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On the coming 16th & 17th October, Singapore will be playing hosted to the an international event, called “Bridging World Conference 2008″. This event will be held at Hotel Intercontinental Singapore, just beside the National Library building.

“The Bridging Worlds conference is aimed at information/knowledge/culture professionals and educators. It focuses on how the information, knowledge and cultural institutions are responding to the social and information future while continuing to connect with their diverse communities in appropriate spaces, engaging with them to build the culture, information and knowledge dividend.”

A total of 231 attendees from Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, Denmark, Germany, Philippines, India, Indonesia, Laos, Lithuania, Malaysia, Myanmar, Netherlands, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, UAE, UK, USA and Vietnam will be at the conference.

Will there be any well known librarians blogger there?

Yes, Ivan Chew, Singapore’s Rambling Librarian will be presenting a paper. Jenny Levine and John Blyberg from USA, I have been reading and following up on their blog entry. They are here to present too.

In March 2006, John was named a Mover & Shaker by Library Journal. In September 2006, John took First Prize in the Talis Mashing-up the Library competition. While,

Kathryn Greenhill from Murdoch University, Australia will be here too. She a well known librarian who explores Web 2.0 and virtual world in Australia’s librarian stage. The last I saw her was at Melbourne at the VALA 2008 in February.

And the rest I am not to sure.

What about me?
Nope, I am not presenting any papers. This conference is more for those are already in the league. My work is really new and fresh, only 2 years. I will be there to absorb knowledge, adopt and bring back to Hazman Labs Inc., for development and come out a new type next year.

Even though my blog is one of those typical nerd bloggers, I don’t really think I meet the librarian 2.0 requirement. Well, in short, my world has not been bridging yet. I better sit back and just learn.

How can you catch up with Hazman Aziz?

In this conference, since there is Wifi connection, courtesy of iCell Network. This means, I can use my free Singtel access to update you guys. This is the plan:

Twittering … you can check out on my website tabs section, twittering tab. Latest twitter will be appearing there, as I updated through my mobile phone (HTC Touch). Sorry, I don’t have a iPhone yet. Till, an organisation wants to sponsor me.

So what will happen here? I am using either Ping.fm or HelloTxt.com and push out small packets of message on the the internet and it will display on this tab. If you are log into Facebook, a closed community, you will observing my states and updates changes as the screen shots shows below:

Find out what I am updating in Facebook

So, there will two types of communities benefit from the knowledge gain. This will actually align to the theme of the conference:

Knowing . Learning . Sharing

and also the framework of Singapore Library school:

Awareness >> Knowledge >> Experimentation >> Immersion

The other librarians are also twittering. So are the organisers. Check out on the tabs to this post.

Maybe, i should start to reveal my Netvibes project, which has been silently build since Project Ginger was initialed. I guess this is really a pure librarian development. As for mine, this project is really set up from the knowledge of a librarian, providing information. There are some tools. You can feedback, but please not report some of the snippet of codes (widgets) are not working well. Because this is really a prototype, that I am planing to build a bridge between commercial freely application and back to library services. Maybe, it is not intuitive enough.

Next, what I will try out video … and see how I can play around with it during this conference. Let’s me play around with the tabs here on Hazman Labs, Inc and see what you can get.