Hot Topics in Technology

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Hot Topics in Technology

• Michael SauersTechnology Innovation
  LibrarianNebraska Library Commission

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Todays Agenda
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blog

• Short for weblog (pronounced we blog, but
  occasionally spelled web log) is a web-based
  publication consisting primarily of periodic
  articles (normally in reverse chronological
  order). Although most early weblogs were manually
  updated, tools to automate the maintenance of
  such sites made them accessible to a much larger
  population, and the use of some sort of
  browser-based software is now a typical aspect of
  "blogging".
• Also Blogger, blogoshpere

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Notable Library blogs

• Paper Cutshttp//papercuts.tscpl.org/
• Ann Arbor District Libraryhttp//www.aadl.org
• Colorado State Publications Libraryhttp//cospl.b
  logspot.com/
• Travels with the State Librarianhttp//ksstatelib
  rarian.blogspot.com/

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blogroll

• A list of blogs that a particular person reads
• My blogroll (via Bloglines) http//www.bloglines.c
  om/public/travelinlibrarian/

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splog

• Spam Blog
• Any blog whose creator doesnt add any written
  value, the results of which are plentiful and
  irrelevant results in search engines.
• Typically all computer generated and all
  advertisements.
• The concept is to force search results and
  click-throughs leaving to revenue generation
• Sometimes also refers to comment spam.

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Feed (RSS/Atom)

• Really Simple Syndication(or Rich Site Summary,
  or RDF Site Summary)
• a family of XML file formats for web syndication
  used by (amongst other things) news websites and
  weblogs.
• Content is subscribed to, retrieved by, and
  accessed through the use of an aggregator.

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aggregator

• A software application, webpage or service that
  collects syndicated content from disparate
  sources and provides a consolidated view.
• Aggregators can be Web sites, stand-alone
  clients, or added to existing programs.

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podcast

• A method of publishing audio broadcasts via the
  Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed
  of new files (usually MP3s). It became popular in
  late 2004, largely due to automatic downloading
  audio onto portable players or personal
  computers.
• The Pod comes from the implication that content
  is transferred to an iPod. However, an iPod, or
  any other portable device is not required to
  access podcasts.

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open-source

• Open source describes practices in production
  and development that promote access to the end
  product's source materials typically, their
  source code.
• Well-known open-source projects include the Linux
  OS, the Apache Web server, and the Firefox
  browser.

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Wi-Fi

• Wireless Fidelity
• Wi-Fi was intended to be used for mobile devices
  and LANs, but is now often used for Internet
  access. It enables a person with a
  wireless-enabled computer or personal digital
  assistant (PDA) to connect to the Internet when
  in proximity of an access point. The geographical
  region covered by one or several access points is
  called a hotspot.

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SSID

• Service Set Identifier
• In Wi-Fi, a service set identifier (SSID) is a
  code attached to all packets on a wireless
  network to identify each packet as part of that
  network.

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WiMax

• Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access
• provides up to 50 km (31 miles) of linear service
  area range and allows users connectivity without
  a direct line of sight to a base station. The
  technology also provides shared data rates up to
  70 Mbit/s, which, according to WiMAX proponents,
  is enough bandwidth to simultaneously support
  more than 60 businesses with T1-type connectivity
  and well over a thousand homes at 1Mbit/s
  DSL-level connectivity.

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USB

• Universal Serial Bus
• Universal in the sense that it replaces
  parallel, serial, and SCSI ports
• Allows up to 127 devices to be hooked up to a
  single computer
• Devices are designed to be hot swapped

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portable apps

• A portable app is a computer program that you can
  carry around with you on a portable device and
  use on any Windows computer. When your USB flash
  drive, portable hard drive, iPod or other
  portable device is plugged in, you have access to
  your software and personal data just as you would
  on your own PC. And when you unplug, none of your
  personal data is left behind.
• www.portableapps.com

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IM

• Instant Messaging
• A form of real-time communication between two or
  more people based on typed text. The text is
  conveyed via computers connected over a network
  such as the Internet.
• IM boosts communication and allows easy
  collaboration. In contrast to e-mails or phone,
  the parties know whether the peer is available.
• People are not forced to reply immediately to
  incoming messages.

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Web 2.0

• While the old Web was about Web sites, clicks,
  and eyeballs, the new Web is about communities,
  participation and peering. As users and computer
  power multiply, and easy-to-use tools
  proliferate, the Internet is evolving into a
  global, living, networked computer that anyone
  can program. Even the simple act of participating
  in an online community makes a contribution to
  the new digital commons whether ones building
  a business on Amazon or producing a video clip
  for YouTube, creating a community around his or
  her flickr photo collection or editing the
  astronomy entry on Wikipedia. Wikinomics, Don
  Tapscott Anthony D. Williams

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The Social Web

• Also known as social software and social
  networking.
• Allows you to share with your colleagues,
  friends, family and strangers.
• Allows you to share your writings, thoughts,
  videos, music, pictures and more.

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MySpace

• Social networking Web site offering an
  interactive, user-submitted network of friends,
  personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music,
  and videos.

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flickr

• An online social photo sharing service
• One a user uploads a photo then can then
• give the them titles, descriptions and tags
• arrange them into sets
• contribute them to multi-user pools
• post theirs or others to a blog
• keep a list of favorite photos
• leave comments and notes
• subscribe to photo feeds

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del.icio.us

• An online social bookmarking service
• Benefits
• bookmarks accessible from any Internet-connected
  computer
• tagging
• bundling
• subscribe via RSS feeds

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wiki

• A web application that allows users to add
  content, but also allows anyone to edit the
  content. The term Wiki also refers to the
  collaborative software used to create such a
  website
• Editing does not require knowledge of (X)HTML

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Wikipedia

• A Web-based, multi-language, free-content
  encyclopedia written collaboratively by
  volunteers and sponsored by the non-profit
  Wikimedia Foundation. It has editions in about
  200 different languages and contains entries
  both on traditional encyclopedic topics and on
  almanac, gazetteer, and current events topics.
  Its purpose is to create and distribute a free
  international encyclopedia in as many languages
  as possible.
• Wikipedia contains approximately 1.6 million
  articles. More than 600,000 of these are in
  English.
• Wikipedias volunteers enforce a policy of
  "neutral point of view" whereby views presented
  by notable persons or literature are summarized
  without an attempt to determine an objective
  truth.

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Mashup

• A website or application that combines content
  from more than one source into an integrated
  experience.
• A musical genre which, in its purest form,
  consists of the combination (usually by digital
  means) of the music from one song with the a
  cappella from another. Typically, the music and
  vocals belong to completely different genres. At
  their best, bastard pop songs strive for musical
  epiphanies that add up to considerably more than
  the sum of their parts.

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Sources

• Wikipediahttp//en.wikipedia.org/
• NetLingo.comhttp//www.netlingo.com/

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Thanks!
Michael Sauers msauers_at_nlc.state.ne.us www.traveli
nlibrarian.info