Web 2.0

Web 2.0 is a concept more than a technology. Web 2.0 encompasses a whole realm of what is being referred to as a second generation world wide web, which includes new found uses for social technology including: social-networking sites, blogs, podcasts, ppc marketing, wikis, tagging, RSS syndication, web-based communities, hosted services and user-generated content . These new ideas and techniques encourage user interaction, communication, and collaboration.

My opinion of the Web 2.0 concept is overall favorable. For fun, research, school or work Web 2.0 is a miracle. But I wonder where all the open information will end. Will there be a day in the future when we are all web-cam models with no privacy? Or will lawmakers step in at some point and find a way to regulate intellectual property? We should not lose our ability to choose how much of ourselves we give away. If technology ceases to be an option or opportunity and becomes automatic then the the benefit we are seeing now also ceases to be of use.

Library 2.0 is also not well defined but like Web 2.0 it is a collection of interactive possibilities that would/could bring linbraries into the digital age.