[Web4lib] Next new thing?

[D.H. Mattison]

July 15, 2005

My suggestion is to pay attention to the literature, especially from the
folks I write for at Information Today (http://www.infotoday.com) who have
inside sources and get all kinds of PR buzz from the information industry.
Searcher magazine under Barbara Quint seems to have a pretty good track
record at covering trends that turn into information commodities. Wikis are
a decade-old technology this year, so hardly new in terms of age, yet newish
to information knowledgists. I concur with the respondent who put her
metaphoric money on collaborative tools. Wikis are just one kind of
collaborative Web-based system with an emphasis on ease of use and
simplicity.

I would also pay attention to the e-learning field as one of the next new
things because it's an area librarians should certainly be familiar with and
participating in.

David Mattison
Victoria, BC, Canada
dmattison at shaw.ca
Tiki Wiki Hut: http://www.davidmattison.ca/tiki
Ten Thousand Year Blog: http://www.davidmattison.ca/wordpress

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First we had blogging, and then podcasting.

What's the next new up-and-coming thing along these lines?

Bernie Sloan
Senior Information Systems Consultant
Consortium of Academic & Research Libraries in Illinois
616 E. Green Street, Suite 213
Champaign, IL  61820-5752

Phone: (217) 333-4895
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E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu


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