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This venn diagram still makes me laugh. As we were reading Weinberger this week and the limits of first order organization it reminded me how the most basic information you are trying to find can be so hard to locate.

I think so true too!

Hah! Yes -- maybe it is because the people designing the site are marketing/pr types instead of LIS grads? ;)

I've been looking at a lot of articles discussing how social informatics is taught in higher education...this was one of the more interesting applications. Student crimefighters!

Wow! That's definitely an interesting way to engage students. I think it's excellent that they collaborated with another organization to really show the usefulness of social informatics. It could really be taught in conjunction with so many other issues and organizations.

what happens when organized religion and technology intersect? (or maybe not-so organized, i.e. the flying spaghetti monster). the article sites "dating service[s]" based on religion, as well as "virtual pilgrimage." the article is about a conference titled digital religion. came across this article and i think this topic is extremely interesting...might end up using it for my final project.

This is really interesting to me, too! I didn't even know such a concept was developing.

This is an article about Anonymous, a group that stemmed from the website 4chan, and how they went from posting silly cat videos to organizing scientology protests and taking down sites that refused to support WikiLeaks after last year's scandal.  It also looks at power and authority structures within the nameless group

Someone I know just asked me to sign up for a Pinterest account. Anyone ever hear of it before? According to the site, "Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. People use pinboards to plan their weddings, decorate their homes, and organize their favorite recipes. Best of all, you can browse pinboards created by other people. Browsing pinboards is a fun way to discover new things and get inspiration from people who share your interests." I think I'll give it a go.

Thanks for sharing -- this looks fantastic! It's got that great gawker atmosphere, just sharing good stuff. And kind of a way to collect things you like without actually having them. Cool.

I was exploring the journal "First Monday" which was listed in the Google Docs table when I came across this topic of "Obfuscation." Besides just liking the sound of the word, I was fascinated by all the various forms in which digital obfuscation can take place. I thought this article might also be useful for my group project which involves Ethics and Technology. (This is also my first time bookmarking, or using Diigo!)

Mary Beth, I added all those journals just FYI (so you don't think they were approved contributions by our expert prof; I hope they're all applicable!)

Interesting! I like the broadened idea of "obfuscation" -- not just by writing prose that is untrue, but the way we organize or provide access to those words can also be obfuscating. Just making something hard enough to find or get to. A crappy taxonomy can be a weapon of deceit!

Social informatics is not explicitly mentioned in this article. However, I think it gives us direct insight into crafting our own definition of the term and its application. Bates looks at the overall domain of information science, and how we, as members of that discipline, can break free of the idea (which may have changed a bit since its writing in 1999) that there's no content to LIS education and practice, just structure (i.e., the core of our profession is to organize other discipline's information). Most applicable to our discussion, at least in this point of the semester, seems this excerpt: "In comparison to other social and behavioral science fields, we are always looking for the red thread of information in the social texture of people's lives. When we study people we do so with the purpose of understanding information creation, seeking, and use. We do not just study people in general. The rest of the social sciences do various forms of that. Sometimes this can be a very fine distinction; other times it is very easy to see. In communications research, a cousin to our field, the emphasis is on the communication process and its effects on people; in information science we study that process in service of information transfer. For another example, there are social scientists today who are observing people doing collaborative work through new types of networked systems in the field of computer-supported co-operative work (CSCW) . The sociologist or social psychologist identifies and describes the network of relationships and the social hierarchy that develops under these circumstances. They may examine the impact of technology on those social relationships and on the work of the individuals involved. The information scientist, on the other hand, follows the information the way Woodward and Bernstein "followed the money" in their Watergate investigations. That's the red thread in the social tapestry. When we look at that social hierarchy, we ar

The Time Magazine Techland blog reports on theories behind why France banned mentions of Facebook and Twitter on French TV (unless the companies are being reported on specifically). Following French blogger Benoit Raphael (whose French-language blog is linked to in the article), they argue that "both social networks are so ubiquitious as to essentially count as public space."

This seems to parallel (perhaps even extend?) Sarkozy's recent support for building up intellectual property rights and digital rights management on the Internet. Interesting to see what sort of opposition might grow from your example (if any) in light of petitions and other fallout from many civic organizations in his calls for action at the e-G8 summit a couple weeks back: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/defending_innovation_and_net_neutrality_at_eg8_video.php?sms_ss=facebook&at_xt=4ddffe33e2a44342%2C0

Perhaps a manifestation of lessons from JSB? In his keynote speech from Unit 3 he ends noting that organizations should use crowdsourcing, not as a PR opportunity, but one that enables legitimate democratic engagement.

Case Study: Implementing Database Activity Monitoring for a Major International Telecommunications Company Business need: A leading international telecommunications organization needed a cost effective means to protect the privacy of its customer data and comply with regulatory requirements. Solution: The customer's systems are managed by a well-known global systems integrator. After inquiring with Gartner and Forrester Research, the systems integrator evaluated multiple database auditing vendors (including Oracle) and chose the InfoSphere Guardium solution. InfoSphere Guardium's appliance-based technology allows companies to secure their enterprise data and rapidly address compliance requirements without affecting performance or requiring changes to databases or applications. Benefits: InfoSphere Guardium provided a fine grained audit trail of all sensitive data access, along with automated reporting and compliance workflow, satisfying the needs of auditors. Real-time blocking and alerts ensured privacy policies were strictly enforced. .

Article basically speaks for itself! GO NYPL!

I'm really curious where $245 million in operating revenue comes from. I looked at the 1939 World's Fair by Potion, that was very cool. Also, this feels like the third article I've come across this week where crowdsourcing and having users organize and create the content led to positive outcomes. This was the other http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/world-war-ii-mystery-solved-in-a-few-hours/?hp