Week 1: Here we go again!

I just had some fun reading over some of my posts from the first round of web 2.0. It's interesting seeing how fast things have changed in the web world since then. E-books are now taking a fair share of the market (overseas at least ... still waiting here). AOL announced last week they are either going to sell or shut down Bebo entirely.

Blogging is still a big part of the web, but what has really taken off since 2008 is the whole micro-blogging thing: blogs made up of one sentence updates, like twitter or a facebook status. I guess that says something about the modern attention span. I suppose longer blog posts require some skill on the part of the writer to maintain people's interest, where as micro blogging is more accessible. Even if you've just learnt to string two words together, you can still tweet.

A Manukau Libraries public blog would be a great idea, I think. I envision it as being something updated once a week from different locations around the organization. So one week we'd have a post from cataloging, and the next from Mangere Bridge library, for example. It would work like a Captain's logbook ... a record of our thoughts and feelings and interesting observations. What I think would not work would be some kind of PR or marketing blog which is all about advertising our greatness to customers with no personal element behind it. The most successful blogs tend to be the most opinionated ones.