[Air-l] researchers ???

ren at aldermangroup.com ren at aldermangroup.com
Thu May 6 02:37:10 PDT 2004


Hamish> So saying "internet researcher" is so broad as to be 
almost meaningless without further qualification?

But maybe that’s the point. 20 years ago ‘internet 
researcher’ would have been meaningless as no one had heard 
of the internet, possibly 10 years ago it would have applied 
to people that work somewhere in the lower levels of the 
protocol stack – today it means anything you like. 

Though next long job title I have I think I’m going to insist 
it has the phrase ‘Interweb thingy’ in it.

Ren
www.renreynolds.com
terranova.blogs.com


---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 11:21:49 +0100
>From: Hamish Cunningham <H.Cunningham at dcs.shef.ac.uk>  
>Subject: Re: [Air-l] researchers ???  
>To: air-l at aoir.org
>
>The problem with "internet" is that it is such a big term - 
from
>the IP protocol to community groups. So saying "internet 
researcher"
>is so broad as to be almost meaningless without further 
qualification?
>
>For example, I work with people at BT labs on a project 
called SEKT
>(http://sekt.semanticweb.org/) that develops semantic 
technology for
>knowledge management; I work with people at the BBC on a 
project
>called PrestoSpace (http://prestospace.ina.fr) about 
preserving and
>accessing audiovisual media in digital libraries. Just 
accross campus
>from me are historians busily transcribing 18th Century 
court reports
>for on-line access. Upstairs people are modelling complex 
mathematical
>entities called X-machines that may help verify the 
correctness of
>net servers. All are clearly "internet research", but are 
quite
>diverse - and that's just stuff that I personally have at 
the top of
>my head.
>
>I suppose that if you work on the statistics of net usage, 
or similar,
>then you might end up shortenning your description to net 
researcher,
>but it wouldn't be very meaningful?
>
>Best,
>
>Hamish
>
>
>--
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>
>ren at aldermangroup.com wrote:
>> I’ve never been ‘internet researcher’ but I used to 
>> be ‘global head of commercial internet strategy’ when I 
was 
>> at (at the time) the worlds biggest ‘isp’. 
>> 
>> Previous to that I was at British Telecommunications who 
have 
>> a large research facility at Martlesham Heath in the UK 
and 
>> there I’m sure there were entire departments called 
internet 
>> research and room-on-room of people called internet 
>> researchers – the kinds of stuff done in the labs ranged 
from 
>> basic research into things like protocols (resulting in 
RFCs 
>> etc) all the way up to commercial applications of 
technology, 
>> and, pause – futurology, shudder.
>> 
>> BT labs home page is here: http://www.labs.bt.com, I’m 
sure 
>> their PR people would be happy to help if you were 
interested 
>> in job titles and stuff there. 
>> 
>> Ren  
>> www.renreynolds.com
>> terranova.blogs.com
>> 
>> 
>> ---- Original message ----
>> 
>>>Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 14:30:03 +0930
>>>From: ET <et at tarik.com.au>  
>>>Subject: [Air-l] researchers ???  
>>>To: air-l at aoir.org
>>>
>>>hi all,
>>>
>>>just a question for the groups members - hopefully some 
may 
>> 
>> wish to reply.
>> 
>>>The "modern" internet has now been going for about 10 
years.
>>>As a result we have many new professions...
>>>we have web designers, programmers and a host of 
specialist 
>> 
>> IT positions.
>> 
>>>Does anyone in here work full time in a position that is 
>> 
>> called 
>> 
>>>"Internet Researcher" or that one could take to be, from 
the 
>> 
>> job 
>> 
>>>responsibilities, to be a full time internet researcher?
>>>Does anyone know of another person who has the above role?
>>>I am particularly interested to know if anyone works for a 
>> 
>> company in 
>> 
>>>such a role.
>>>
>>>thanks in advance for your time,
>>>
>>>regards
>>>
>>>Eero Tarik
>>>Adelaide
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>
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