30 means "that's all" in journalism

Were there any take-aways or unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised you? I did not realize how much signing-up there would be and I find this the most off-putting aspect of Web 2.0. I really hope for a shift to more seamless embedding, with less joining and accounts.
The trend from asynchronous to activities that require people to be on at the same time distresses me. I always thought that the great virtue of the Internet was that it didn’t matter what time it was somewhere else or whether the other person used his computer on a different schedule. I see 2.0 as getting too time-bound (as well as too time consumptive), and yet something as simple as stating the length of a podcast is neglected.
And we are still ignoring the shortening lifespan of technology. We are far too focused on details that will change, rather than on creating a process of adaptation/adoption that can keep up.
Too many 2.0 services push a superficial fear of html which dis-empowers users, but html exists to create that seamlessness and put content creation in everyone's grasp.
I want to learn more about tag clouds - I think they could be as transforming as keyword searching has been for libraries. Tag clouds have potential as a knowledge management tool.
I am imagining a library that gets better the more its customers consciously participate in its development. We need to collaborate with our public and channel their impulse to share. Reader advice is particularly suited to social networks. "Collective wisdom" is really self-correcting wisdom, but wiki manners for correcting need to be explicitly stated. What gets appropriate participants to self-select? Would it help us to think of our customers as online volunteers? We need to recruit & trust our self-correcting collective and we need structures that do this automatically 24/7.
Wise organizations will consciously create a self image in the networks, as they have in architecture. However, while we need to be reachable through each person's preferred communication channel, this is not the same as trying to create separate self-images in each channel. For one thing, fresh is more appealing than polished. And trying to be cool is pathetic. Moreover, cool moves on constantly, especially when corporate and middle-aged presences arrive. I believe preferred communication channels are a reflection of learning styles, not just generations.
The public may finally be ready to recognize the bias inherent in all human records, not just online or collaborative, and acknowledge that critical thinking is a vital skill, not a threat.

What could we do differently to improve upon this program’s format or concept? Definitely need to recalculate the necessary time for learning. I would say each thing took me between one and 3 hours, depending on how involving I found it. Smaller bites than 30 might encourage more people to participate. I know we don’t want to spend MP3s on less than a large effort, but the SRP has shown the need for little incentives along the way. Also, possibly some way of verifying that the participant understood the thing. I know I did not understand pods for the longest time. Maybe that’s just me, but sometimes one can do stuff by rote and still not “get it.”

If we offered another discovery program like this in the future, would you again chose to participate? YES! I really like self-paced experiential learning, especially with hand-holding available so my anxiety doesn’t get loose and run around shrieking. Thank you Cindy for creating this! And thank you Diane for your repeated encouragement. Now I have to figure out what to do with an MP3. (I really did this for the learning, not the reward.)