C-SPAN page
Posted on:: November 16th, 2004
Here’s C-SPAN’s page on the Library of Congress series I talked at last night. The link to the stream of the session isn’t working for me:
rtsp://video.c-span.org/project/digital/digitalfuture111504.rm
But that could just be a problem with my verkochte setup. But, then, what isn’t a problem with my verkochte set up? And does anyone know how to spell verkochte?
(By the way, the decision to list me as a former advisor to the Dean campaign was C-SPAN’s. I’m proud of getting to work with that campaign, but listing me that way vastly inflates my role in the campaign.)
Not sure about verkochte but I’m assuming it means “all f@#$ed up”, like the Yiddish fehrkokta which actually is more like “all sh$#$@ed up” as in kaka. Not that, that helps with the spelling.
Morty, it was my attempt to spell the Yiddish. Thanks for the info.
Dave, I caught the show last night, and I must say, I truly enjoyed it. I took a special interest in the subject since I myself am a blogger, and I did my graduate project for RIT on weblogs and weblog communities. I especially liked the parts about forgiveness; I am a really bad speller.
Oh and the link is dead for me as well.
I was enthralled by the talk, but what is funny is that cspan, and as far as I can readily tell this blog does not refer to the sites, people mentioned. Now that I am on a computer I have no idea what other sites were mentioned. linking web to video is i think the last missing link.
Matt,
They’ve started to link TV and Web on PBS already (something like ‘continue to learn on pbs.org, with extras and links and stuff) … but I guess the link will be missing until the true merge of PC and TV …
Excellent presentation! (the link worked for me)
One suggestion: you might find it useful to look more into the development of digital library cataloging systems, pre-web. In the presentation, you talk about what’s changing in the leap from card catalog to the web. But, I think there is an intermediate step in there you might find illuminating.
Digital library catalogs, in my experience, have been the fundamental pre-web testing grounds of strict classification vs “miscellaneous” approaches. And, some of the interesting considerations aren’t even in the wide-open on the web (though, they are probably all there if you get into the librarian-as-information-architect literature).
I had the same problem with the link today. I believe it has to do with the browser and whether or not Realplayer embedded itself into your system during installation. Basically the browser doesn’t understand how to handle the request, so it quits. I am using firefox, I grabbed the link, opened Realplayer and went to Open a URL, then it played fine. Reinstalling realplayer may help if you are using IE.
I have a Blog as well. I always felt I was an isolationist, never caring for parties or large groups of people, but I love the idea that someone out there stops by my site and reads what I am thinking. I first heard you, David on C-span over the XM radio. Great discussion, it brought out a lot of things I hadn’t considered, including why I Blog.
Wal-Mart’s own Internet, and coming soon, your own Internet too!
This article also pops-up nicely in my thinking today about David Weinberger’s Digital Futures talk…Basically, the future of how people deal with huge amounts of information…is…already seen in the past of organizations like Wal-Mart.
thank you for the lecture: it was good to see Derrick as well.
more food for thought as i tumble figuring out how to get patients to moblog with their doctor.
Also found Rconversation yesterday: interesting idea to coordinate bloggers: but people still need to meet in person and develop trust before they jump on a bandwagon. Thats what i learned with the barlow flashmob.
As for verkochte, it’s correctly spelled German for “cooked too long”. It doesn’t really make any sense in that context though ;-)
Martin Probst is right — the German word for “cooked too long” is roughly the equivalent of the English “half-baked.”
However, the word that’s come into English is actually Yiddish “fehrkokta” or “ferkakta” (depending on transliteration), a cognate or sibling/cousin word of “verkochte” (both coming from Old High German).