You may be sick of hearing about Web 2.0, and you may have already seen this feature mentioned elsewhere, but for those who haven’t, take a look at The Guardian’s Web 2.0 issue.
Interviews with the creators of Bebo, Blogger, Craigslist, Del.icio.us, Digg, Feed Burner, Flickr, Last.fm, Netvibes, Technorati, Wikipedia, WordPress, and Writely.
Each person was asked: “What is Web 2.0?” I particularly liked the response given by Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield (the Flickr creators):
Web 2.0 is like a return to the web’s roots. When everyone first got to be online, the thing that was really magical about it was that you could suddenly have these conversations with Danish Borghese scholars in the middle of the night because they happened to be online. What’s changed is expanding on that theme of communication and personal publishing and making it available to millions of people who don’t have technical skills.
This blog is a testimony to that last statement: methods of online communication and personal publishing are now available to people who don’t necessarily have technical skills. When I started I had very little few skills and am enjoying learning as I go! (My writing skills on the other hand are taking longer to hone 
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November 7, 2006 at 12:57
Karen Coombs’ article “Planning for now and then” argues that every library should have it 2.0 degree by 2010.
I was talking to a colleague in Technology Services where I work recently about the forms that my library uses within its website. He commented that the Library was the main section on campus that had the most interactive part of the University’s website.
I said “that’s the nature of our business”. And it is not just on our websites, interpersonal interactions are critical to library service delivery. Web 2.0 is a natural development for libraries. A big challenge is trying to deal with so many possibilities and the competition for resources to chase after them.