[Web4lib] One Web Day

[Mark A. Bard]

Hey All,

The organizers of OneWebDay are especially interested in working with
libraries this year.  This is a perfect opportunity for libraries of all
types to highlight their role within communities in the digital age.  If
you are organizing a OneWebDay event, they would like to hear from you
via email at libraryevents at onewebday.org.

Cheers,
Mark

Mark Bard
Information Technology Policy Specialist
ALA Office for Information Technology Policy



-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Leo Robert Klein
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 11:05 AM
To: Richard Wiggins
Cc: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] One Web Day

You're right, if someone hasn't heard about the web by now, there's
little a OneWebDay can do about it.  That's not the idea.

As I mentioned in an earlier quote:

"The essence of OneWebDay is to create a global constituency that thinks
of itself as responsible for the future of the internet, so that when
negative things happen (censorship, restricted access, heavy-handed law
enforcement control) people will act."  http://www.onewebday.org/?p=228

Everyone is free to interpret the day as they wish.  I admit it's pretty
open ended.

But as our dependence on the Web, as you point out, becomes increasingly
  important, so then do issues of access/bandwidth and ownership of the
pipes.

I'm just not sure how successful a 'OneNetNeutralityDay' or a
'OneStopFilteringInLibrariesDay' would be.

So the idea is to take a positive approach to the medium.

Reason to celebrate, I say.

LEO

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Richard Wiggins wrote:
> Not to rain on the parade, but isn't the Web (and the Internet, which 
> it is distinct from, though not treated as such popularly) now a part 
> of the fabric of life?  It's used for good and for ill by millions if 
> not billions worldwide.
> 
> To me, in the year 2007, this is almost as quaint as having "One Cell 
> Phone Day" or "One Fax Machine Day."  The Web, at least for anyone who

> can read this message, is factored into daily life.
> 
> It is 2007.  The Web revolution began in 1993.  (TimBL claims earlier 
> but I date it to the arrival of practical browsers and servers from 
> NCSA, and images in HTML.) Anyone entering college at age 18 today 
> literally grew up with the Web.
> 
> The Web is too much a part of our lives in 2007 for a 1996 "Cool Site 
> of the Day" mentality. The Web is us. ("We are the Web"?)  If I were 
> to participate in a "Day" I'd rather it be a cause -- support your 
> local library, rising cost of e-journals, climate change, poverty, 
> disease, peace, even preserving digital legacy. The Web causes many 
> things to be possible, but it isn't itself a cause.
> 
> /rich

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