Trying to catch up on the 23 Things--have done some of the Things but haven't blogged about them yet. I read the articles and watched the videos on "Learning about Library 2.o" I found Tim O'Reilly's article to be the most informative. I found his description here to be helpful:
"Like many important concepts, Web 2.0 doesn't have a hard boundary, but rather, a gravitational core."
The article is four years old, but as my alter ego, the 1,047 year-old (we had a birthday last week) Scottish monk might remind us: The latest ain't always the greatest. He would also like to remind us that electronic storage is not stable and predicts someday we will be asking to borrow his quill and inkwell.
He's a bit of a humbug, that old monk.
In essence, it seems Web 2.0 should be used to help us share information with our colleagues and to help steer our students and patrons to better information sources. I guess we'll see how close we get to those goals by the time we're through with this experience.
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