I’m delighted to report that Michael Tiemann will give the Fred Kilgour Lecture for the School of Information and Library Science on February 20th. Watch this space and the SILS web pages for more news.
Day: January 19, 2007
They’re already in Chapel Hill, but now it looks like Google will also be in the NC mountains near Lenoir (where they can really use the jobs). NC is paying tho with some serious incentives. AP reports here. (thanks Fred).
Rick Smith of WRAL has the most details I’ve seen here.
I may be part of a News and Observer story on the Google-NC site if Jonathan Cox takes anything from our conversation. I hope he uses the part where I say something like: “What Walmart, FedEx, Food Town and the like do with atoms, Google will be doing with electrons. That’s using spokes and hubs to localize service, avoid highway jams, anticipate needs and supply redundancy for their systems.”
Update: Here’s what Jonathan said I said in his article (News and Observer Business section) — and he was taking notes so he’s probably got it right
“The reason that Food Lion, Wal-Mart, Federal Express, all those places, work is they have an incredible delivery system based on hubs delivering atoms,” said Paul Jones, an associate professor at UNC-Chapel Hill and director of Ibiblio.org, a digital library. “This is the same kind of thing, just delivering electrons.”
Robert X. Cringely has his ideas about what Google is up to here (and in SC where Cringely lives).
Serena alerts us to Bora‘s appearance on NPR’s Market Place this morning talking about tomorrow’s Science Bloggers Conference.
LISA NAPOLI: Forget those pricey science journals. Debut your cure for cancer in a blog. From the Marketplace Innovations Desk at North Carolina Public Radio, Janet Babin reports.
JANET BABIN: More than a hundred journalists, scientists and teachers are coming to the blog conference at the University of North Carolina.
The goal is to get more people to think of blogs as a tool to communicate about science.
Bora Zivkovic helped organize the event. He says science blogs accomplish a lot.
BORA ZIVKOVIC: Debunking pseudo-science, fighting against anti-science, and science popularization. Hoping that especially kids who are online all the time will bump into science blogs and see cool stuff and get excited about science.
Zivkovic was one of the first researchers to publish data using a blog — a trend he predicts will become more popular.
Conference attendees will learn how to start a blog and how to use one to collaborate on scientific exploration.
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