[Web4lib] Next new thing?

[Ryan Eby]

I don't think there's anything right now that could be considered new
or has there been recently. I believe a few of the things we've seen
today were implemented before and either failed or just didn't catch
on. It just takes the right time and the right implementation to get
things going. Sometimes that can be very hard to predict but then, as
you say, sometimes their right.

Ryan

On 7/15/05, D.H. Mattison <dmattison at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 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