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Thanks, Michael.
Knowledge Worker 2.0
September 9, 2007 — kittenthttp://www.slideshare.net/trib/knowledge-worker-20/
From Stephen Collins via Library Bytes
Maybe I will claim “knowledge worker” as my title, rather than “staff.”
a book I need to buy…just because
September 9, 2007 — kittenthttp://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/columnist/story/0,,2159308,00.html
William Gibson’s new book Spook Country sounds like something I need because it fits so nicely with the idea of Library 2.0.
[later]
Bought it, and I am about a quarter of the way in. Gibson coined the word “antibuzz” which means definition by absence . It is something that exists, but doesn’t. I don’t know where he is going with this, but he makes the point that literature nowadays is about context and hypertext, and that people read with google, so that there is a cloud of tags around everything…it’s almost impossible to read anything flat any more.
“Right now, if you hadn’t been told it was here, there’d be no way for you to find it, unless you had its URL and its GPS coordinates, and if you had those, you know it’s here. You know something’s here, anyway. That’s changing, though, because there are an increasing number of sites to post this sort of work on. If you’re logged into one of thse, have an interface device”–he pointed to the helmet–”a laptop and wifi, you’re cruising.
She thought about it. “But each one of those sites, or servers, or…portals…?”
He nodded. “Each one shows you a different world. Alberto’s shows me River Phoenix dead on a sidewalk. Someone else’s shows me, I don’t know, only good things. Only kittens, say. The world we walk around it would be channels.
She cocked. her head at him. “Channels?”
“Yes. And given what broadcast television would up being, that doesn’t sound so good. But think about blogs, how each one is actually trying to describe reality.”
“They are?“
“In theory.”
“Okay.”
“But when you look at blogs, where you’re most likely to find the real infor is in the links. It’s contextual, and not only who the blog’s linked to, but who’s linked to the blog.” [p.64-65, Spook Country, Gibson, Wm]
