Well, the whole Library 2.0 thing has finally made its way onto the JESSE library education listserv in the form of a question posed thus:
“There has been considerable under-the-table discussion about Library 2.0 and Web 2.0 tools, capabilities, philosophies, and approaches to information organization and retrieval. Read more…
on TechRepublic
Funny to recall that back then we really enjoyed having those dinosaurs in the house…. Don’t laugh, someday you and yours are just as likely to end up as jetsam (or Jetsons?) from the past in someone’s fantasy on Oort Cloud.
Want to own a string of pseudo-randomly-generated integers, just like the movie industry claims that it does? Here’s your opportunity, at Freedom to Tinker.
Who knows: maybe someday you’ll be able to sell these in Ebay or sue somebody for using them. (Or even use them yourself to do some math.) Get yours now!
This is such a great reading, but is it something that my future students in LIS 5433 would “get”?
On the other hand, do I really “get” it all either? Does it stop me from wanting to get the entire book from which this been excerpted? Not at all! You go, Bonnie Nardi!
I worked at Cornell University Press for some years while finishing my dissertation, so it’s always nice to find one of their books getting some well-deserved publicity (this time from The New Yorker).
A useful reminder that our theories about technology shouldn’t start and end with the latest plug-in….
