This afternoon I heard a lecture by Dan Cohen called “The Future of the Digital University,” and as I listened I started this list of words and phrases he said, in the order he said them, that seemed to me to be about WW as much as about the digital world, showing yet again the crazy nexus at which we are working:

openness

do-it-yourself

decentralization

collaboration

thought leadership

connectivity

hastacmoodlematterhorn

the everywhere library

distributed

60 million

aggregate

seamless

simplified interface

accessible, discoverable

unusual, indicative case studies

hamstrung by traditional ways

geolocate

prospecting

public domain

macro- and micro-

server

spider symbolism

priest

galaxy zoo

sky objects

rabid

boundaries are permeable

help from the crowd

physicality

search and retrieval

serendipity

networking