THIS NEW NORMAL YOU SPEAK OF DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS?

SMALL CHOICES INNETWORK DESIGNMAKE BIG CHANGESIN NETWORK OUTCOMES.

great for reducingtransaction costs

attractive to big institutions and companies

old normal.

new normal?

for the hub, it’s afantasticnew normal

great forfairness and scale

when allowedto evolve…

great for unintended

consequences

ARE YOU LOGGEDINTO TWITTERRIGHT NOW?

1. YES2. NO

don‘t care how, I want it now…

wherever I am…

on every device.

THERE IS ALSO AN ECONOMICDIMENSION

14,000 articles @ $1350 each

$18,900,000

in 2011

THERE IS ALSO A MORALDIMENSION

THERE IS ALSO A SCIENTIFICDIMENSION

HAVE YOU EVEREMAILED A COPY OF A PDF TO A COLLEAGUE?

1. YES2. NO

new normal?

new normal?

“normal” peopleare becoming

sensorssensed

processorsparticipants

DATAPUBLICATIONIS NOT A MAGIC ANSWER.

“data mining = the data are mine”“you can’t possibly understand it”“i need to protect my postdocs”

“i might get sued”“someone else might find the key”

“i‘m not paid to make data for others”“it’s not secure”

publish now?

publish now?

publish now?

HAVE YOU EVERCURATED A DATASET BY YOURSELF?

1. YES2. NO

SCENARIO 1

RADICAL INCREMENTALISM

ACRONYM WARS!

ACRONYM WARS!

frpaarwa

sopa pipa

civil disobedience

routing aroundthe damage

new normal?

SCENARIO 2

A TALE OF TWO SH*TS

I AM GOING TO CURE MY CANCERIN MY GARAGE

I AM GOING TO CURE MY CANCERIN MY GARAGE

sh*t #1: bullsh*t

#2: holy sh*t!

NOTICE: EXTREMEABSENCE OF TRADITIONALINFORMATIONPLAYERS

SCENARIO 3

WEAK, SIMPLE, OPEN, TOGETHER.

great for unintended

consequences

“the unintended consequences of purposive

social action”

tiny workforce.

epistemology.

what things regulate?

it’s going to take time.

the appropriate metaphor is the internet.

no: trackingfollowupaccountabilitytransparency

QuickTime™ and aTIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

pastiche of international regimes

what is a regime that brings these together at scale?

2010

the new normal is rarely built by the old normal.

(didn’t bid on the RFP)

industries transformed:

books (amazon)newspapers (craigslist)

music (apple)“being social” (FB)

finding a job (linkedin)advertising (rhymes with Doogle)

etc etc etc etc etc

industries not transformed:

science-industrial complexeducation-industrial complex

government-industrial complexresearch-industrial complexmedical-industrial complex

NFAIS 2012 Annual Conference

Have you ever emailed a PDF of a paper to a colleague?

1.Yes

2. No

NFAIS 2012 Annual Conference

Have you ever curated a data set yourself?

1.Yes

2.No