Exploration No. 1

OK, OK, it's been months since I initially set up this blog and haven't posted since. Yes, I am a procrastinator!

My first thought about the video ("The Machine is Us/ing/Us) - we need more bandwidth if we're really serious about embracing Web2.0! This simple 4:34 clip took about 4X that amount of time to fully load into my pc. Once I was finally able to watch it it hough, I thought it was an effective way of getting across the idea that web2.0 technologies are linking people ( "using the machine" and not the other way around) and enabling them to share, trade and collaborate. Wesch's idea that we "need to rethink copyright, authorship, identity, ethics, aesthetics, privacy, commerce" seemed to me to be dead on. Gotta say he lost me though we he said we also need to rethink "love, family, ourselves" - seems a bit hyperbolic, no?

So where do librarians stand in all of this? Some thought-provoking ideas in Michael Stephen's article. His contention is that future libraries will be guided by how their users "access, consume and create content". We need to be fluent in the ways they will be doing this and be able to act as tour guides to all the content available to them.