after 2.0 comes 3.0 if we get 2.0 right

Heavy D was at this Farkas talk in Chicago -- wish I coulda been too -- but he sent the slides link:

http://meredithfarkas.wetpaint.com/page/Life+After+2.0

Very relevant stuff -- and the kinds of issues I sink down into and get real nasty with in the book. There are ways to do 2.0 sloppy and bad. Meredith is exactly right on to raise these questions.

You are now invited to do 2.0 brilliantly*.

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Weather: the 'weather' has been burned from the face of Texas. There is no more weather. There is only breezeless heat.

Listening: "Summertime Clothes", Animal Collective

Reading: Kallistos Ware and J.K. Rowling

*Because if we don't get this right, the reality of semantic search will eat our lunch finally and completely. Sorta. Well, more details in book of course...

blog reboot

In the next few weeks this blog will get a reboot as the book is actually published. I'll be treating it as a working 'open notebook' for items relevant to L2 and L3 concerns. Hope you'll join in!

proofs at hand

The proofs have been returned -- couple minor spacing & comma tweaks, and I think we're ready for paper and ink.  On reflection, seems I can turn a purple phrase now and again, but what the hell.  I'm getting older.

a blog to follow

Looks like András Molnár is thinking about these 3.0 issues too... he's blogging about RFID / arphids, microblogging, & geolocative matters from a library / information science angle.

Good stuff there!

wolfram alpha epistemological note

Alpha is live now.  I've written about it for InfoToday (link), and though my piece there spins a bit on the issue of epistemology, at the end of the day Alpha is a dern good reference and computational tool.  That's what it's meant for, after all.  And its quality will improve (see link to help it grow/improve).

The 'bigger' questions about knowingness and truthiness, etc. are (though important in the grand scheme!) unfairly localized on this engine.  It doesn't claim to get its users to Truth, you know.  I guess it's understandable that we web searchers drift to such questions when faced with such a fantastic machine.  

Reminds me of a line V. Rev. Dr. Hegwood once used about ninjas... "they must exist because they're not online..."

So, Alpha came a bit too late to make it into the book (I did manage to pop off a mention in a late revision, but that was still before Alpha was live), but it does help my main case.  Wolfram Alpha is one of the early popular semantic search tools.

They'll start coming out quicker now.

u.s.a amazon ready

http://www.amazon.com/Building-Library-3-0-Woody-Evans/dp/1843344971/

Here's the main Amazon site for ordering the book.

2.0 into 3.0

How do we transition from 2.0 into 3.0?

The main thrust of my book deals with how we do this from the service side.  To go a step deeper, I think it useful to reflect on projects where COIs are starting to edge out into schema use.

Look at STAR-TIDES for a start.