I enjoyed this fun presentation immensely. Their picture of the globe and the google searches was very interesting: with the heavy European daytime traffic and the full breadth of traffic in the US compared with Africa being totally dark.
Google seems like a very human centered place to work, which they think is the secret to their web success.
I was not fully aware before of how much money was to be made in advertising: that is how google makes their money, and how individual web pages thrive as well.
I love the 20% idea, having bright people work on what they are interested in. And, obviously, some cool stuff has come out of that and has benefitted google.
I also liked seeing the globe with the data travelling. I never before pictured data, in some sense, physically moving from point to point.
Dismantling Integrated Library Systems, Andrew Pace
So, I glean here that ILS systems are not working well for libraries across the board, and libraries are continuing to pay for these services even if they are unhappy with them, which then leads to lack of ILS innovation? No longer is the answer to simply find a new service, now the services must be tweaked and made more effective. This is a slow process, and some librarians have realized success only when they went in and fixed it themselves. The author thinks that the present system needs to be dismantled and rebuilt to work interchangeably in libraries, rather than have small ineffective systems competing with each other. Of course, I could be completely off in my understanding of this article.
How Internet Infrastructure Works, Jeff Tyson
I agree that the great thing about the Internet is that nobody owns it.
Okay, so it is a network of networks, which we were able to view in the google video. And routers make sure information gets to where it needs to go, and does not go where it is not needed.
I appreciate the explanation particulary of the DNS system. It indeed is a great design.
Muddiest Point: What where ILS systems before the early 1990s?
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Remember going to the library many, many years ago with your library card that was made from heavy cardstock with a metal square on it? And the librarian stuck it in a small machine-ish thing that went "ka-chunk" when a card was put in it? And card catalogs that were actually on cards in file drawers?
Yep... That was before ILS.
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