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Internet Librarian and Halloween
Nov. 1st, 2007 10:22 pmTuesday I got to the gadgets talk to find it full and decided a hot tub would be the better choice. So I enjoyed a tub and got to be fairly early. I am definitely feeling the strain of going full out for so many days! And no, I didn't feel the earthquake down in Monterey. I instantly heard about it from my extended family though as everyone emailed, texted or called to say they were okay.
Wednesday was Halloween, of course, and I wore my fox ears and garb all day. The keynote was by Danny Sullivan on the Future of Search. He talked about the way search engines are evolving, esp. the way the major search engines are going into personal and vertical searching as well as the traditional horizontal search of the entire web. Then I finally got to visit the Exhibits! There wasn't really any companies I need to talk to this year though I did check in with some vendors I use. I may also get a trail of the new Elsevier product Scirus as the demo I got looked like it might be of interest.
Then I attended World of Warcraft versus Second Life which was interesting. I am afraid to get into WoW, I don't have enough time as it is! Cindy Hill also talked the Sun virtual world, MPK20, which they are developing so that they can have proprietery discussion on their own servers instead of being on the Linden servers. I think IBM is working on something similar too. But it was interesting to see screenshots. She says they ahve a video up on YouTube for which I need to search.
Then I had lunch with Lorelei, Kitty & Puglet in the hotel restaurant (which I had never been in all these years). We all had the salad & soup bar which was excellent. I found that Lori was going to take a bus to San Jose where she had a hotel for the night before an early flight. I offered to be her driver and it turned out her hotel was almost exactly a mile from our house so it wasn't out of the way at all.
I went to one more session to hear om Reamy talk on, "Folksonomies and Tagging: Libraries & the Hive Mind". He was rather negative about the potential of folksonomies with a bit of research to back him up. Unsurprisingly... users, beyond various kinds of geeks, really are not interested in creating elaborate user-generated tagging schemes.
Lori & I left before the last session and closing keynote. The person doing the keynote had spoke at SL vs Wow and did not impress me at all! I had been thinking of staying for it until then. But it was just as well that I headed home, I was totally exhausted by the time I had unpacked. Russell & I ate and waited (in vain) for kids on whom to bestow candy. We had two knocks on the door between 4:30-7:30. So we went over to 6th Street and walked the block looking at the cool decorations. Our favorites were the Pirates (done by our friends Miranda & Diane) and the alien autopsy guy. He was telling several children that the crashed spaceship in his yard had hit last night "and hadn't they felt the shaking when it crashed". Their eyes got big as they nodded. LOL - was it earthquake or aliens? Russell was fighting a cold and I was fighting fatigue so we turned in early.
Today I had tons of things to catch up on and worked all day despite being very tired. Tonight Russell & Erika are out at a lecture she is doing but Tina came by and gave me a massage. It was wonderful, except that my skin reacted to the oil (plain almond oil!) and I had to take a mid-massage shower. *sigh* I figure the insult of sleeping on hotel sheets probably had me right on the edge. And the neighbors were playing loud Mexican oompa music. I put on Yothu Yindi which did a good job of keeping us insulated - much better than the usual soothing massage music would have done anyway.
I went inworld only briefly to wish my friend Bildeaux happy Rez day at his party. Then I finished up my talk for tomorrow on Elizabethan Seasonal Customs which I give at the Rose & Crown Tavern on Ren Island at noon and again at 6pm (so both our European and US residents can have a chance to hear it). I just hope that the tradesperson who is supposed to come and give an estimate on the heater gets here at 11am as planned. I need to be inworld on time!
So now, I'm taking my exhausted body off to bed. Happy belated Samhain & good night!
Wednesday was Halloween, of course, and I wore my fox ears and garb all day. The keynote was by Danny Sullivan on the Future of Search. He talked about the way search engines are evolving, esp. the way the major search engines are going into personal and vertical searching as well as the traditional horizontal search of the entire web. Then I finally got to visit the Exhibits! There wasn't really any companies I need to talk to this year though I did check in with some vendors I use. I may also get a trail of the new Elsevier product Scirus as the demo I got looked like it might be of interest.
Then I attended World of Warcraft versus Second Life which was interesting. I am afraid to get into WoW, I don't have enough time as it is! Cindy Hill also talked the Sun virtual world, MPK20, which they are developing so that they can have proprietery discussion on their own servers instead of being on the Linden servers. I think IBM is working on something similar too. But it was interesting to see screenshots. She says they ahve a video up on YouTube for which I need to search.
Then I had lunch with Lorelei, Kitty & Puglet in the hotel restaurant (which I had never been in all these years). We all had the salad & soup bar which was excellent. I found that Lori was going to take a bus to San Jose where she had a hotel for the night before an early flight. I offered to be her driver and it turned out her hotel was almost exactly a mile from our house so it wasn't out of the way at all.
I went to one more session to hear om Reamy talk on, "Folksonomies and Tagging: Libraries & the Hive Mind". He was rather negative about the potential of folksonomies with a bit of research to back him up. Unsurprisingly... users, beyond various kinds of geeks, really are not interested in creating elaborate user-generated tagging schemes.
Lori & I left before the last session and closing keynote. The person doing the keynote had spoke at SL vs Wow and did not impress me at all! I had been thinking of staying for it until then. But it was just as well that I headed home, I was totally exhausted by the time I had unpacked. Russell & I ate and waited (in vain) for kids on whom to bestow candy. We had two knocks on the door between 4:30-7:30. So we went over to 6th Street and walked the block looking at the cool decorations. Our favorites were the Pirates (done by our friends Miranda & Diane) and the alien autopsy guy. He was telling several children that the crashed spaceship in his yard had hit last night "and hadn't they felt the shaking when it crashed". Their eyes got big as they nodded. LOL - was it earthquake or aliens? Russell was fighting a cold and I was fighting fatigue so we turned in early.
Today I had tons of things to catch up on and worked all day despite being very tired. Tonight Russell & Erika are out at a lecture she is doing but Tina came by and gave me a massage. It was wonderful, except that my skin reacted to the oil (plain almond oil!) and I had to take a mid-massage shower. *sigh* I figure the insult of sleeping on hotel sheets probably had me right on the edge. And the neighbors were playing loud Mexican oompa music. I put on Yothu Yindi which did a good job of keeping us insulated - much better than the usual soothing massage music would have done anyway.
I went inworld only briefly to wish my friend Bildeaux happy Rez day at his party. Then I finished up my talk for tomorrow on Elizabethan Seasonal Customs which I give at the Rose & Crown Tavern on Ren Island at noon and again at 6pm (so both our European and US residents can have a chance to hear it). I just hope that the tradesperson who is supposed to come and give an estimate on the heater gets here at 11am as planned. I need to be inworld on time!
So now, I'm taking my exhausted body off to bed. Happy belated Samhain & good night!
