Category: ethics

My Career Interest Summary

I recently wrote the following to describe my ambitions. I have added this to both my LinkedIn and my ClaimID:

I plan to develop online communities and services that promote the idea of digital library as place. Like physical libraries, digital libraries need to be community centers, collaborative study spaces, meeting spaces, etc. In addition, I plan to train library users to use new technologies and information resources.

I am currently seeking employment at either a library or a web services company. I am interested in working for an institution which understands the value of the internet as a tool for harnessing the power of collective intelligence.

To accomplish these goals, I have gained experience in traditional library services as well as chat and instant messaging reference services. Through my coursework, I have explored the theories and technologies necessary to develop thriving online communities.

Back to the blog and online identity

Okay, I am going to give it another go at keeping up with blogging.

I have been working on two personal projects (now three) lately:

1. Participating in social networking communities.

  • During JOMC 191 I began participating in 43Things.com and this remains one of my favorites because it has a practicial goal beyond networking.
    http://www.43things.com/person/mchabib
  • I began a LinkedIn profile when my old roomate from the University of Amsterdam sent me an invite. This also is one of my favorites because it is brutally practical in purpose.
    http://www.linkedin.com/in/habib
  • I joined MySpace, Friendster, and Facebook because my friends use them. Most of my friends appear to be on MySpace. However some of my classier friends are only on Friendster. I have just started exploring Facebook, but look forward to seeing more of Fred Stuzman’s research on it.
    http://myspace.com/habibmi
    http://www.friendster.com/habibmi
    http://unc.facebook.com/profile.php?id=2724087&l=29cd0f9cdf

2. I am working to build an online identity. While the social networking profiles are part of my strategy, ClaimID is the hub holding it all together. This is a great idea started locally by a few PhD students here at SILS. I would write my praises of it, but the folks at PostBubble have already said what needs to be said in this post. I have been working to add my ClaimID hcard to all of my various sites and have verified the sites that I can.
http://claimid.com/habib

3. Start to blog.

Doc Searls on the future of the web

I have only just begun reading this rather lengthy article by Doc Searls, so I am storing it here for later. He spoke on some of these issues when he spoke at UNC last fall. You can look over that presentation here. I read about the article at Dave Weinberger’s blog. Dave points to a number of other discussions on the article, but does not appear to be so hopful himself.

“Saving the Net: How to Keep the Carriers from Flushing the Net Down the Tubes”
By Doc Searls on Wed, 2005-11-16 02:00. Industry News
We’re hearing tales of two scenarios–one pessimistic, one optimistic–for the future of the Net. If the paranoids are right, the Net’s toast. If they’re not, it will be because we fought to save it, perhaps in a new way we haven’t talked about before. Davids, meet your Goliaths.