You should go read through the last few days of postings at both Library Techlog and Mobile Burn because each has several interesting posts tto which I can adequately link to and do justice.

At LT, Matt has this great observation among many others:

"I'm always a bit undecided about which term truly deserves the capital letter: Information? Knowledge? Truth? Why is it that there is a Science of Information, but Knowledge only needs Management? Weinberger seems to think that there are two things we mean when we talk about information. One sounds like ready-reference information, like the kind of trivia that seems to be fairly easy to find from Google. The other, which I think is perhaps intended to be Information with the capital is, 'a reality-based picture of the world.' This is a lot like what I would call Knowledge, information that fits into the context, that maps with the other pieces of a world view. Really I think Information Science is about the process, how information becomes Knowledge. We're alchemists who really can turn base materials into gold. That's the analysis we provide, the organization, the value-add, placing the information we provide in context.

The flip side of this is that we can, and do, dole out information, no capital required. We can do this because we are experts in process and context. That's why we have reference interviews: so we can understand the context for the request. We can move between the context of the asker to the contexts of resources of all varieties. We can pull information from resources print and electronic, because we can understand the context the information resides in as well as how it might fit into the asker's world view.

Weinberger doesn't want to deal with information, but he does like context (and contact.) While I don't mind information much, I have to agree that it's the context/contact that really interests me."

Over at MB, Michael highlights a DoCoMo phone with a 3D display, a new Samsung PalmOS smartphone, Qualcomm's new MSM6300 chipset that allows GSM/CDMA roaming, Nokia's N-Gage (which looks like a Gameboy Advance!), and more.

Damn - online for less than six hours and I'm already back in gadget lust.

"Blogging is a form in transition.

Personally, I think blogging as a form will merge with all the other forms of digital expression. With email and IM first. With voice/video conferencing, streaming videos, browsing, and PowerPointing later.

Watch it change:

• as more people blog from their foto-mobiles
• as devices start to blog ("My car's day")
• as audiobloggers create radio shows and videobloggers create televsion programming
• as Sims characters start to blog.

Moving forward, see a convergent software client emerge.

Source: evanwolf group, 2002....

We're on our way. Blogging tools are starting to interact with email and sounds. PIMs are managing contact information across multiple applications. Community and collaboration features are as critical to games as traditional gameplay.

I'm calling it: 2003-2005 will see many clients converge, weblogs among them. The challenges? Immense. The rewards? Many and rich. The fun? Deep and lasting." [a klog apart]

Lots of implications. Lots of opportunities, especially for people that specialize in organizing information. Like, say, I don't know... librarians.