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A little Open Data never hurt anybody.

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I agree with the open data concept in the Wikipedia entry, especially in certain circumstances.  Imagine if the Tufte reading about John Snow finding the origin point of cholera happened today and that information was restricted to the public.  It’s basically like the Wikipedia entry states; data that contains information on “genomes, organisms, medical science, environmental” should be open to the public.  All of the previous things listed do not belong to anyone; facts about these things should always be open to the public domain.  Another reason which the Wikipedia entry brought up but I actually first read in Badke was the idea that if the data was funded with public money than it should at some point be made available to the public for free.  If the research was funded by government grants or through taxes then it was actually funded by the people and so why should we have to pay for it twice.  Some people might say’ if you discover something first you should be allowed to make a profit to fund future work or to be compensated for your time’, I do not disagree all I am saying is that at some point you have to turn that information over to the public.

Tufte’s reading on John Snow painted Snow as a man whose main focus was stopping a deadly cholera outbreak that was claiming nearly 100+ lives a day.  It wasn’t until after the incident he received the recognition of being called one of the fathers of epidemiology.  All in all I do not believe the advancement of humanity should be for profit, sometimes doing the right thing is truly its own reward.

Chapter 1 (Badke) & New York Times Article

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Dated June 1982, this article in the New York Times by Robert Reinhold goes into details about technology and how it could transform society. Today in 2015; in my opinion we as a society have already reached a conclusion with respect to technology and how societies transformations by modern technology are in full force and we are all being affected daily.
But does modern technology really change the true meaning of family time and life; as suggested in the article; the author mentioned the “profound effect commercial television and automobile had on society in earlier centuries,” In my opinion, I believe anyone living in this century will not want to be stagnant and live where there are not changes and exciting innovations made available daily to them.
I can say from experience, that electronic information made life easier for me in general. In my opinion, the effects on society will be sometimes overwhelming but if you look at he bigger picture recent, modern and emerging technologies can be very beneficial to society as a whole.
William Badke, in Research Strategies wrote about several issues and notions to take into consideration with dissecting “WWW” and its gatekeepers. Electronic information having gatekeepers can hurting the quest for information especially for scholars. I use WWW several times daily and Mr. Badke’s detailed information about accessing and sharing information using technology uncovered information that I was not aware of. I truly believe as stated before that all information related in both articles can be either good or bad and one must educate themself in order to make right choices when it comes to using modern and emerging technologies.

Power of information

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In both pieces authors discourse about advance of information. Badke gave us short perspective about how the idea of information evolution with human society and affect it at the same time. Rainolds, in his turn, bring to the table scientific research about how electronic information technology will have transformed American society in a next twenty years. In spite of authors moving with different motivations: Badke needed the basis for his modern information research method, and Rainolds just gave the readers interesting facts, they both make us clearly understand, that information is power, and as any power it has advantages and disadvantages. If Rainolds, actually, not doing much, in his article he just present wise look to the future, Badke describes situation where tail almost willing the dog. In his passages about credibility and quality of both- information and people who use it and care about it , Badke is drawing very sad picture: evil Google and web 2.0 people control the minds of majority and blocking from them real information. Moreover, I mention that Bodke is switching the idea of learning, which is , almost all the time , life  long process, with idea of research, which is, some times, can be done for one working day. Beside of this, I really enjoy my reading, especially NYTimes article and would like to say that in my opinion information research problems mostly depends not from credibility of sources or specific methods of doing research, but from personal experience and intellectual level of researcher. After all, Dorothy realized pretty quick how to survive, even before she understand that it was not a Kansas.

Information Technology strategy and Society

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Societies transformed from traditional “oral” nature where knowledge passed down from generation to another, up to now where we experience the tremendous complicated technology. Such transformations represent the normal cycle of human development throughout history.

The best advantage that resulted of writing invention through printing press technology was the emergency of practical method of keeping documents, rather than depending on memorizing “data” which is often exposed for loss.

I believe that writing invention was a turning point in human kind history; consequently, the key for all subsequent triumphs which finally has crowned by the creation of what so called “WWW”.

We should not be worried about the side effects of information technology which is- willy nilly- we would handle

Robert Reinhold in his article,”Study Says Technology Could Transform Society”, in New York Times has depicted and  anatomized most of potential side effects of such transformation, yet by balancing benefits and risks society might benefit a lot.

We should not be anxious and worried toward unanticipated influencers of technology, since we can activate anti actions using technology itself!

Technology is Making us Lazy

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In both William Badke’s, Research Strategies: Finding Your Way Through the Information Fog, and  Robert Reinhold’s New York Times article entitled,”Study Says Technology Could Transform Society”, that although there is no denying the inevitable truth that the technological advances that have been made thus far have made society as a whole more prosperous , however, technology in its entirety has made us lazy.  According to Badke, he states that even though gatekeepers of modern society are still of importance, that ” on  the WWW, gatekeepers are no longer required.”  This is a huge uprising issue in particular to students, because without experts proof reading/editing these articles, all articles are now being questioned for liability. Often times students use the standard search engines such as Google or Bing  as opposed to a scholarly data base within their school’s library.  The downfalls to these search engines are their lack of accountability. The quality of one’s writing is diminished and the potential of that student is undermined. Like wise, in Reinhold’s article, he speaks of technology basically taking over the world; which was a spot on  prediction of what modern’s society would look like. In all, old customs from buying clothes to reading a book to acquire knowledge, has been tampered with due to the advancements in technology. Now, everything we want is at the edge of our fingertips.

Badke, reading response.

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What caught my attention while reading “Research Strategies” by William Badke, was when “the people had been forced from their city homes into the jungle.” Badke says, their knowledge of what was edible and what was deadly once carried by their ancestors had to gradually be rebuilt into their knowledge base. The first question that came to mind was, what other knowledge carried by our ancestors has been lost? Also, in relation to what’s edible and what’s deadly, I thought about what Badke said which is, we have to be the gatekeepers and discern the difference of getting our information from people who really know what their writing about verses the average person that selects the first five results from a Google search doing very little evaluation of their relative quality.

 

It’s February already?! Assigned reading & blogging for Monday, February 2

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Hi everyone,

For Monday, February 2, there are 2 assigned readings, one from the required textbook and one online:

Chapter 1 of Research Strategies by Badke (required textbook; download or order here)
Reinhold, “Study says Technology could Transform Society” (The New York Times, 14 June 1982.)

Your blogging assignment is to write one 100-word minimum blog post in response to these readings. If you can’t buy or download a copy of the required textbook in time, remember you can get it on reserve in the City Tech library with this call number: Z710 .B23 2014.

On Monday we’ll talk about traditional print media, including a brief history and an overview of the lifecycle of print media.

Please get in touch via email or OpenLab message if you have any questions about signing up for the OpenLab or joining the course. I’ll send reminders to anyone who isn’t signed up within a day or 2.

Glad to have met you all and looking forward to an interesting semester!

~Prof. Leonard

Welcome to LIB 1201!

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Greetings! If you’ve found this site, you’re probably registered for LIB 1201/D930 during the Spring 2015 semester at New York City College of Technology. Join the course site, read the syllabus, review blogging guidelines, and get the textbook, Research Strategies, 5th edition, by William Badke.

We meet Mondays and Wednesdays from 10-11:15 a.m. in A543, which is a classroom in the library. Enter the library on the 4th floor of the Atrium, head to the upper floor, and turn left. Look for signs directing you to the classroom.

~Prof. Leonard