Week 9, Thing 23

I'm done with the "Eastern Shore Regional Library's 23 Things". This course has been quite a journey for me. I started from a position of not knowing anything about Web 2.0 technologies (except YouTube) to having set up a blog with all the wonderful gizmos I've learned about. Much of this like Flickr is fascinating and now takes a lot of my time.

Where is this all going? It's still hard to say. We are witnessing an evolutionary process that won't leave any fossil record and will someday be looked on as a means of communication that was created fully formed. (Won't that lead to an interesting debate?) For all its good and useful applications, Web 2.0 shouldn't lead any of us on a stampede to jettison the traditional written word. This should be a win/win process with old technologies merging with the new. I don't see today's books as the 8 track tapes of the future.