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I searched Learning 2.0 and was not initially impressed by the results, but that changed... Some background about my personal feeling on blogs is necessary, and please withhold judgment.
I'm not 100% sold on the concept of "everyone a blogger" -- but I tend to be overly skeptical and cynical. At times, blogging seems purely faddish. To "blog" may be good ( or more appropriately "useful") but why do I want to read a lot of stranger's journals? Is it not sometimes the equivalent of listening to radio talk shows? Yes there are many opinions but I don't need to hear them all expressed umpteen different ways. The very fact that anyone can create a blog means there is just that much more stuff floating out in the ether. But how much is meaningful and how much is really dross? Not that there is anything inherently wrong with dross--I've created/penned/typed a lot of it myself. I just didn't put it out for public consumption or think it significant because it could available online....Gosh I'm a curmudgeon......But I've reformed. Perhaps the information on blogs is best valued for its currency and immediacy. So...
On the other hand, blogging is a terrific venue for sharing information around common themes, and in searching "libraries" I found a number of quality library created blogs that I would visit again for facts, informed opinion and analysis of issues, about library 2.0 applications . Hmm, that sounds almost like an online community, and isn't that a significant part of what 2.0 is really all about?
I did find it interesting how some merchants have set up blogs as storefronts through which they are selling merchandise. Their sites are mini Amazon.coms complete with "add to cart" icons and so forth.
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