I thought the interview with Stephen Abram was interesting mostly for his curious insight as to whether or not people would be able to find the time to complete the 23 things. He admitted to all the time he used on smoke breaks (before he got cancer), and said that if people were as addicted to learning the new technologies, they wouldn't have any trouble finding 15 minutes a day to do so.
I thought John Blyberg's piece on Library 2.0 was a nice contrast to the lengthy O'Reilly read on Web 2.0. I found myself agreeing with most of what Blyberg said about the future of libraries and what patrons/users will demand from their libraries. I did feel that he was off when he made the argument that new patrons would be increasingly from the younger segment of society. "Is “they” the dwindling elderly population, the soon-to-retire baby-boomers? " I'm pretty sure that the most rapidly growing segment of society ARE the elderly and the baby-boomers! Plus, they are the ones with money, commitment, and time to get what they want.
However, being "pretty sure" that something is true does not make it so. And in the back of my mind I heard my husband saying "I need a citation for that!" So I harnessed the great brain of the internet to find the article I vaguely remembered reading that supported my statement. Of course, my search came up empty, as is so often the case. This served to remind me that even the greatest tool is useless if you don't know how to wield it correctly. My information is out there somewhere, floating in the ether, and I just have to come up with the proper query...sigh...
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