Technology that changes your life

LibrarianInBlack links to the handy guide for conference bloggers by Ethan Zuckerman and Bruno Giussani. (I certainly could’ve used this at the IL2007!)

Ten things that will change your future lists technologies that are likely to be influential. I was aware of the Seti@home project, microblogging (Twitter, Jaiku etc.), and One laptop per child; the others not so much. The EveryBlock service souds very exciting, though:

“EveryBlock will use some of the same techniques to create “hyperlocal” news. The kinds of information Holovaty wants to provide include the results of house sales, scores from youngsters’ sports events, local crime figures and stories written by local people.”

I hope they’ll get it off the ground soon. Sounds like a terrific way for a library to push their news out to the community.