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The book I'm reading at the moment for prep for the library course seems to be focusing a lot on the impact of "web 2.0" and how because of this increased "user involvement" more is going to be expected out of the library "users". They give examples about myspace, youtube and wikis and how nowadays people are expecting to be able to contribute to a website, rather than just not being able to read it. I would like to call Bullshit.
I remember the internet from the days when it was a text adventure. I remember when everyone had a geocities account or their own webpage, there were discussion boards and comments pages and people were being creative and contributing to each others ideas all the time. I would say the difference between then and now is not the fact that "users" are now interested in creating thier own content, but rather people have gotten conned into joining "corporations" and all their creativity is being sucked into some large organisation, which is something that the people who write these types of books can see and take note. Instead of having a webpage now people will have their own "profile" on myspace, LJ or even (shudder) facebook. They seem to have forgotten that in the past we didn't need google to tell us where the other goths were, or what they were doing. Not to mention the fact that before there was the web there were BBS's.
Just because something has been incorporated into a company doesn't mean that it's a new idea. And deciding you need to change the strategy of an entire profession to fit in with what you see this new idea as being, seems a little silly.
I remember the internet from the days when it was a text adventure. I remember when everyone had a geocities account or their own webpage, there were discussion boards and comments pages and people were being creative and contributing to each others ideas all the time. I would say the difference between then and now is not the fact that "users" are now interested in creating thier own content, but rather people have gotten conned into joining "corporations" and all their creativity is being sucked into some large organisation, which is something that the people who write these types of books can see and take note. Instead of having a webpage now people will have their own "profile" on myspace, LJ or even (shudder) facebook. They seem to have forgotten that in the past we didn't need google to tell us where the other goths were, or what they were doing. Not to mention the fact that before there was the web there were BBS's.
Just because something has been incorporated into a company doesn't mean that it's a new idea. And deciding you need to change the strategy of an entire profession to fit in with what you see this new idea as being, seems a little silly.