TED Talks: Sergey Brin and Larry Page on Google
I love TED Talks!
So much is noteworthy in this video. Some things that stand out are: Google employees are allowed to spend 20% of their time at work on something important to them personally but not mainstreamed in the company; Larry Page’s statement, “We always hope that Google will be smart, but we’re surprised when only people think that it is” (or something like that); and that advertising allows them to operate worldwide, providing free, open information to everyone regardless of where they’re from and how much money they have.
All those points indicate how aware Google is of its power in the global economy and how consumers perceive the company.
As a side note, this article from NPR was really interesting. It paints Google in a much less flattering light:
“How Internet Infrastructure Works” by Jeff Tyson
This is a really interesting article that explains the underlying structure of the internet, including routers, IP addresses, the domain name system, and URLs. Most of what is said in the article wasn’t new to me, but the section on DNS servers was very informative. The description of the built-in redundancy of the system is interesting because it explains the WWW’s resiliency against hackers.
“Dismantling Integrated Library Systems” by Andrew K. Pace
This quote sums up the article really well: “Library vendors have two choices. They can continue to maintain large systems that use proprietary methods of interoperability and promise tight integration of services for their customers. Or, they can choose to dismantle their modules in such a way that librarians can reintegrate their systems through web services and standards, combining new with the old modules as well as new with each other” (36).
Whatever libraries choose, it will need to be cheap and easy use and maintain. That last requirement should be helped along by MLIS program’s increasing emphasis on technology literacy.
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