This document discusses the changing landscape of information and knowledge sharing in the digital age. New technologies like social media allow information to be shared more widely and conversations to take place on a larger scale. However, this also means attention and focus become scarce resources, so tools for filtering and organizing information to determine what is most important and worth paying attention to take on greater significance.

1. News from the New Coffeehouses What happens now our audiences are communities and our content is valued by its ability to drive a conversation? Enlightenment: meeting to discuss “L’Encyclopédie” . [Photograph]. Retrieved May 13, 2009, from Britannica Student Encyclopædia: http://student.britannica.com/elementary/art-86997 ]

2. Structure: Inspiration The new coffeehouses 1 Dashboards and Networks The new Coffeehouses 2 Devices… What does this mean? Close

3. A vision of Students today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o

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12. “ We have never before had a single platform which could scale from conversation to broadcast and all points between, but social media gives us that -- it's like your telephone could turn into a radio, depending on how you configured it” Clay Shirky http://thepenguinblog.typepad.com/the_penguin_blog/2008/01/special-guest-p.html

13. 2001 iPhone image goes here... Actually, your telephone can do a fair bit more than that nowadays...

14. And now, a short film about a boy, a girl and a piece of high technology... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-4zfs3dGY8

19. What does this mean for identity management? Scholarly Information University Browser based management? Firefox (Weave to manage id?) Web App Management? Mendeley? Academia.edu? Netvibes? iGoogle? Facebook? Device Management? iPhone? Kindle? Publishers Other Sources Of Scholarly Information There’s a choice… Student… Researcher… The other 80% ?

21. The Street finds its own uses for things - uses the manufacturers never imagined... William Gibson http://www.voidspace.org.uk/cyberpunk/gibson_rocketradio.shtml