A presentation for the CATS 2010 Conference (http://cats.cdl.edu/online_2010/) How do we deal with the never ending onslaught of new technologies, resources, and media? How can we face this brave new world without a sense of dread? Is there an app for that? "Keeping up" is a myth, and the way of dealing with this is creating, sustaining, and being in your extended networks of friends, colleagues, and even people you don't know. Likewise, one cannot readily assess the value of new technology from the outside "looking in." This presentation will lead you through a range of examples of ways to practice more "being there-ness" so you can face the technology fire hose with a child-like sense of wonder. http://cogdogblog.com/stuff/beingthere

1. Being There
in that unevenly distributed future
Alan Levine
The New Media Consortium
cogdogblog@gmail.com
cogdogblog.com/stuff/beingthere

2. CATS and dogs!
cc licensed flickr photo by chiarabenelli73: http://flickr.com/photos/29163717@N03/3533885922/

3. Who is Chance?

4. Facing the Future... cc licensed flickr photo by
Eisenvater
http://flickr.com/photos/sabineschmidt/2507284/

5. Or, Facing the Future... flickr photo by Jon Pawley
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jon_pawley/8697122/

6. How Are You Managing the Flow of Info?
cc licensed flickr photos by dogfaceboy and gennie catastrophe

7. You Know More than Me
cc licensed flickr photos by paul goyette: http://flickr.com/photos/pgoyette/241716751/ and Matthew
Field: http://flickr.com/photos/matthewfield/2306001896/

8. What I Don’t Have
• magic tools
• how to “fix” education
• machine to slow time
• cures for financial crisis
cc licensed flickr photo by JoshWellington.com
http://flickr.com/photos/joshwellington/3929748847/

9. Let’s Start with a
Dumb Statement
Strawberry School House, Arizona

10. The Internet is Really Big flickr photo by Foxicat

11. Google Stopped
Counting
modified from cc licensed Flickr photo by pacek
http://flickr.com/photos/pakec/259447801/

12. We s topped
phing i n 2007
gra
Technorati Stopped
Counting Blogs

13. Measure by Daffodils

14. NowPublic.com

15. how many daffodils?

16. Did you ever think there was a
community for...?

17. Unknown Flowers

18. Tagged Unknown

19. Not Unknown

20. Amazing Serendipity

21. Expertise Can Have a
http://www.dullestblog.com
Shelf Life

22. We know what you had
for lunch

23. The dumbest thing
I ever heard of http://cogdoghouse.wikispaces.com/TwitterCycle

24. Outside Looking In flickr photo by diluvium

25. Twhistory http://twhistory.org

26. your.flowingdata http://your.flowingdata.com

27. Such Tweet Sorrow http://suchtweetsorrow.com

28. twistori http://twistori.com

29. How twitter creates a
social sixth sense
“Twitter and other constant-
contact media create social
proprioception. They give a
group of people a sense of
itself, making possible weird,
fascinating feats of
coordination.”
-- Clive Thomson, Wired June 2007
flickr photo by smallandround

30. Lesson from an Alpaca http://blabberize.com

31. cc licensed flickr photos shared by studiosush, xrrr, libraryman
Identify the Reflex

32. Information Overload? cc licensed flickr photo by dylanroscover:
http://flickr.com/photos/dylanroscover/3450505729/

33. Clay Shirky:
It's Not Information
Overload. It's Filter
Failure.
Web 2.0 Expo, 2008
http://web2expo.blip.tv/file/
1277460/

34. cc licensed flickr photos shared by El Bibliomata and strangejourney
Filter, filters, filters...

35. RSS: the only time saver

36. Let Google Alert You http://www.google.com/alerts

37. Make Your Own Google http://www.google.com/cse

38. Sift Data http://www.wolframalpha.com/

39. Follow Delicious Tags http://delicious.com/tag/waterrights

40. Follow 15,000 on twitter?
don’t read them all! http://bit.ly/follow15k

41. Filter Twitter into RSS http://www.readtwit.com/

42. Readtwit in my Reader

43. People Are Filters
flickr photo by dogfaceboy
cartoon by Hugh MacLeod (gapingvoid.com)

44. Stephen Downes http://downes.ca/

45. Alec Couros http://twitter.com/courosa

46. Judy O’Connell http://heyjude.wordpress.com/

47. Larry Ferlazzo http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/

48. Jane Hart http://janeknight.typepad.com/

49. Be There!
http://cogdogblog.com/stuff/beingthere