numbers to call at low rates
Zoho.com -> variety of online services, some free -> Zoho Challenge -> screening candidates
backup everything
alluc.org -> movie/tv download site
flightaware.com
TerraFly -> mapping, geoviews, etc., w/longitude & latitude
WebSite-Watcher
Trackle
DomainTools
Amtrak -> track trains
TrafficLand -> watch traffic
HTTrack -> Web site copier
Internet Archive is now officially a library
skins on Ask.com -> polka dots
Thanks, Gary, for the Red Sox search and the shout out to those of us tuning in from New England.
