Categories Web 2.0 & Library 2.0

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Articles about Web 2.0 and/or Library 2.0 concepts

“Life Caching” The Ultimate Putting Yourself Out There

Via Stephen’s Lighthouse: http://www.trendwatching.com/trends/LIFE_CACHING.htm LIFE CACHING’: collecting, storing and displaying one’s entire life, for private use, or for friends, family, even the entire world to peruse. The LIFE CACHING trend owes much to bloggers: ever since writing and publishing one’s diary has become as easy as typing in www.blogger.com, millions of people have taken to digitally indexing their thoughts, rants and God knows what else; all online, disclosing the virtual caches of their daily lives, exciting or boring. Next came moblogging, connecting camera phones to online diaries, allowing not only for more visuals to be added to blogs, but also […]

Your Top Five Favorite Social Software Sites

Via The Social Software Blog: I’m also curious to know what social services folks are actually using the most, beyond whatever is the latest hot company we’re talking about on the blawgs… Oh! I like lists! And I like Social Software! Here goes: 1. Flickr 2. Bloglines/NetnewsWire/Safari RSS Reader 3. iChat/IM 4. Technorati 5. Last.FM What are your Top Five Favorite Social Software Sites?

Will Richardson on Transparency, Teachers & Tools

I always enjoy Will’s posts because so many of them can apply to librarians as well as teachers. His recent “It’s Not the Teachers” is no exception. And now that the technologies create as much transparency as they do, it’s even more about vision and leadership (or lack thereof.) This is good stuff. So often, Will states, teachers implement new technologies and campaign for their use UP to administrators. How many librarians have done the same? About blogs? Wikis? And this blows me away: (Bolding is mine) Obviously, I think that needs to change. We need to create ecologies at […]

Abram on Library 2.0 and the Cluetrain

Rock On! Read Stephen Abram’s The Shop Window: Compelling and Dynamic Library Portals: There has been much discussion lately about the emergence of the next generation Web, colloquially referred to as Web 2.0. This is the emerging interactive Web, where two-way conversations are the norm, indeed the expectation. People demand these forms of advanced interaction with people and information. Those of us in Libraryland will be naive to ignore it, for it could hurt us. This emerging paradigm of the two-way Web is perfect for libraries. Indeed, some library folks are starting to talk about Library 2.0. Cool! It brings […]

The Collected Principles of Library 2.0 for Pondering

Returning from the Gaming Symposium, my head is FULL of thoughts about libraries, new services and adapting to change. I’m also awash in wrapping my head around the ongoing (and rapid) discussion playing out here and there in the Biblioblogosphere. I was reminded that Chad and Miller invited additions to their principles, and added my own over at ALA TechSource. I found a few others as well, and thought I might make a list to further my thinking. This is certainly not all-inclusive by any means and is intended just to paint a bigger picture. Ken Chad & Paul Miller: […]

Library 2.0 is not about Technology

The definition of Library 2.0 is still shaking out across the Blogosphere. Jessamyn posts “Library 2.0: How do you share?” The whole 2.0 thing in general seems to be about using the hive mind and the affordances of technology to synthesize newer, better and more useful systems that then become available for everyone. And Michael Casey posts Library 2.0 is not about Technology For me, Library 2.0 is not about technology. Library 2.0 seeks to harvest good ideas from outside and use them to deliver improved and new services, often times in an effort to reach a new target population. […]

Bisson on Library 2.0

I just realized why the concepts of Library 2.0 resonate so with me. I knew it all along, but these insightful words at MaisonBisson (a red hot blog!) spell it out: Library 2.0 isn’t about software, it’s about libraries. It’s about the evolution of all of our services to meet the needs of our users. And this: We have two choices. We can continue to operate by the old rules and hope that we find wealthy patrons to support us as symbols of the wealth and refinement of our communities. But, if we look hard, I think we’ll find that […]