9:21:23 AM: Charles Lowry, Executive Director of the Association of Research Libraries is the speaker.

9:22:05 AM: I didn’t get the wifi working to start, so I’ll retweet a bit…

9:22:41 AM: RT @TAC_NISO: Libraries facing “most difficult fiscal scenarios in our careers” Broad consensus on need for new ways to work together #ssp09

9:23:00 AM: RT @meyercarol: 18-month outlook for ARL and Publishers will test us–collaborative opportunity to “redefine what we are and do” . #ssp09

9:23:46 AM: RT @meyercarol: Budget crisis: neg impact on taxes, tuition, endowment, and funding. Exception is federal research $, but overheads down.

9:23:55 AM: RT @TAC_NISO: Lowry: only expanding source of funding is federal funds for research, with decreasing overhead allocation

9:24:11 AM: RT @meyercarol: Almost 55% of ARL members have had budget reductions, and 30% may have “take-back” reductions later. Lowry

9:24:32 AM: RT @TAC_NISO: Lowry: 55/99 ARL libraries had budget cuts in 2008-09. 22 have been asked to hold funds for additional reductions.

9:24:46 AM: RT @meyercarol: 48% ARL libraries reported endowment declines, may be underreported. Lowry

9:24:58 AM: RT @TAC_NISO: Lowry: ARL members making cuts primarily in staff (freezes or eliminating vacant positions.

9:25:11 AM: RT @meyercarol: It looks like libraries are trying to protect acquisitions budget from cuts. Lowry

9:25:25 AM: RT @meyercarol: Of 55 libraries making reductions, median & mean pay increases 3%. Lowry

9:25:42 AM: RT @meyercarol: 2209-2010 projections: 11% expect budget increases, 8% can’t predict, 69% predict reductions. Lowry

9:26:11 AM: AW:Okay, up to speed now.

9:27:25 AM: Lowry says cooperative efforts are needed to “avoid doing anything that is redundant” #ssp09

9:28:11 AM: RT @TAC_NISO: The data Lowry is discussing will have huge impact on the SSP Community in next 2 years will likely be very lean years ahead

9:28:31 AM: ARL scheme for “Transformational Times” #ssp09

9:30:25 AM: 7 trends in scholarly communications: Budget reductions, new pub models, lib. relationships to faculty. control problems #ssp09

9:31:25 AM: … re-engineering of library services, communication/research relationship changes, cyber-infrastructure. #ssp09

9:33:20 AM: Public policy trends: concerns about economy and national security. Changes in government policies, more tech from govt. #ssp09

9:33:54 AM: RT @ScholarlyChickn: Most scholarly comm takes place before formal publication. Why do libraries feel they need to squeeze into this domain?

9:34:44 AM: Increased efforts to allow new forms of scholarship to emerge. #ssp09

9:35:13 AM: Focus on accountability and assessment in government. #ssp09

9:36:40 AM: Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) has not re-emerged. Counters Fair Copyright Research Works Act. #ssp09

9:38:13 AM: Fair Copyright in Research Act would make it so federally-funded research could be kept private upon publication – no open access. #ssp09

9:39:34 AM: FISA PATRIOT Act are also concerns. Sec108 of Copyright act helps libraries, but Lowry seems worried about it (partly due to DMCA) #ssp09

9:41:09 AM: Lowry, High-quality clip extraction from DVDs is allowed for film schools/libraries, but what about other academic use? #ssp09

9:43:06 AM: Research libraries should be in “virtual worlds” [online], engage non-typical students. #ssp09

9:46:42 AM: In the digital age, servers host digital scholarship on campus. “A renaissance of campus publishing.” #ssp09

9:47:31 AM: RT @drs1969: @AdamWeiss What is a typical student? answers on a tweet please! #ssp09 [Good question. I don’t think there is such a thing]

9:49:03 AM: Report on online resources based on surveys: innovation in all areas, online is shaped by tradition, very long tail. #ssp09

9:49:56 AM: Lowry: “Establishing credibility is not easy, but is of critical importance.” #ssp09

9:51:58 AM: Valuable role for the library: support digital communication. Create new projects. Also, continue traditional library work. #ssp09

9:52:38 AM: End of formal talk. Now, Q&A #ssp09

9:53:49 AM: PRT @jschneider: Lowry 8 e-material types: e-only journals, reviews, preprints, encyc/dict, data, blogs, discussion forums, prof/schol hubs

9:55:20 AM: PRT @cpikas: This is getting interesting-q from audience “how dare you come into a group of publishers and demean the roles of publishers”

9:55:51 AM: Audience just applauded the semi-attack question. #ssp09

9:58:23 AM: Lowry: Libraries aren’t going to cancel subscriptions because data is online. Publications have other valuable content besides data #ssp09

10:00:31 AM: Lowry: “I’ve been engaged in advancing scholarly publication thought my career” remarks aren’t “demeaning” #ssp09

10:01:52 AM: Audience comment from AIP: “Let’s all be friends” (well, at least that’s the gist of it). #ssp09

10:03:25 AM: Q about reducing redundancy: Organize a library “buying club” for subscription negotiation? #ssp09

10:05:40 AM: ARL is small (in terms of staff), so probably not. However, member institutions already have access to buying clubs. #ssp09

10:07:03 AM: October Ivins stands up to remind us that SSP is the Society FOR Scholarly PublishING, not Society OF Scholarly PublishERS. #ssp09

10:10:20 AM: Q about survey data. Presentation will be available in July (Lowry wants to keep it fresh for other talks). #ssp09

4:04:51 PM: Kent Anderson, New England Journal of Medicine is up first: “New Publishing Models for the Now World” #ssp09

4:05:17 PM: Hashtag for this session is #brave, in addition to #ssp09

4:06:05 PM: Publishing started when information was scarce, when it had to be delivered. Now, it is abundant. #brave #ssp09

4:06:26 PM: “It isn’t what you know, it is what you can find.” #brave #ssp09

4:08:16 PM: “Ownership isn’t power, it may actually be an impediment.” “Curation is commonplace.” Facebook, TinyURL as examples. #brave #ssp09

4:09:14 PM: Most people publish, and that is only growing. Referred to Bly’s earlier talk of scientist bloggers. #brave #ssp09

4:10:33 PM: “Mass media was an anomaly.” Publishing industry started to fill a need that no longer exists. #brave #ssp09

4:11:57 PM: Scarcity bred intermediation, now abundance breeds “Apomediation” — mediate around the content. “Content is no longer King.” #brave #ssp09

4:12:54 PM: Kent says contend is becoming a service. [AW: But Kent, aren’t we all just reporting and building off your content?] #brave #ssp09

4:14:44 PM: “Content can provide a service” [AW: I agree with this]

4:15:46 PM: Factors Shaping the futire slide: Digital, Immediate, Mobile, Connected, Personal, Engineered. #brave #ssp09

4:16:32 PM: Blogs growing almost 4x faster than mainstream media. 2 of top 10 news sites are blogs. #brave #ssp09

4:17:41 PM: Evolution of Publishing: Producers and Consumers have the same capabilities. #brave #ssp09

4:18:58 PM: Blogs: can be customized, where Mainstream Media is limited to a “one-size-fits-all” #brave #ssp09

4:20:12 PM: Going over what a blog is. “Why are blogs a big deal?” #brave #ssp09

4:21:55 PM: Showing AllthingD, People, CNNPolitics, NEJM H1N1 as examples of blogging software in action. #brave #ssp09

4:23:23 PM: Anderson showed NEJM as ahead of CDC on flu Google results. The keywords were pretty specific, though. #brave #ssp09

4:24:24 PM: Kent’s book publisher went to give him a site. Looked at his current web presence, said “We can’t match that.” #brave #ssp09

4:25:14 PM: With Twitter, interactions are going on “Within View.” That’s a difference from past conversations. #brave #ssp09

4:25:40 PM: RT @annmichael: Kent Anderson #ssp09 #brave twitter is going to start making twitter domains that are validated with sub domains

4:27:16 PM: Showing how NEJM audience is tagging and selecting the results automatically. #brave #ssp09

4:28:34 PM: NEJM Prints (yes, PRINTS) top articles from their site in quarterly topic-based newsletters. #brave #ssp09

4:29:02 PM: RT @meyercarol: Check out Kent’s mystery: http://johnnydenovo.com/ #brave #ssp09 Anderson

4:31:18 PM: Publishers are going to see an increase in fixed costs, as they are now in a different world. #brave #ssp09

4:32:36 PM: Now, Geoff Bilder, from CrossRef is up to talk business models. #brave #ssp09

4:33:07 PM: Geoff: “Shame on you” for bringing a tech-head in to talk business. #brave #ssp09

4:33:58 PM: We are doing a terrible job of getting the content to the right audience [AW: Agreed]. #brave #ssp09

4:34:19 PM: RT @annmichael: Kent Anderson #ssp09 #brave fixed costs will go up (services based – small margins)

4:35:30 PM: An iTunes for the Publishing Industry? #brave #ssp09

4:37:43 PM: Showing Market Cap (as gorillas) Growth of Amazon, shrinking of Yahoo. Google, Apple, Microsoft are publishers, and HUGE #brave #ssp09

4:39:05 PM: Music industry was turned upside down by Apple. “Could iTunes become iPub?” #brave #ssp09

4:40:18 PM: Observations about the publishing industry. They conspire to annoy researchers #brave #ssp09

4:40:43 PM: Cites Steve Krug “Don’t make me think.” #brave #ssp09

4:41:32 PM: Publisher websites have been hijacked by weird marketing efforts. #brave #ssp09

4:42:48 PM: Too many choices involved in getting to content. #brave #ssp09

4:43:41 PM: The only places you find content organized by publisher is the Frankfurt Book Fair, and online. It’s dumb. #brave #ssp09

4:45:09 PM: Bilder says: Publishers make bad sites partly because they take advice from librarians. #brave #ssp09

4:46:30 PM: Publishers: “We don’t know who our audience is.” #brave #ssp09

4:48:04 PM: 90% of traffic to some publishers’ websites is not from “their world.” Who are these people? #brave #ssp09

4:48:54 PM: Publishers: “Pay-Per-View pricing is mental” #brave #ssp09

4:50:56 PM: Many publishers could make as much money at ~$1-5 per article a la carte as they do from subscriptions.

4:52:07 PM: Many people coming to publishers sites probably studied science and went into other fields. They are interested, and want to learn. #ssp09

4:53:16 PM: To make “iPub” (iTunes for Publishing): Critical mass, simple interface, disaggregation, and portability. #brave #ssp09

4:56:11 PM: Bilder says the iPhone app store is a great model. Also, books are extremely popular on the iPhone. #brave #ssp09

5:00:07 PM: In-app purchases are a new possibility on the iPhone, and could be used for publishing. Take the device capabiility and USE IT #brave #ssp09

5:01:39 PM: Bilder: “Brave new world of buying content on a website that doesn’t suck.” #brave #ssp09

5:02:27 PM: Gives a “shout out” to Mendeley a PDF-organization app that can talk to others online. #brave #ssp09

5:03:15 PM: Mendeley: http://www.mendeley.com/ #brave #ssp09

5:04:05 PM: Need a central interface to allow people to buy content. Apple, Amazon, Mendeley, or publishers themselves? #brave #ssp09

5:07:18 PM: RT @lyconrad: Bilder #ssp09 #brave publishers sitting on a goldmine of quality content – but we can no longer own it in the same ways

5:08:06 PM: Value proposition to researchers: “I will save you 30% of your reading time.” People would pay for that.

5:09:52 PM: Publishers came into being because of the information overload of the new printing press. “You can trust us.” #brave #ssp09

5:10:52 PM: “Can we sell someone a subscription to our ‘trustmarks?'” [AW: I’ve been saying this for a long time] #brave #ssp09

5:11:31 PM: http://www.Knowmore.org as an example of a “trustmark.” [AW: Cool idea]

5:13:21 PM: What we’re selling isn’t the content, it isn’t the containers the content is in. It’s the trust. #brave #ssp09 [AW: Big agree there!]

5:14:33 PM: Really great talk Geoff Bilder! #brave #ssp09

5:15:40 PM: Q&A: What do we need to do?

5:17:22 PM: Anderson says “talent scouting” would be great. Ask submitters to be bloggers. Bilder says update papers to stay current. #brave #ssp09

5:22:06 PM: Q&A: How do you crowd-source trust? Anderson: It just works for us. Our audience is a lot like ourselves. #brave #ssp09

5:24:39 PM: RT @meyercarol: Crowdsourcing is a misnomer…It’s really about communities, not the great unwashed. #ssp09 #brave Bilder

5:27:08 PM: Q&A: What is the reader experience? People like paper… #brave #ssp09

5:31:12 PM: These tweets from the SSP Session “Brave Adventures: New Publishing Models for the ‘Now’ World” will be at #brave #ssp09

2:04:51 PM: Speakers: Janet Fisher, Melanie Dolechek, Jennifer Pesanelli, and Will Fisher. Moderatied by Theresa Pickel

2:06:08 PM: Will Fisher is up first: Using Social Media tools to market on the cheap. His org (ASLHA) got started in social media 18 mo. ago. #ssp09

2:06:47 PM: “Meet you members where that are at.” Facebook, Twitter, low barrier to entry. #ssp09

2:07:27 PM: ASHA is on YouTube. Started with marketing videos for their products. #ssp09

2:08:24 PM: ASHA also has ~20 member videos highlighting the work of the members and the Association. #ssp09

2:10:14 PM: Ran YouTube contest (Better Hearing and Speech month). Cash prize. Got 20 entries (2 minute vids). Was amazed at how good they were. #ssp09

2:11:49 PM: Next up: Jennifer Pesanelli on press releases. Hired PR writer to write up their science. Since ’06, 4x media hits. #ssp09

2:13:59 PM: Headlines might make your scientists cringe, but they get attention (NPR, O Magazine, NYT). #ssp09

2:15:01 PM: Now: Melanie Dolechek, talking about wikis and image libraries as resources to draw people in. #ssp09

2:15:48 PM: Free glossaries, info handouts that get students interested in the society. Images for presentations. #ssp09

2:16:14 PM: Gets people thinking of you and keeps you at the top of your mind. #ssp09

2:17:21 PM: Now: Janet Fisher. Work hard to maintain the customers you already have, especially libraries. Renewal campaigns. #ssp09

2:18:22 PM: Call subscribers, starting with the people who spend the most and go down from there. #ssp09

2:19:15 PM: ASHA is back. Now talking about podcasts [AW: Great!]. Interviews to go with feature articles. #ssp09

2:20:03 PM: Doing a safe listening concert series, did music podcasts. #ssp09

2:21:17 PM: Most popular ASHA podcast episode was about “late talkers.” Two versions: technical one and one for consumers. #ssp09

2:22:15 PM: Says fidelity doesn’t matter that much in video and audio [AW: I disagree]. “Little to no editing” [Disagree strongly there] #ssp09

2:22:50 PM: Get a sponsor for your podcast, maybe MAKE some money. #ssp09

2:24:03 PM: Jennifer: Exchange advertising. What do your readers also read? Target those pubs, even in other countries. #ssp09

2:25:22 PM: These posts are appearing live (and archived) at
#ssp09

2:26:39 PM: Get lists from partners. Offer a discount to their readers as a “member benefit” to expand, or send free issues. #ssp09

2:28:04 PM: Fisher: “We’re canceling because your journal isn’t being used.” Monitor usage. Target faculty at underperforming customers. #ssp09

2:28:59 PM: Target institutions who aren’t using the online access included with their subscription, and encourage them to use it. #ssp09

2:30:20 PM: ASHA: Sign up for Twitter. (They are @ASHAWeb). They use it for announcements and PR. #ssp09

2:31:11 PM: Talking about hashtags (#ssp09) in particular. Real-time conference info.

2:32:04 PM: Great for people who aren’t attending. Can follow he conference from the outside. #ssp09

2:32:58 PM: Instant feedback for presenters. Says it’s hard to resist checking right now (@ASHAWeb, you’re doing fine). #ssp09

2:33:40 PM: RT @meyercarol: Twitter poll–25% of room? #ssp09 Market W Fisher [Thanks, I’m in front and can’t see] #ssp09

2:35:32 PM: Boothshare. May have separate budgets for different groups in your org. Pool with other departments/organizations. Save money. #ssp09

2:37:12 PM: Add alerts, news updates, ad space, RSS, on your site. “Make your site work for you.”

2:37:58 PM: Put ads at the article level, not just on homepage. People come in through Google. #ssp09

2:38:48 PM: Fisher: market to new countries, new areas. Partner with similar pubs who aren’t direct competitors. #ssp09

2:40:17 PM: ASHA, now talking Facebook. #ssp09

2:40:45 PM: Signed up in secret. Didn’t tell senior staff. Didn’t have a plan, but did it anyway. #ssp09

2:41:39 PM: Did a survey: members went to website 2-3x/mo. Spending more time on Facebook. “Meet the members where they’re at.” #ssp09

2:42:46 PM: ASHA Has their Twitter feed running into Facebook. Also some FB-only posts. #ssp09

2:46:13 PM: Has had people connect through Facebook, say that their presence made a difference. Now has 13,000 fans on FB. #ssp09

2:47:10 PM: Publishing discounts for members. Discounted color figures, etc. #ssp09

2:48:53 PM: E-reminders to sell reprints has led to a gain in e-print sales. #ssp09

2:49:51 PM: Use communications you already send to people to ask “are you a member?” Costs nothing. #ssp09

2:51:18 PM: Build a “buyers’ guide” to journals. Becomes a reference in itself, and increases subscriptions. #ssp09

2:52:33 PM: Use a blog as a way to get out “short, executive-summary” version of your publication. “Could be the next press release.” #ssp09

2:53:48 PM: ASHA Uses Google Analytics, and loves it. #ssp09

2:56:05 PM: Marketing wanted to push info to Twitter/Facebook all the time. “I don’t want to tick them off.” Limited to 1/week. #ssp09

2:56:33 PM: Now the Q&A: Direct mail?

2:57:20 PM: Direct mail has a certain punch. People have to look through their mail. Better response than email, but $$$. #ssp09

2:58:18 PM: Q&A: Facebook is scary. What about people saying bad things?

2:59:39 PM: Maintain a presence. Students had made an unofficial FB group. Conversations will happen – engage in them. #ssp09

3:02:39 PM: Idea from audience: “Access tokens for trial access to online content.” “Harvest faculty emails” from websites if library says no. #ssp09

3:03:38 PM: PRT @meyercarol: Q Control spin on fb, twttr? A: giv up control. Against idea of social networking. Use gossip as oppty to respond. #ssp09

3:05:47 PM: Make faculty aware that online access is available, but the library isn’t using it. #ssp09

3:09:48 PM: I was just cited as a resource for this talk. Hello, if you came to find my tweets! #ssp09

3:11:13 PM: Okay, that’s it for the SSP Session: Market Big, Spend Small. Tweets are archived at #ssp09

10:52:04 AM: Speakers: Vikram Savkar (Nature), Rich Pirozzi (Wiley), Ryan Jones (PubGet) #ssp

10:52:32 AM: Vikram Savkar is up first: Who is the Google Generation? #ssp

10:53:22 AM: @adamweiss — I’m in the Publishing for the Google Generation session, liveblogging via Twitter. #ssp

10:54:20 AM: The young generation has a fundamental cognitive shift. Three paradigms: Seach Engines, Crowd-Sourcing, Free Information. #ssp

10:56:43 AM: How have these shifts changed the mindset of the Google Generation? #ssp

10:57:56 AM: First up: Search Engines. Searching for information used to be a defined process: Right Library,>Right Area>Right Shelf>Right Book #ssp

10:58:24 AM: Information should be one step away: Search>Answer

10:59:30 AM: If a piece of content doesn’t display it’s virtue within 2 seconds, they won’t look at it further. Info needs to be punchy. #ssp

11:00:49 AM: Crowd-Sourcing: Wikipedia is the quintessential example. It’s the most convenient resource, if not the best. #ssp

11:01:38 AM: The Google Generation believes information is a public trust, and should be free. #ssp

11:02:44 AM: Information should have parallel accessibility, be inexpensive, be convenient, and be “punchy.” #ssp

11:03:28 AM: The Google Generation is not a monolith: — it is segmented. Target your segment, not the whole. #ssp

11:04:25 AM: How do we bridge the gap? Savkar has some success stories. First up: Facebook. #ssp

11:05:59 AM: Publishing? Everyone on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube is a publisher. Also, Email and IM -> adds “social velocity” to information. #ssp

11:08:19 AM: [AW: I question email as a tool of the Google Generation — Savkar talks about email forwards. That’s all on Facebook and Blogs now] #ssp

11:09:20 AM: Recommendations for the new world will be made (AW: soon, I guess) #ssp

11:10:13 AM: 84% of students look to Wikipedia as a first-stop for info, not the texbook. #ssp

11:12:07 AM: Young people: are in the driver seat, are hyper-critical of insincerity, have the same goals we do (but use different tools) #ssp

11:13:23 AM: Google generation will mature, and appreciate structured info more, but not completely. #ssp

11:14:50 AM: Vikram Savkar recommends: Content is King, Protect it; Don’t repurpose, reconcieve; Partner; Hire Young People. #ssp

11:15:37 AM: Content that is good will bring an audience. The death of content will not happen [AW: Agreed!] #ssp

11:16:41 AM: Don’t just repurpose your other materials — make thing just for the web and for young people. #ssp

11:17:43 AM: Hire young people “it’s the best form of market research” #ssp09

11:18:09 AM: Hire people who are good at managing evolution, not just publishing. #ssp09

11:18:55 AM: Rich Pirozzi is up now. Will demo Wiley Plus. #ssp09

11:21:25 AM: For #ssp09 attendees: I’m posting my “Publishing for the Google Generation” tweets at . I’ve mistagged a few “#ssp” Oops

11:21:52 AM: RT @charlierapple: @AdamWeiss but unfortunately illegal (in the UK, at least – not sure about US?) to discriminate on age … #ssp09

11:24:14 AM: WileyPLUS is an online teaching and learning environment. Digital textbook with feedback, resources, multipath studying. #ssp09

11:26:16 AM: Wiley research: Students don’t read the book, they start with homework and work backwards. Want small bites of info, and feedback. #ssp09

11:27:53 AM: Students work on different schedules: Highest traffic on Sunday nights (homework due on Monday morning). #ssp09

11:28:45 AM: Students like WileyPLUS. Easy to use, positively impacts the way they study. #ssp09

11:29:52 AM: This section of the talk is bordering on advertising for WileyPLUS (esp. testimonials). The survey stuff was good, though. #ssp09

11:30:58 AM: Says he won’t show critical feedback. Why not? That would have made me feel better about it being an ad. #ssp09

11:32:48 AM: He’s logging in to the system. Showing student interface. I think it looks like it was designed in 2002, text is WAY too small. #ssp09

11:35:04 AM: Showing online version of textbook. Browseable by section, not just chapter. I don’t see a “search” box. For the Google Generation? #ssp09

11:36:50 AM: The full screen button doesn’t do what he says. As a “young person,” I think of YouTube full screen, not 2/3rd screen like he showed. #ssp09

11:40:12 AM: Assignments can provide links to the textbook section that covered that material. Can get homework answers instantly (mult. choice). #ssp09

11:42:10 AM: Also has whiteboard markup view. #ssp09

11:43:18 AM: RT @drs1969: Wiley plus – seems to be a closed shop for textbook stuff. Don’t see any links to external (web) material. #ssp09 [AW:Agreed}

11:44:52 AM: Future of WileyPLUS: Increase collaboration and allow students to use it even if prfessor doens’t want to. #ssp09

11:45:15 AM: Ron Jones is up now. Pubget lets librarians and others to bridge the gap to the Google Generation. #ssp09

11:46:56 AM: PubMed misses “speed and flexibility of access.” It works like a library, not like Google. #ssp09

11:50:48 AM: PubMed search takes to to publisher’s site, but do you have access? It depends on the institution you’re at. #ssp09

11:51:23 AM: pubget links right to the content, and displays it immediately (if you have access, it’s just a link). #ssp09

11:51:56 AM: pubget is a free service that makes monet from ads, and a premim service on top of what they showed here. #ssp09

12:02:07 PM: RT @drs1969: @AdamWeiss But PubMed IS indexed by Google. and it ranks very well indeed. #ssp09 [AW: I was documenting there, not commenting]

8:51:38 AM: The opening session of the Society for Scholoarly Publishing Annual Conference is about to start. #ssp09

8:52:32 AM: Intro by October Ivins, outgoing president is on stage. Says there are 580 attendees (53 international) at this meeting. #ssp09

8:53:39 AM: 8 past presidents and three founding members in attendance. #ssp09

8:55:13 AM: Special addition to the program: Library of Congress Copyright Office is hosting a lunch roundtable. Find Jewel Player for info. #ssp09

8:56:21 AM: Note: Floor locations in the program are incorrect. 1st floor meand 4th, 2nd means 3rd. #ssp09

8:58:06 AM: All of my Twitter posts are being posted here for this session: #ssp09

9:00:24 AM: Jay Schafer (co-chair of conference) is on stage. Thanking program committee members and others who helped. #ssp09

9:01:16 AM: Electronic program evaluation form will be sent via email after the conference. #ssp09

9:03:12 AM: Lois Smith is now introducing Adam Bly, CEO of Seed Media Group — the keynote speaker. #ssp09

9:05:04 AM: Bly was the youngest ever researcher at the National Research Council of Canada, received Golden Jubilee Medal from QEII. #ssp09

9:05:44 AM: Adam Bly is on stage talking about dinner last night with scholarly publishing greats. #ssp09

9:06:18 AM: Start with 30,000-50,000-foot view of the industry. #ssp09

9:07:05 AM: Current world themes. Financial Crisis, Geopolitical problems, environment. #ssp09

9:07:52 AM: The world is interconnected. Can’t understand epidemics or markets without understanding climate change. #ssp09

9:08:55 AM: Everything is a cycle, and interconnected. Showing image of Tuvalu as example. Sought “climate change refugee” status from Australia. #ssp09

9:09:19 AM: Obama quote about hte importance of investing in science. #ssp09

9:10:08 AM: Bly: “Science is now widely viewed as the key to … transformation in the 21st century.” #ssp09

9:10:50 AM: Now is the time to be optimistic about what we know, and what we CAN know. #ssp09

9:11:05 AM: RT @TAC_NISO: Bly: Support for & investment in science is critical for a economic growth and prosperity #ssp09

9:11:35 AM: Showing Hubble deep field. Our place in the cosmos. #ssp09

9:12:27 AM: Fusion experiment begins in California tomorrow. NASA’s Kepler is looking for planets like Earth. #ssp09

9:13:10 AM: RT @nickwwpt: Most optimistic meeting I have been to this year..so far anyway #ssp09

9:13:41 AM: Bly’s youth was full of chemistry sets, “blowing things up,” and science fairs. #ssp09

9:14:28 AM: Went into biomedical work. Started seeing science as “something that moves the world.” #ssp09

9:15:29 AM: Launched Seed because he wanted to advance the idea that “Science is Culture.” #ssp09

9:16:15 AM: “Today we stand on the cusp of a great 21st century scientific renaissance.”

9:16:58 AM: “Today science can be more to us than just a subject.” Can be the primary lens through which we view the world. #ssp09

9:17:57 AM: Human rights, city planning, democracy, are all influenced by science. #ssp09

9:18:15 AM: Science is more critical than ever in terms of it’s power to change the world.

9:19:39 AM: Bly hopes that what he says transcends science and talks about knowledge. #ssp09

9:20:44 AM: “Flip-flopping is almost a virtue” if you are an architect of knowledge.

9:21:03 AM: @edrodriguez I understand. Live tweeting a conference for the next two days. It will be safe after that!

9:21:41 AM: Massive change in the industry. Shifts in industry and world. #ssp

9:23:12 AM: To my followers: Live-tweeting a conference for next two days. If you”unfollow the torrent” as @edrodriguez says, it will be over on Sat.

9:23:36 AM: Scientist are in an during quest for the truth.

9:23:52 AM: Scientist are in an during quest for the truth. Observation: Science is not a closed system.

9:24:44 AM: CP Snow talked about 2 cultures: science and the humanities 50 years ago. Now, science is porous.

9:25:57 AM: 65% of scientists cite literature as having an influence on their science. Especially neuroscience. #ssp

9:26:27 AM: “Science is fundamentally a human endeavor.” #ssp

9:27:16 AM: Global collaboration is fundamental. 62% of scientists are actively involved in international collaboration. #ssp

9:27:43 AM: 77% scientists say that peer review is still a fundamental part of science.

9:28:18 AM: 70% say that science can advance the cause of peace in the world.

9:29:09 AM: 61% of scientists feel obliged to speak with journalists. Bly says that youger people will increase that number. #ssp

9:30:28 AM: 83% of scientist feel obliged — as scientists — to be environmentally conscious. Have not mobilized this group. #ssp

9:31:07 AM: 5 million working scientists in US today. 22 million degree holders. Huge growth in recent years. #ssp

9:32:04 AM: Greatest scientist population density is under 34 demographic. #ssp

9:32:51 AM: Today the world creates 15 Petabytes of new data in a day. #ssp

9:33:41 AM: Radio took 38 years to reach the user base Facebook had after two. #ssp

9:34:39 AM: 84% of scientists believe that papers should be freely available. 44% feel strongly about this.. #ssp

9:35:00 AM: RT @pablofe: so far, the keynote #ssp09 could have applied to several points in history

9:36:32 AM: Scientists are now using the web to post sophisticated info online (e.g. real-time data).

9:36:52 AM: 34% of scientists now blog. #ssp

9:37:53 AM: RT @cfmeds: What about the other 20-40%. 30% of scientists not interested in world peace? (That’ll be the evil scientists?) #ssp09

9:38:14 AM: “Science is a culture of DIY.” #ssp

9:39:14 AM: Scientists fix things. Scientists don’t wait for us. However, these DIY methods don’t integrate, and are redundant. #ssp

9:40:23 AM: It was 20 years ago that the world wide web was created by a scientist to solve a problem. #ssp

9:41:46 AM: China and India will always have more scientists than the US, UK or Canada.

9:43:11 AM: As China and the Arab world advance, the issue for us is not just output. Will science be done the same way with these changes? #ssp

9:44:21 AM: What will science look like with Chinese and Arab influences? #ssp

9:45:19 AM: Seed launched science blogs in Brazil, and they quickly overtook science blogs in Germany. #ssp

9:46:30 AM: Science has changed: Large Hadron Collider, supercomputers, multidisciplinary cancer research. #ssp

9:47:39 AM: The scholarly publishing industry came to be in another revolution: the industrial revolution. #ssp

9:49:01 AM: In 1800s, we needed a way to disseminate accurate scientific information. Needed a way to communicate. #ssp

9:49:56 AM: Scientists used to communicate their findings via letters. #ssp

9:51:18 AM: RT @annmichael: Adam Bly #ssp09 are blogs the current version of the letters Adam is showing us now? [AW: I was thinking the same thing.]

9:53:02 AM: Bly: “We need to architect a brand new infrastructure … based on the understanding of a new generation of innovators.” #ssp

9:54:27 AM: We need a digital core, not just digital tools. #ssp

9:54:58 AM: RT @TAC_NISO: Problem with looking back on nature of science in 17th C is the present scale is impossible for 1 person to understand all

9:55:46 AM: We need a free flow of information – today’s system is designed to limit it. #ssp

9:57:07 AM: We need to advance interdisciplinary science. We should see a wave of mergers and joint ventures in the scholarly publishing community. #ssp

9:58:27 AM: We need to go further to connect the developed and the developing world. Insure that IP rights allow for innovation. #ssp

9:59:53 AM: Librarians: we need to extract new knowledge from information. #ssp

10:01:31 AM: The challenge is to develop a new level of information literacy. #ssp

10:04:11 AM: Societies and conferences bring scientists together. We need to now “think virtually” to let them do science together. #ssp

10:04:53 AM: Bly: “We need to lead the social change toward universal science literacy.” #ssp

10:06:20 AM: Publishers need to collaborate. “They’re not ‘our readers.'” Scientists and scholars pursue truth. They need information. #ssp

10:08:31 AM: Science publishers need to think about whether or not we are servicing scientists. #ssp

10:10:09 AM: Scientists’ blogs are like the letters of the 19th century. Today, the challenge is to make these contribute to the scholarly record. #ssp

10:12:58 AM: Seed is launching ResearchBlogging 2.0 today, and ReseachBloggingConnect, a free application to take blogs back into journals. #ssp

10:13:40 AM: Announcement: ResearchBlogging can now link to arXiv.org and PubMed from within posts. #ssp

10:14:33 AM: New channel on ScienceBlogs to advance the conversation about information science. #ssp

10:15:51 AM: ScienceBlogs just surpassed 2 million unique visitors on the network this past week. #ssp

10:17:18 AM: New data visualization project from GE: http://healthimagination.com #ssp09

10:17:57 AM: RT @TAC_NISO: Not sure I appreciate the advertisements that Bly ended with. #ssp09

10:18:12 AM: RT @nickwwpt: Fellow SSP tweeters if you want to meet up feel free to use our booth(206) as a staging point in coffee break..#ssp09

10:19:41 AM: Bly wants a world connected by science and imagination. #ssp09

10:20:53 AM: Adam Bly on scientific publishers: “Scientists rely on us, and the world relies on them.” #ssp09