Tame The Web

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1945553,00.html

These kids have been socially conditioned in a universe that runs parallel to the one inhabited by most folks in the media business. They’ve been playing computer games of mind-blowing complexity forever. They’re resourceful, knowledgeable and natural users of computer and communications technology. They’re Digital Natives – accustomed to creating content of their own – [...]

Thought-provoking and insightful article at Educause.

http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm06/eqm0640.asp

Policy Disconnects
Drawing a clear line between technology and policy can be difficult. For example, how many of the characteristics of current libraries (identified by the list below) are driven purely by technology or by policy? These traits include:

Mainly electronic text-based collections with multimedia content noticeably absent

Constructed for individual use [...]

Here’s a clearinghouse entry of a couple of articles you may want to add to your reading pile:

Heard people banter about AJAX and how a lot of Web 2.0 apps are using it? A great post by Jesse James Garrett is here:
http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php

And what of Folksonomies and Metadata? Checkout “Metadata for the Masses” by Peter Merholz [...]

Dr. O’Connor at UNT sends it to the doc students.

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/05/issue/feature_library.asp

We were assigned a wonderful article for SLIS 6000 by Marcia Bates called “Mining the Substrate of Information Science,” in which she discusses the underlying functions of the discipline. here are my thoughts, as posted to our class board:

?Currently,? Bates writes, ?the wheel is being reinvented everyday on the information superhighway? because of digital information [...]

Steven points to this article about blogs in corporations and it’s a good one:

http://www.marketingprofs.com/4/wreden5.asp

He urges us to apply it to library blog environments. I agree. Note:

“10. Develop an organizational content strategy now

Email, blogs, wikis, Web, voice mail, faxes, newsletters, advertising, PR. No wonder it is so hard for organizations to speak with the consistent [...]

I grabbed this from LISNews (I think) days ago and forgot to post it:

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/states/florida/counties/broward_county/8289061.htm?1c

I work the reference desk and I know what it’s like when all of your terminals are full. I’ve seen arguments, scary situations and downright nastiness over access to the Internet. I’m all about access but as the article states it needs [...]

Did you miss this one? Or maybe it’s time to re-read it… it’s a gem:

http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/feb04/voice.shtml