Apperceptions

C-SPAN: DIGITAL FUTURE

Not sure what happened to the Live C-SPAN broadcast.  It seems that it was prempted by some vote and an announcement by some "lacky to a lacky" as Zatoichi would say.  In any event, the video is now available online.

Addendum: the lacky-sub-lacky was Karen Hughes.

C-SPAN: DIGITAL FUTURE - Digital Publishing

Edward L. Ayers, dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Virginia will be speaking live on C-SPAN today from the LOC at 3:30 PST.  Here is description from the C-SPAN site:

Ayers is the author (with Anne S. Rubin) of "The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War" on CD-ROM. Among the questions Ayers will address are the implications for the creation and distribution of knowledge in today's digital environment.

You can email in questions.

Lawrence Lessig on C-SPAN

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The Digital Future  
THURSDAY ON C-SPAN AT 6:30PM ET

Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society Lessig is the author of "Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace" and an expert on the issues of copyright and "copyleft." He is the inventor of the revolutionary concept and application Creative Commons, which invites the right to use material under specific conditions.

QUESTIONS TO MR. LESSIG
THURSDAY ON C-SPAN AT 6:30PM ET

Does anyone want to set up a back channel for this and send in email?

David Levy on C-SPAN

David Levy, a UW Information School professor and the author of  "Scrolling Forward" will be speaking live on C-SPAN today from the LOC at 3:30 PST.  Here is description from the C-SPAN site:

Monday, February 14 at 6:30pm ET - David M. Levy, professor at the Information School of the University of Washington Levy is the author of "Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age," and he will discuss the shift of the experience of reading from the fixed page to movable electrons and the effect that has had on language.

You can email in questions. Here are some links to bone up for the event.  Ramana Rao's Information Flow blog has an interesting review (see quote below).  He was a fellow researcher at Xerox PARC.  An article index entry can be found here and the Seattle Times has an in-depth review here.

Starting from a simple definition of documents as "talking things," Levy explains how they act as our social delegates, in particular, speaking for us in social settings. This broad perspective offers insights into how documents participate in the functioning of culture, and consequently, what might or might not happen across technology shifts.

Sounds interesting. More on this after the broadcast ...