OCLC Notes

This article is a follow up of the previous report made by the OCLC in 2003

• Format agnostic - current consumer content mentality of not caring what type of medium information comes from
• Nowadays there are articles that have small bits of it available on a website or a PDF, but to view the whole article in its entirety, one has to purchase it "premium content"

• Growth of e-books and web pages was not always vastly expanding, it was once slowing
• Now traditional print publishing is slowing because of e-books being adopted more widely
• Technology is not the only challenge, social challenges are prevalent and change how content is created, collected, used, shared, and preserved
• Smartphones are one of the technologies 
• "The medium is the message" with the "change of scale" view is something that doesn't make sense in my mind. I view that statement as that the choice of medium states a message of its own.

• With the new technologies, email and other applications, they come equipped with distribution options: delivery, filtering, personalization, and convenience. This makes the idea of new technologies as "disruptive"
• Emails have grown exponentially over the years, roughly 22 billion emails (minus spam) sent daily in this age
• Young people are the ones who use this new technology a lot, as a direct form of entertainment
• New technologies are cheaper and easier for other countries to maintain than computers

Microtransactions seem to be a new thing in these technologies for information sciences. This is something that I hope isn't fully incorporated into the information technologies/libraries. They are a nuisance for the gaming community and I would hate to see the situation of "25 cents for this sentence? Why not."

Social publishing seems like it could be a good idea, but one that could easily be abused. When institutions are not involved in the process the author has their thoughts at the forefront and may not edit them in any shape or form. This could lead to some embarrassing moments on the internet that could offend people.

       I know that blogs and wikis have existed before, but there are a lot of bloggers and people who publish their own works on the internet that have made fools of themselves or offended a large group of people. I guess this is a "few versus the many" argument.

The survey that was posted in the article regarding blogs and their readership: what kind of blogs were they? Were they blogs about sports, technology, movies, etc.?

Some of the terms used by the article were familiar, but some were definitely new and interesting. An example: moblog, mobile blog, I had no idea what that was before this article. Interesting contraction to say the least.

"Print won't disappear anytime soon," a good concept, especially since archive students are learning that there are more paper documents in existence than ever before in Dr. Cox's class/book.

A survey found that teens who saw teens reading print newspapers were considered "nerdy" and the newspaper wants to consider other options? Is being "nerdy" still a negative stereotype in this day and age that newspapers are attempting to rid themselves of a stigma found in teenagers? Interesting.

Scholar/university publishing is threatened by online publishing as well, something that I did not think that would be that big of a problem. I guess smaller universities would be threatened, but not to the point where they would shut down.

The idea of universities using up so much time, energy, and money on platforms for electronic documents both inspires and fills me with skepticism. Inspiration because they are adopting the new wave of technology for their future students and patrons, but skepticism because these new technologies are going to be a cost on the university when they need to update them again, and again as technology upgrades constantly.