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Spock ...

Spock or spread your privacy on the net!

Ouch! What I feared seems to materialize. Spock, new search engine on the personal data of individuals is born!

Spock quesako?
* Presentation
Spock is a search engine that aims to gather and collect personal data about individuals. Thus, a query on the name of a person and Spock gives you everything he has found!
* How does it work?
Spock collects all personal information that you or other persons or organizations have laissertraîner voluntarily or not on the net. Using Technology other search engines to do this, Spock gives a more complete biography of the leftover data are important. Using many other sources (such as the wikipedia encyclopedia), Spock is constantly acroître its database of information suggesting the worst

Spock: What dangers?
The first danger - and not least - of this new search engine is the invasion of privacy. So anyone who will capture your name may have information that you would surely not want him to get. For example, your neighbor will know when your last layoff, his reasons, second day of your marriage ...
The second danger is the use of rogue for this information: the road to hell is paved with good intentions!
The third danger is how far will this go search engine. Will there any limits? He overrides the law?
The fourth danger is the risk of retribution from some people. I do not like X, I will then provide all the information I have on him to Spock. Or risk of misinformation by giving erroneous information voluntarily

Spock: how to fight?
To fight against the perverse effects of this search engine:
- Do not drag personal information about you anywhere (in the first place your address). If you enter personal details please ensure that they are not sold (see the small marks near or just above the button "OK")!
- Tell your friends not to give personal information about you to anyone or anywhere. Now, even a personal site used to power Spock!
- Do you create a virtual identity
- Do not hesitate to assert your rights (invasion of privacy, defamation, ...) so that Spock is not a antorse to international laws.

Conclusion: Internet increasingly drift to the invasion of privacy. I am convinced that Spock is unfortunately still a step towards the "I know everything about anything and anyone." In the end, hope that makes Spock "plop!". Fighting!

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Ecolinformationologue

Ecolinformationologue: the new librarian?

While infopollution is constantly increasing, librarians and other information professionals now have a job ecologist information more than ever resonance. However, to participate in this ecology Information should it the fruit of a specialty of the professionals' information or not, everyone should he become aware of this problem like what happens to the environment?

1) The librarian and the information ecology
Managing information is especially to distinguish between genuinely useful information and infopollution. Who better than the librarian can track this information pollution ? So the pollution continues to grow, especially with the opening of a multitude of information networks including the Internet is the most fertile soil. Each product information, useful mostly to himself, but networking is combined with other information equally unhelpful. The vicious circle then continues to accelerate the worsening state of the information environment. The librarian must be the ecologist information. But also a personal work, it is essential that users form first to the existence of this pervasive before infopollution highlight the real dangers. Everyone must become ecologist this information, so is the future of information-communication!

2) All "infoécologues?
How not produce of infopollution? Select the information to be provided. Distinguish infopollution information "clean".
Here are 3 themes (among hundreds of others) it is necessary to address in order to counteract the poisoning informational in which we are sinking. This pollution is worse than air pollution such as it is propagated in real time to the 4 corners of the earth, feeding on itself, and especially seems to have a promising future given the limited attention that it carries its contributors! However the problem of information ecology awareness seems more and more people in the image of the important fight anti-spam or anti-advertising stickers that are popping up everywhere, for example ...
So here is the ideal approach to follow for an information ecology:
- Know what the infopollution (its different forms, its propagation, its producers, ...), knowing its dangers
- Do not produce infopollution
- Deny and counter infopollution
- Raising his family to the existence and risks of infopollution
short, an approach that approximates strangely traditional ecology. However, contrary to what one might think, where the information is a critical threshold!

3) Towards a generalized poisoning!
The infopollution is everywhere. Our mailboxes are overflowing with spam, advertisements are present even in our food, news flourish useless trivia (Mr. Brown's dog bit the cat from Madam Lustucru!). Worse! We are ourselves producing the infopollution ... Paradoxically, I also write this I produce a kind of infopollution. Why? Because some have already dealt with this subject! Yes we are suffocating. Yes we are sinking in a society not of information but the infopollution.
short, what? Understand to act!

4) Different forms of infopollution
In fact what do we not infopollution? I spoke in effect since earlier and provided you do not know more. Here are various things that I would call infopollution:
- Advertising Information
- useless or useful information to a small circle of people but made available to others
- Information already dealt with that can be accessed (eg In a blog post dealing with the same subject with the same arguments that section of a site B)
- Information that annoying person who receives
- Information which, by its abundance Noit
essential information - information or too little too consistent
Finally, when we see the complexity of the problem of infopollution, do not you think that there is a tendency towards a trade full for his salary?

5) The écolinformationologue
Ecolinformationologue ... That's the name that could be the specialist in the fight against the infopollution. A sort of policeman of the information ecology. Its mission: training and public information, the fight against pollution. Create such a business is as essential, nay stratégique for a company for example. Imagine this specialist filtering information internally and externally ... then imagine the comfort and time savings for all employees of the company! The écolinformationologue can then present itself as the strongest link in the company, the cycle of its operation, and especially support essential for information professionals!
Unfortunately, even today, this job does not really exist. the workload is assumed by the information professionals, who are already overwhelmed, do what they can. A
when awareness of the usefulness of this new profession?
the wise ...

Ultimately, the information ecology is an issue central to the business of information professionals. However, it is each person must be aware of this problem and fight against the infopollution. I finally stresses the need for a specific job écolinformationologue order to alleviate this infopollution or default of the counter to prevent it pollutes all systems of information!

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Future doc.

The documentation does it have a future?

a time when the tools are perfected and provide interfaces always easier to use, what role for information professionals and documentation? Also, the documentation does it have a future?

1) Simple tools ... Appearance!
The tools for information management offer simpler interfaces always to a maximum of users can use these tools without training. However, these powerful tools are not used to fair performance. Indeed, in many cases users do not use as basic functions and never come in configurations called "advanced". With good reason they do not understand it! So, how useful provide high-performance tools to an audience that uses only a small part of their performance?

2) The professional in information services: a trainer
The primary role of professional information-documentation is therefore to educate users and potential users. It amounts in effect to discover the usefulness and power of the advanced features of these tools. Also, he must learn for those users to choose the most efficient tool and not confined to what they know. Fear of the unknown that is more pervasive in the information and documentation; rightly since it is quick to get lost and wasting time. Finally it is to training tools and tools that any information professional documentation, which it is, where he works, must be done. It is the work efficiency of each!

3) The fantasy of self
User says independent, at least wants to own. This is also why it tends to, like the training that he has taught college, high school, in higher education and more so in his work. However, this autonomy "acquired" is only an illusion, a fantasy I said. Indeed, how to enjoy a real autonomy when we do not know the variety of tools, when we do not know rather than choose such as when one does not use all the features of these tools? Yes the user can be independent. But a self-cons-productive. Is this the price to pay: a user self-cons but productive. This autonomy is therefore an illusion, a fantasy for the user. While autonomy is an ideal. But a utopian ideal. Knowledge of tools and their diversity is more than ever a skill only acquired through a long learning "basic", a common practice, especially continuing education. The information professions and the documentation does not therefore find it not there legitimacy?

4) And tomorrow? Tomorrow
tools will be increasingly efficient, ever more diverse. The information pollution will poison all the information and communication networks. Professionals in the information and documentation will then more than ever as a mediator of information, trainer information, and especially of "écolinformationologue" ... I'll tell you about in another post:)

Certainly the tools are always easier to use but a sub-use thereof. While ownership of these tools is facilitated, but the ignorance of their diversity and their specific causes misuse. In short, without professional information and documentation, users retreat into a semblance of autonomy, will think himself so powerful that it is cons-productive. In short, hell would be required informational generating economic and social catastrophes unprecedented! Beginning of a Hollywood script? But the reality we face. Believe in the usefulness of professional and above all, recognize their role!