http://mchabib.com/2006/06/14/on-democracy-trust-and-libraries/ On Librarianship and the Information Sciences Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:19:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://mchabib.com/2006/06/14/on-democracy-trust-and-libraries/#comment-19 Michael C. Habib Thu, 15 Jun 2006 22:39:00 +0000 http://mchabib.com/?p=45#comment-19 Wonderful. I am not sure if I have stated it directly in my blog yet, but I think of this conceptual move to a read/write web is what defines Web 2.0. It is what has turned traditional media upside down by challenging the idea of media as broadcast. The conversation enabled by the read/write web is the underlying force behind most of Web 2.0. Thanks for your comment. Wonderful. I am not sure if I have stated it directly in my blog yet, but I think of this conceptual move to a read/write web is what defines Web 2.0. It is what has turned traditional media upside down by challenging the idea of media as broadcast. The conversation enabled by the read/write web is the underlying force behind most of Web 2.0. Thanks for your comment. ]]> http://mchabib.com/2006/06/14/on-democracy-trust-and-libraries/#comment-18 Judy O'Connell Thu, 15 Jun 2006 06:47:00 +0000 http://mchabib.com/?p=45#comment-18 I think you have made some excellent connections here. Particularly where you demonstrate the conceptual move to read/write web.... "Traditionally, excluding our meeting rooms, we expected our patrons to use the knowledge they gained outside of the library. Eventually ideas would trickle back in through traditional media sources such as newspapers and books. The read/write web has sped this process up. Now it is possible for readers to feed their knowledge back into the system in real-time. Libraries have always been considered places of reading. Library 2.0 is a place of both reading and writing." I think you have made some excellent connections here. Particularly where you demonstrate the conceptual move to read/write web…. “Traditionally, excluding our meeting rooms, we expected our patrons to use the knowledge they gained outside of the library. Eventually ideas would trickle back in through traditional media sources such as newspapers and books. The read/write web has sped this process up. Now it is possible for readers to feed their knowledge back into the system in real-time. Libraries have always been considered places of reading. Library 2.0 is a place of both reading and writing.” ]]>