Gia’s Weblog

I did a brief tour of some of the sites listed for the wildcard…some of them looked interesting. I got a kick out of DoMyStuff.com, although to be honest there wasn’t much stuff in my area to do for people. It would be an awesome site if more people used it. I’ve already signed up for 43things.com, I love that you can set goals for yourself and connect with people who have similar goals. To be honest, I’ve totally burnt out on social networking sites. I just don’t have much to say anymore that anyone would find interesting. I tried doing Twitter, but again I don’t do much besides go to work and then go home. I’m sure my on-line followers would love to hear about my grocery store outings, but alas. I have to admit I get a huge kick out of Craigslist (still), Yelp, and Digg. I have a list of blogs a mile long that I read nearly everyday. If I didn’t have Gawker or the Superficial to amuse me at the end of a day I don’t know what I’d do.

But I guess this really doesn’t answer how this web 2.0 stuff would be effective for WORK. Sure I know several dozen ways to kill and waste time on the Interwebs, but how would I put it to practical use? I think some of the social bookmarking websites would be great for Youth Services librarians–we could pass around storytime ideas, booklists, or online games for kids who come into the library. If we had bibliographies we could share with remote patrons that might be pretty helpful.

I certainly don’t think that Library 2.0 is a passing fad, but I do think it might be a while before we really see what it can do. Maybe in 5 or 10 years we’ll see a big movement in this direction but right now I think we’re really just looking at the tip of the 2.0 iceberg.