The Liminal Librarian

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So I was going to try the whole liveblogging thing at Internet Librarian this morning, but I couldn’t get a connection (nor could anyone else, so I don’t feel slighted). So, first impressions: Apparently attendance is down from last year, but last year was record-breaking and you wouldn’t know to walk around. Could the economy be hurting conferences already? Although I’m assuming people made their plans for this before the complete craziness hit.

Went to the Howard Rheingold keynote this morning, and was somewhat disappointed — most of the content was rehashed from his old Smart Mobs book, and the speech seemed both dated and recycled. Although he did talk at the end about an interesting new initiative called The Social Media Classroom and Collaboratory, and invited librarians to participate as educators. Also, this is available as both a free download and as a hosted service, so it might be worth playing with.