http://www.paulhagon.com/blog/2009/05/29/how-libraries-can-learn-from-twitter/ Linking my thinking with computer technology Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:33:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.paulhagon.com/blog/2009/05/29/how-libraries-can-learn-from-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-715 Mal Booth Fri, 29 May 2009 04:54:42 +0000 http://www.paulhagon.com/?p=240#comment-715 Hahahahaha! Loved that last statement of yours. Hahahahaha! Loved that last statement of yours.

]]> http://www.paulhagon.com/blog/2009/05/29/how-libraries-can-learn-from-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-714 Paul Hagon Fri, 29 May 2009 04:44:44 +0000 http://www.paulhagon.com/?p=240#comment-714 Definitely. Control is seen as power. Control is an outdated concept. Control is now fear. Definitely. Control is seen as power. Control is an outdated concept. Control is now fear.

]]> http://www.paulhagon.com/blog/2009/05/29/how-libraries-can-learn-from-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-713 Mal Booth Fri, 29 May 2009 04:27:46 +0000 http://www.paulhagon.com/?p=240#comment-713 Thanks Paulie, this is just in time for me. And one difference is that this year I first saw anything about your post on Twitter. Last year it would have been Google Reader and the year before word of mouth I suppose, maybe on a Monday night? I agree that libraries have a lot to learn from both Twitter and Flickr - even the basic web interfaces they offer - and the growing number of APIs we are now seeing, particularly to do with Twitter. The APIs provide personalised, tailored, bespoke add-ons and changes that people want. Nobody is really controlling much of that, but libraries don't really like operating in a space that isn't controlled. So maybe in that way we are a bit like what Rev Dan Catt said about Flickr: you can get more stuff done working outside the library (assuming the data is open!) than inside it? Thanks Paulie, this is just in time for me. And one difference is that this year I first saw anything about your post on Twitter. Last year it would have been Google Reader and the year before word of mouth I suppose, maybe on a Monday night?
I agree that libraries have a lot to learn from both Twitter and Flickr – even the basic web interfaces they offer – and the growing number of APIs we are now seeing, particularly to do with Twitter. The APIs provide personalised, tailored, bespoke add-ons and changes that people want. Nobody is really controlling much of that, but libraries don’t really like operating in a space that isn’t controlled. So maybe in that way we are a bit like what Rev Dan Catt said about Flickr: you can get more stuff done working outside the library (assuming the data is open!) than inside it?

]]>