Greetings from Washington, DC....

Blogging this morning from the Computers in Libraries conference in Washington, DC. The whole conference is being blogged! One of the interesting messages in Clifford Lynch's keynote address yesterday was the fact that web information is in the process of changing from "presentation", like a newspaper, to a "conversation", like a blog. (That's a hint: You are supposed to talk back!)

Some other food for thought, students... there is some sort of technology law that the piece of information you desperately need to find has evaporated into cyberspace, but the things that you wish would disappear never go away and indeed, tend to proliferate! The example Lynch gave was the drunken photo of you your friends may have posted to the web--which could continue to haunt you in the future when you are interviewing for jobs, becoming a parent, running for office...

It's a brand new world of digital information out there, with a whole new set of protocols to be worked out....