A talk I gave at the IP Lezig session in Amsterdam, June 10, 2009

1. Social Networks as
Information Filters
Lee Bryant, Headshift, June 2009

2. Introduction:
the affordances of the social web

3. socialisation of information

4. aggregation, feeds and flows

5. trust in loosely joined networks

6. open info + low cost of collective action

7. are we building an
“architecture of participation,”
or just more media consumption ?

8. sharing as a by-product of action

9. making invisible data visible

10. rapid feedback is the key to evolution

11. rapid feedback is the key to evolution

12. network productivity, not just personal

13. what does this mean for
how we manage information ?

14. ‘real’ facts and de facto facts

15. ‘real’ facts and de facto facts

16. ‘real’ facts and de facto facts

17. expertise: individual & distributed models

18. expertise: individual & distributed models

19. verification: expert & community models

20. findability as an alternative to search

21. signals as an alternative to validation
(cc) http://www.flickr.com/photos/iconolith/458099966/

22. information overload
or filter failure?

23. The fallacy of codification & storage

24. weaving a fabric of information, links

25. the wrong sort of information overload

26. “Fast-moving”
The latest updates; also the most relevant
Now updates for my work (regardless of time)...
Intelligence from the wider world; what's
happening this week; news that more
directly affects me.
Intelligence from the wider world; what's
Short term happening this week; news that more
recent internalme....
directly affect information; long-term
exhibitions; scheduled work; staffing and
resourcing
Recent internal information; staffing and
Medium term resourcing, policies...
Facilities, branding, senior management,
Long term organisational structure, archive, phone
numbers, emergency procedures, technical
platforms...
phone numbers, emergency
procedures, services, platforms
Knowledge, market structures, culture,
Generational heuristics, orthodoxy, history
“Slow-moving”
info has variable velocity, but tools don’t

27. we need better filters and radar

28. ambient awareness, intuition, decisions

29. our social network ‘places’

30. social networks as information filter

31. democratising information:
negotiating language and meaning

32. knowledge is a social construct
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zachklein/10115928/

33. Polysemy declines
rapidly for new
concepts as dominant
terms emerge
Semiotic dynamics and robot learning
From a lecture on AI by Prof. Luc Steels, Sony CS Lab, Paris: http://www.headshift.com/archives/002386.cfm

34. language, tagging and signals

35. language, tagging and signals

36. future for information professionals ?

37. information networkers, not filing clerks

38. information & guides, notnot filing clerks
teachers networkers, gatekeepers

39. simple summary::
social networks will become
our main information filters;
this will allow us greater control
of our own self-representation

40. Thanks for listening!
I am lee@headshift.com and live at
http://www.headshift.com
You can find this talk at
http://www.slideshare.net/leebryant
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