Geoffrey is a consultant at Scholarly Information Strategies and former techy at Ingenta. He aims to convince us of some deep trends in Web 2.0 and how to utilise them.
Bilder describes the deployment of tech as having to pass through processes that includes a hype, failure and then re-emergence phase. The trouble with this, he says, is that we focus on one instance of a technology during the hype time. Pointcast, a screensaver news aggregator is the example he uses. "There are some instances of web 2.0 tech out there, some of which are hair brained, others are very good and examples of deep trends."
Describes Web 2.0 affect as "the edge is the new centre", content is being generated around the edges, ie blogs, whcih he describes as the poster child of web 2.0. Reminds the audience that in the first browser allowed you to edit as well as view sites.
Blogging lends itself well to publishing news and for aggregating information, "it is a good infromation architecture".
Wikis, allow users to edit the content, he says as he moves the discussion on. "Wikis should not be confused with Wikipedia, it is an interesting application of wiki technology. Multiple people working on the same document, a very useful technology."
He is demonstrating some wonderful examples of scientists and research groups using wiki technology, and blogs, to communicate.
Contrasts using social bookmarking sites with emailing links, for examplke CiteULike for academia. You can form research groups within these sites
RSS, allows you to see a synthesized version of all the latest content in one place. "These technologies allow you to subscribe to people's brains, that is a useful function. It is a tremondously powerful way for people to share, for the information industry it means you are providing a continuing commentary on topics. It is a new way of asserting yourself into the researcher's lives."
During the questions sessions, Bilder backs up points made by Larry Sanger about experts, talking of people conflating the term expert as academic and authorative as being being authoritarian. Bilder infers the same tone as Sanger, there are many different types of expert and authority.
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