For shelving : Web 2.0
This is so true:
Information professionals have been throwing out the phrase Web 2.0 for the past several years; many believe that the next phase of the Internet is the idea of collaborating and sharing with other users.
Social networking and Wikis are both examples of this. While some librarians have taken this coined term and presented it as the next revolution in the development of the Internet, others, such as the godfather of the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee, wisely called this new revolution no revolution at all, since the technology has always been there.
What is Web 2.0, really? A joke. The same general ploy that greeting card companies use to make up holidays also applies to people who try to present Web 2.0 as something new. Web 2.0 is a coined term used to get people excited at lectures, but is something that really means nothing because the term has no set of standards and is defined differently depending on who you ask. In all actuality, the term is most commonly used to refer to technologies that have been around since the early 1990s. Social networking sites like classmates.com began in 1995; that same year c2.com became the first site to employ the use of Wikis; and sites like Amazon have allowed users to post reviews of products almost from the beginning.
There's nothing new about the technologies. What's new is that people are finally using the Internet and learning how to use the technologies that have been around since the beginning.
From Quiet Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian by Scott Douglas (p. 210)
Information professionals have been throwing out the phrase Web 2.0 for the past several years; many believe that the next phase of the Internet is the idea of collaborating and sharing with other users.
Social networking and Wikis are both examples of this. While some librarians have taken this coined term and presented it as the next revolution in the development of the Internet, others, such as the godfather of the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee, wisely called this new revolution no revolution at all, since the technology has always been there.
What is Web 2.0, really? A joke. The same general ploy that greeting card companies use to make up holidays also applies to people who try to present Web 2.0 as something new. Web 2.0 is a coined term used to get people excited at lectures, but is something that really means nothing because the term has no set of standards and is defined differently depending on who you ask. In all actuality, the term is most commonly used to refer to technologies that have been around since the early 1990s. Social networking sites like classmates.com began in 1995; that same year c2.com became the first site to employ the use of Wikis; and sites like Amazon have allowed users to post reviews of products almost from the beginning.
There's nothing new about the technologies. What's new is that people are finally using the Internet and learning how to use the technologies that have been around since the beginning.
From Quiet Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian by Scott Douglas (p. 210)