You wanna lead a session at BarCampRDU? Add it here. We'll need your sessions name, your name, a brief description, and if you're looking for people to co-lead your session or whatever.
- Social Networks - FredStutzman. We'll spend a session talking about Social Networking Websites, such as Myspace, Facebook and Linked In. We'll look at them, figure out why people use them, and share ideas about how businesses can leverage social networks.
- Information Archeology - Kevin Webb. We We can talk about the tools and methods for the regular Joe to do cool stuff with large amounts of data. Search doesn't just have to be left for Google to take care of and even then there are more ways to slice stuff than just full text queries. Let's explore a few examples of data that can't be viewed right now (due to non-existent digital representation, inadequate tools or the fact that no one knows about it) and see what's involved in make them available. As an example I can talk about my work with the All Patents Initiative and the Internet Archive's Open Library Project but it would be great to jam with others (ibiblio?!). Let me know if you're interested in collaborating.