JCDL 2009: Wrap Up
This was the first conference where i posted all my notes in a timely fashion. I still have notes from this conference season sitting around to be posted: the copyright conference will be posted, for certain. MarsEdit was a help: it was my first time using a tool that allowed offline writing (other than general text editor) and it certainly helped. The pervasive power and wireless also made a significant difference: the lack of wireless at the Vancouver JCDL 2007 still rankles. Daniel Tunkelang (@dtunkelang ) is collecting other live blog sources at this post on The Noisy Channel.
And, OH!, having the proceedings on a USB drive: delightful!
Twitter, too, was a delight, although this may have been because it was a small crowd and not overwhelming. I didn’t interact as much as i’d like because i was madly blogging. Today i read back through the tweets and see interesting threads: I wish there were ways to comment directly back. I used TweetDeck for the first time (finding, to my horror, some direct messages from some weeks ago). Some folks tried live twittering the conference: Gene Golovchinsky (@HCIR_GeneG), whose text i quoted once or twice when he quoted verbatim and i simply caught the concept, writes about his experience here. I note that he had a hard time tweeting Cathy Marshall’s talk,
No Bull, No Spin: a comparison of tags with other forms of user metadata. I had concluded, “Live blogging Cathy’s narratives is very hard because she is such a good speaker.”
I did think about my preference for asynchronous communications as i tried to interact with the Second Life presentation of the poster sessions. [Screen shots, SL URL address, announcement PDF] Since next year’s JCDL is Australia, maybe i’ll practice my SL social skills to be prepared to participate at a distance. The Second Life poster demo was awarded third place in the Best Poster/Demo Awards: all the awards are listed on the conference site and i’ve annotated my notes on the Best Paper session with the award winners.
As a final note, here’s the “social media venn diagram” Frank McCown used in his “What happens when Facebook is Gone?” talk. It’s available on a t-shirt.
