Perhaps I'm an overachiever. I was inspired to create the video below by David Lee King's solicitation of further comment on his recent Library 2.0 post.
Interestingly, David Lee King added another post this afternoon that serves as a good frame for the above video, laying out his thoughts on whether "Library 2.0" is "techie" or not. I think that it is not techie, for all the reasons he outlined in his post. The "stuff" that we're doing on the web now used to be very techie, but the evolution of the web has lowered the price of entry when it comes to tech skills. Think about the early tools for online content creation and how much easier it is to do these things now:
personal web pages
Then: geocities.com, fortunecity, angelfire
Now: blogger, wordpress
photo editing and sharing
Then: photoshop, html (or ftp and usenet!)
Now: flickr, photobucket, picasa
video creation and sharing
Then: RealServer
Now: YouTube, blip.tv
connecting with like minds
Then: listservs, usenet
Now: Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Meebo Rooms
Like I said in my first video post, Library 2.0 is more than the sum of its technology and customer mindset parts. I tried to create a graphic in response to the "spectrum" debate that would illustrate the evolution that I think librarians undergo and ended up with another video. A still image just wasn't good enough to demonstrate the organic nature of the process.
Apologies for the size of this video. Using the standard streaming format meant that the text in the slide was pretty unreadable. The full-frame video is 280MB! and takes a while to download. For me, at home on DSL and a wireless laptop, the download seemed to just outpace the playing speed. Still learning, here...
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