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November 16, 2004

K-Blogs, Wirelessness and the Cult of Personality

Today's ASIST Annual Meeting entry should have appeared much earlier today. I attended the presentation "Blogs for Information Dissemination and Knowledge Management" happily prepared to do what Metametadata do in real time while experts discuss what it is metametadata do. I mean the metameta opportunities were OFF THE CHARTS!

But no reliable wireless connectivity in that particular conference room. ARE YOU FREAKIN' KIDDING ME! Everywhere else in the hotel but conference room Providence II?!!! The presenters couldn't even access the internet to show in real time their own blogging efforts. Without internet access, why even talk about internet technologies? It should be painfully obvious to everyone by now how fundamentally important the basic infrastructure of the internet is and how it should be a common trust supported and enjoyed by all. It shouldn't even be a question, it should just ... be ... there.

So now I have to talk about blogging for oneself vs. for others and for knowledge capture vs. infotainment without the benefit of a punditry soundtrack. I mean at least I'm attending "Diffusion of Knowledge in the Field of Digital Library Development: How is the Field Shaped by Visionaries, Engineers and Pragmatists?" In other words how to develop your own cult of personality, a topic of interest to all bloggers (including myself) who hope to reach a wider audience.

I want to be one of the few lucky ones who get read by everybody. I feel qualified to be an arbiter of "cool." And I'd love people to pay me to pontificate on the future of the information society. Basically, as all readers of this blog are again painfully aware, I'm totally ready for Guruhood. Now I just need to find some people to hang on my every word. I think I've already started to cultivate the appropriately eccentric personality traits. I've stockpiled my somethings to say and now I just need some people to listen to me.

Any takers? (If so, feel free to link to this website!)

WOW, did I use enough emphasis in this article, or what. Don't you just want to sign up for my new lecture series?

Posted by Keeper of the Blog at November 16, 2004 05:56 PM | TrackBack
Comments

You can sign me up rob, I'd love to be your disiple and hang on your every word....attempting to absorb your power and knowlege, .... inevitably of course, my ego will prevent me from attaining the true benefit of metadata. I eventually try to share in your glory by trying to get you to share the thrown with me, when that fails I will no doubt become fustrated & enraged, and rebel against you, electing to reign in the hell of my own ignorance rather than serve the metadata you created.
but if that doesn't bother you
teach me more!

Posted by: Bazzmattaz at November 17, 2004 02:10 AM

Basilia,

I would be honored to have you Judas me any time you wanted.

The Keeper

Posted by: metametadata at November 17, 2004 03:34 PM