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Library 2.0 Theory: Web 2.0 and Its Implications for Libraries - 0 views

  • This article posits a definition and theory for "Library 2.0". It suggests that recent thinking describing the changing Web as "Web 2.0" will have substantial implications for libraries, and recognizes that while these implications keep very close to the history and mission of libraries, they still necessitate a new paradigm for librarianship. The paper applies the theory and definition to the practice of librarianship, specifically addressing how Web 2.0 technologies such as synchronous messaging and streaming media, blogs, wikis, social networks, tagging, RSS feeds, and mashups might intimate changes in how libraries provide access to their collections and user support for that access.
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Towards a Theory of Information: Information: Mystical Fluid or a Subject for Scientifi... - 0 views

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    Access to the full-text PDF article from the British Computer Society.
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The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond - 0 views

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    Raymond's The Cathedral and the Bazaar in First Monday:  "I anatomize a successful open-source project, fetchmail, that was run as a deliberate test of some surprising theories about software engineering suggested by the history of Linux. I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the "cathedral" model of most of the commercial world versus the "bazaar" model of the Linux world. I show that these models derive from opposing assumptions about the nature of the software-debugging task. I then make a sustained argument from the Linux experience for the proposition that "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow", suggest productive analogies with other self-correcting systems of selfish agents, and conclude with some exploration of the implications of this insight for the future of software."
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theorywatch - 0 views

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    Doc Martens's blog
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Thinkery - 0 views

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    Blog from "a Rhetoric Ph.D. Candidate in the University of Minnesota Department of Writing Studies. For the past five years or so, I've been studying various ways networked texts intersect with intellectual property law and theory. Now, I'm working on a dissertation about authorship and ownership in the 1728 Chambers's Cyclopaedia and the English-language Wikipedia."
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Desperately seeking the consumer: Personalized search engines and the commercial exploi... - 0 views

  • With reference to surveillance studies theory, this paper critically assesses the role of personalized search engines as a mediator between advertisers and users. It first sketches the economic and technical background of online marketing and personalized searches. Then, it engages in an in–depth discussion of two examples of personalized search engines with regard to the data collection process used and the way in which this data is used for advertising purposes. The discussion shows that users’ information needs, as well as their personal data, are subject to a growing pressure in terms of commercial exploitation. Essentially, search engines now fulfill the task of translating information needs into consumption needs.
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My not-so-triumphant return to the blogosphere - Student Affairs - Blog on Library Journal - 0 views

  • For those of you unfamiliar with current on-line LIS education, most classes have a section devoted to on-line "discussion." The theory is that you are supposed to discuss, via posts, topics pertinent to the material covered in class. In reality, the boards just turn into a mass of people trying to say the smartest sounding, most cleaver thing they can possibly think of. I've rarely seen any "discussion" taking place on these boards
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    Thirteen 2.0 activities for librarians.
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