Thing 2 . 0

Web 2.0, Library 2.0 (L2?), and now Thing 2.0. I might as well go through a personal self-improvement program and change my name to OTTO 2.0 to keep up with the times :) After reading John Blyberg's blog post, I can understand the confusion.

Web 2.0, in my understanding, is a term for making the Web more interactive. The original Web was more of an informative tool that went one way, from source to surfer. Web 2.0 gets information back to the source. In essence, we all become contributors to the Web with Web 2.0.

Library 2.0 (L2?), in my opinion, tries to make use of Web 2.0 tools in the library. I agree with some that say libraries have had elements of 2.0 in the past. Although this is true to some extent, I think the Web has taken it to new levels, in particular with new programs like blogs, social bookmarking tools like Delicious, etc. Nevertheless, I feel Library 2.0 is only one part of the whole library spectrum.

As for OTTO 2.0, maybe I should engage in more Web 2.0 tools :)

Thing 1: Blogs Reloaded...

Okay, my first attempt was at creating this blog was insufficient. I only now realized I'm officially supposed to label it "Thing 1." So, since I fell of the bike the first time, I'm giving it another spin.

I created a blog before, to join the Millhopper staff blog, but never got much further than that. It seems nice, I just haven't had the time or incentive to continue. So here I go. What did I learn? I learned there's a lot about blogs I have yet to learn. I've seen some colleagues with really fancy blogs. I haven't gotten there yet. I visited a few of my other colleagues and read their interesting posts. It'll take me a little longer to get more familiar with this though. I'm taking this as a work in progress...

Remembering my links...

In case I wanna search for blogs of interest in the future, I need to go to either...

http://blogsearch.google.com/ or
http://technorati.com/

Starting my 23 things...

Here we go, my first post.