None of the search tools helped me much, but Topix seemed the most productive. I was surprised to see that even blogs seem to have become a vehicle for spam. I do better picking up links from other reading. And of course Nicole alerts me to anything she finds. So, my best blog finding tool is definitely Municipal Reference!
Hans on Experience was a hoot, especially the Dutch version. OK!
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
RSS = Really Saturated with Subscriptions
I never have time to actually go to Bloglines and read what's come in. The technology is great but the human is still typing on a wooden keyboard! Maybe when I retire, I'll have time to keep up? I would like to have the time to create a blog that was a diary of the local outdoors, e.g. record when the birds migrate and the plants bloom.
For libraries, I see more value in wikis than blogs. The chronological aspect of blogs seems to me to demand more than just "here's what I thought about today." But for most blogs, the date of the entry isn't all that meaningful. It makes sense to me to use a blog for an events calendar because that's chronological. To use blogging for a book discussion keeps comments sequential, but I'm not sure how important that is. A 2.0 catalog would not be sequential, but wholistic. In essence, all 2.0 technologies are conversations and the ones that are not sequential seem to me to build more more interesting outcomes.
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For libraries, I see more value in wikis than blogs. The chronological aspect of blogs seems to me to demand more than just "here's what I thought about today." But for most blogs, the date of the entry isn't all that meaningful. It makes sense to me to use a blog for an events calendar because that's chronological. To use blogging for a book discussion keeps comments sequential, but I'm not sure how important that is. A 2.0 catalog would not be sequential, but wholistic. In essence, all 2.0 technologies are conversations and the ones that are not sequential seem to me to build more more interesting outcomes.
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Better with Use
I really like the O’Reilly quote, “software that gets better the more people use it.” Clearly this can apply to libraries as well, if we let library users participate in helping the organism grow. (A library is a growing organism, according to Ranganathan.) When we weed based on circulation, that is unconsious user participation. I hope to see library catalogs to which users can consciously contribute their tags, reviews and lists.
An interesting aspect of O'Reilly's observation is that it violates entropy. I know of one SF novel that explores the reversal of entropy - David Brin’s The Practice Effect. In that universe, knives get sharper with use.
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An interesting aspect of O'Reilly's observation is that it violates entropy. I know of one SF novel that explores the reversal of entropy - David Brin’s The Practice Effect. In that universe, knives get sharper with use.
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7 habits from PLCMC
We were advised to contemplate which habits were easy and which hard for us. I find "Beginning with the End in Mind" impossible when it comes to Web/library 2.0. After all, who knows where this will end? At the risk of uttering a cliche, it's the journey, not the destination that matters. So, I have no end in mind for this blog - I'm just playing. And lo, playing is the final1/2 habit. So, there we are. OK?
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