It’s an aside to Kathryn Greenhill’s larger point, that all this 2.0 stuff is about a shifting power to the user, but she places L2 somewhere on Ghandi’s continuum of change between ridicule and fight.
The photo above (original by Monster) is in support of Greenhill’s larger point: control is shifting. Trains were once seen as [...]

Posted September 12, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy. Tags: change, competition, control, l2, lib20, libraries, library 2.0, locus of control, railroads vs. automobiles. 6 Comments.

Speaking Thursday at the Boston Library Consortium’s annual meeting in the beautiful Boston Public Library, my focus was on the status of our library systems and the importance of remixability.
My blog post on remixability probably covers the material best, but my slides are online as both an animated QuickTime and PDF.
BPL, BLC, boston library consortium, [...]

Posted April 17, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: BLC, boston library consortium, boston public library, BPL, l2, lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, library systems, presentation, remixability. 2 Comments.

I was honored to join the conversation yesterday for the latest Talis Library 2.0 Gang podcast, this one on folksonomies and tags. The MP3 is already posted and, as usual, it makes me wonder if I really sound like that. Still, listen to the other participants, they had some great things to say and made [...]

Posted July 27, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: folksonomies, folksonomy, interview, l2, lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, library catalogs, library systems, opacs, podcast, tagging, tags, talis, talking with talis. 6 Comments.