This was a lighter day for me, and that's probably ok because it seems that by Tuesday I start to significantly wear out and lose energy fast.
The first session I attended was an excellent panel on Digital Rights Management called "DRM: Digital Rights Management or Digital Restrictions Management?" There was a very well rounded set of presentations included in this panel. I was sorry to see how this one ended though, by what seems like a true communications error, the panel went over time, and was rudely stopped. The ending times for sessions were not included in the programs, and the sessions on the first two days of the conference were a full two hours, while the rest of the week were 1.5... so there was confusion as to how long they lasted. The panel did go over, but the disappointment happened when a meeting organizer rudely stormed into the room and told everybody they had to get out so they could set up for the next session. The rudeness continued, the organizer had an immense attitude problem, I'm sorry to see such a person representing ASIS&T in this capacity to the attendees, members, and guests.
I ducked into a poster session after this and talked to a few people doing some great research.
I talked to:
Frederic Stutzman, Experience and Privacy: Exploring the Disclosure Behaviors of Established Facebook Users
- I co-wrote a paper on a similar topic with a classmate last Winter so this topic was especially interesting to me.
Lisa Kleinman, Technology Use in Meetings: Information Handling & Polychronicity
- I basically walked up to Lisa and said, "oh my gosh, this is me." Very fascinating to me that somebody is doing research on this topic.
Joe Sanchez, The Educator's Coop: A Virtual World Model for Real World Collaboration
- I first saw this poster on Flickr before the conference. I enjoyed the opportunity I had to talk to Joe. I think he's doing a lot of great work in Second Life!
Then I just looked at:
Jacob Kramer-Duffield and Carolyn Hank: Babies in Bathtubs: Public Views of Private Behaviors Represented in the Flickr Domain
Gary Geisler, Paul Stenis, Jesse Martinez and Allison King: Game Scholar: Do We Need a Reference Database
Then I had a great lunch with Keith Instone, Information Architect Lead for IBM.com. I tried to pick his brain for ways to go with directive study and he gave me plenty of ideas! He also did not try to sell me band fruit... it turns out Keith is a Band Booster at the same high school I went to, so I remember band fruit sales very "fondly". Although, I'm happy to support the band, I just don't think I can eat that much citrus in order to do so!
Finally, I went to "Values and Information: An Interdisciplinary Investigation". It doesn't look like I took a lot of notes at this one though. I thought it sounded relevant to some things we may be discussing in my Information Policy class, I'm not sure if it really was though.
The rest of the evening was relatively low key. I spent some time talking to Jodi Schneider, somebody I became acquainted with on Twitter and met for the first time in person at the conference. I think she mentioned finding me through Karen Schneider, which I think is funny because I met Karen for the first time at IA Summit and I previously knew her from Twitter as well... and they have the same last name! Ok, maybe that's not that weird, but I really like meeting Twitter friends at conferences! I also made a bunch of new Twitter friends, it was fun following everybody at the conference. I will try to follow up with a blog post about how my social scouting went at ASIS&T, but I have a mess of session posts to write first.
I had every intention on going to SIG-CON later that evening, but I ended up skipping it yet again (I didn't go last year either). I think by Tuesday evening I just get really worn out. Maybe next year!
