Live blogging: David Pogue's keynote at AALL2008

I've never actually liveblogged before, but I'm sitting with some fellow geeks at the AALL keynote and just paid for wifi access, so why not? The twist: I'm also knitting a sock and Twittering.

Honorary badge: "ich bin law librarian!!!"

Mac nut - yay! (Law librarians need more Mac evangelism.)

Slide graphic: "everyone's going to think I'm into Dianetics"

Will focus on five or six macro trends.

Last telegram: an ad for herbal viagra

I didd a lot of research - googled for six minutes

The future: nobody knows. End of Keynote!

Not.

VOIP. Why isn't Skype on a cellphone?

T-mobile hotspot at home - transitions seamlessly to T-mobile network. (This was announced June 29.)

Watching Grand Central commercial. I heard about that one years ago--didn't know it was still around.

Text 466-45 with query to get closest query match from Google.

Other things: weather, flight number, stock quotes, movie name and zip, definitions, driving directions, unit and currency conversions.

Pogue demo-ing Goog411.

Cha Cha. (I know someone who signed up to do this. She is not a librarian. I wouldn't want to do that!)

X-treme sarcasm: voicemail directions "when you're finished, you may hang up" Pogue: NOOOOOO!

Voicemail alternatives/text transcription services: callwave, phone tag, spinvox.

Big news about iphone is not what it is, but how it came about - carriers not consulted. Cingular CEO didn't see iPhone till two weeks before launch. Everyone copying model.

Hulu - one 15 sec commercial. Better than TV, but you're sitting at your computer looking like a dork.

Splintering graph includes mystery items phlogs (phone blogs) and Krogs. Anyone know what a Krog is?

Comcast: 9000 hours/month of on-demand everything. Why should shows come on at a certain time? (Since technical limits are no more. TV as giant jukebox.

It doesn't matter that blu-ray won format war, since it's not going to be about plastic discs - but this may not happen for another decade before 50% of households don't have high speed internet.

We need national movement for 27-hour day--or common sense. (Me, I'd bet on the 27-hr day)

Skpe phones: cost $175, then no fees again, ever

Trend coming: wireless everywhere, everything. Cameras, kindle, etc.

Eye-fi wireless card for camera - will automatically transmit high res pictures to your computer and ~20 photosharing services. An endless memory card.

Talking about Web 2.0. "I don't know if you're aware of web 2.0..."

Microsoft's blog - minesweeper/mimesweeper

Pogue giving us a copyright challenge quiz. When Pogue gave this to a college audience, not a single hand raised.

Ethics/credibility issues related to blogging, YouTube--LonelyGirl15.

Net neutrality. (Glad Pogue discussed this, since the proposed net neutrality program got turned down.)

Rattling off amazing examples we haven't heard of: Prosper (ordinary people making microloans), Kiva (same thing, but third-world countries), Goloco (ridesharing), E-petitions.uk, Who is Sick? (probably the first time the words "bloody stool" have been uttered in AALL keynote.)

Keeping up, overwhelmed...

Give it time, things settle down, people push back (e.g. net neutrality)

Pogue singing history of music downloads in 2 minutes...sing me a song, you're the music/tv man [Steve Jobs]...Tube, I've got YouTube...young man, you've just been sued by the R.I.A.A....people behind me are singing along.

And a well-deserved standing ovation.