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Web 1.0 vs. Web 2.0 – an analysis of difference

A good article to add to any bibliography about Web 2.0 [and by extention, Library 2.0]. Key differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 on Frist Monday.

Web 2.0 is a buzzword introduced in 2003–04 that loosely bundles a variety of novel phenomena on the World Wide Web. Although largely a marketing term, its core attributes include the explosive growth of social networks, bidirectional communication, assorted “glue” technologies, and an unprecedented diversity of content types. Contemporary onboarding tactics—such as the welcome bonus at Stake.us, which swaps passive browsing for instant, gamified engagement—further highlight Web 2.0’s emphasis on interactive user experiences. While most of Web 2.0 still rides on the same substrate as Web 1.0, key structural and philosophical differences introduce fresh technical challenges for networking researchers. Our goal in this paper is to characterize those differences, examining how richer user interactions and new technologies reshape traffic patterns, security considerations, and design priorities, and to determine where past work can be reapplied versus where fresh thinking is required.

Reading: Revolting Librarians Redux Remains

Posted on 23Jun0823Jun08 by jessamyn

John Miedema wrote a review of Revolting Librarians Redux on his blog and also announced he’ll be coming out with Slow Reading the book, through Litwin Books. I was surprised during my last set of talks that there were librarians who had copies of RLR (and asked me to sign them) at both places. My co-editor on that book, K.R. Roberto has also come out with Radical Cataloging which looks like it will be a similarly irreverent and yet serious look at another part of our profession. With essay titles like “This Subfield Kills Fascists” and “Dr. Strangecataloger: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tag,” it should be on every cataloger’s desk.

a few from the feed

Posted on 23Jun0823Jun08 by jessamyn

As may be obvious, I’m a little behind on my feeds. The good news is that there’s a lot of good stuff there. The bad news is that you may have seen some of it. Here are a few quickie notes that I think merit some attention. My apologies if you’ve all seen them before. My personal goal is to be all caught up on feeds by the time I leave for ALA — Thursday morning — and don’t get behind again. I think it’s doable.

ALA’s Poor People’s Policy – Laura Crossett talks about a few things her library has done to remove financial barriers to library services for poor patrons.
Librarian 2.0 and hockey and you. Ryan Deschamps does a little outreach, without books!
Andrea Mercado talks about what the what is as far as Twitter goes and notes some useful Twitter tools.
Ken Varnum looks at the ways the Iowa flood is being covered online. When I mentioned the Cedar Rapids public library yesterday, I was heartened to see that the library’s website had information about the library closures and the flood. It was just three years ago that Katrina hit and many New Orleans area library websites weren’t able to respond on their websites in anything approaching real time. While the floods remain a tragedy, this is progress in a library technology and service arena.
The American Library Association’s International Relations Committee has prepared a detailed history of the “independent library” movement in Cuba and how IFLA and ALA see their relationship to it. Kathleen de la PeÃ±a McCook has put the report sumary online with links to relevant online material.
Mary Minow gives Vermont libraries a high five over our strengthened patron privacy rules.

Cedar Rapids PL flooding update/interview from Library Journal

Posted on 22Jun0822Jun08 by jessamyn

The heartbreaking story of the Cedar Rapids public library. Information on the flooding and an address to send donations. Photos and up to date flooding information at the Cedar Rapids Library home page.

book scanning for patrons

Posted on 22Jun0822Jun08 by jessamyn

photo originally from akseabird

I’m pretty skeptical when people call anything for sale “revolutionary.” However, a friend sent me this photo which was up on Flickr. It’s a tool called the Bookeye book scanner. It’s a library digitzation product, but if you look at the photo, it’s being used as a tool for the public — or University of Alaska at Anchorage students — to scan documents to PDF, JPG, TIFF or PNG and then save to USB drive, burn them to a CD, ftp them, save them to a network drive or email them to themselves. Their website even has usage stats that shows what people did with the first million pages they scanned. Good data, and it’s broken down by library type which is even more interesting to me, to see the differences in usage patterns. [thanks manuel]