With applause cheers and someone in the audience waving a newspaper with the headline 'RECOUNT', Al Gore gave the keynote talk on Sunday eve. Preceeded by humor and seriousness, Lexis Nexis introduced Al Gore by giving a detailed time series presentation showing the impact of An Inconvenient Truth on the numbers of published news reports.
noted during Gore's speech:
#the increased need for information professionals with the flood of increased access to information content.
#the closure of the EPA libraries and applauded those EPA librarians who are hanging in there.
#discussed information as a strategic resourse
#wiretapping citizen conversations is essentially adding more hay to the needle in the hatstack hunt
#worked as an Army reporter carrying an M16 and a pencil
and later became an investigative reporter
#talked about how being a reporter helped him become an elected official because 'It's all about information'
#implored information professionals to work on information policies to allow reasonable access to information such as net neutrality
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posted live from the convention center
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