education building

saw a poster for this up here today, PUNK - Words, music, politics, influence

http://www.sfu.ca/punkconference/

North America’s first international scholarly conference on punk will be held at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, on April 24-26, 2008. The conference will be held at Simon Fraser University’s Harbour Centre, located in downtown Vancouver, close to historic Gastown and the original site of Vancouver’s first punk club, the Smiling Buddha. The conference will help promote the establishment of a punk archive at SFU’s Bennett Library

Its amazing that I didn’t come across this sooner, but I was pleased to see the conference organizers (Paul Budra and Stephen Ogden) are using a blog as the main point of contact for web communication.

http://blogs.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/punk

The SFU library has been running a number of blogs for awhile using b2evolution.net , which seem to be working well. This one will definitely be worth keeping an eye on over the coming months as preparation heats up. I may even consider a contribution on the topic of my masters thesis or something, particularly if I can get a few of my old cohorts together for another kick at the speakers. fuckinhellya!

The bright folks up in the SFU library, have been busy working away behind the scenes on an interesting new web application for searching academic journals. They call it “e-Journals“.  The thing that caught my attention (Thanks Sandra W.) was their implementation of tagging as a means to organize the content.  Oh sure, they use a traditional classification scheme as well, but have added the ability to use tags for those ‘hard to classify journals’ .  I still dont know much about this yet but I am very eager to learn more!

I led a brown bag discussion on the topic of tagging today with some of my illustrious colleagues from the university, which is how I even came to discover this site. Hopefully we will see more sites around here that will be able to leverage this powerful Web 2.0 feature.  If you know of any, let me know or leave a note on the wiki.