blogs for innovation
Check out the post on Life as I know it…it is a round up of the latest blogosphere talk about OPAC’s.
Wow, all that from the blogosphere in the last couple of months, such a plethora of information.
Blogs are so cutting edge compared to journals…by the time this stuff gets into journals the future OPAC’s will already be up and running.
Without the immediacy of blogs things would be much slower, blogs allow anyone to publish thoughts, people find your blog in an aggregated list or a collective group or are recommended your blog or come across a post in a search result, etc…reading your posts gets them thinking, and they publish a post, and so on.
Then someone comes along like Jennifer and consolidates it all…other ways are a blog engine search or tag or a social bookmarks tag.
Anyway the point is that blogs allow thoughts, ideas and the resulting discussions to move so much faster, and since more minds are connected there is more chance we are going to influence each other to think of things we would have never thought of…we created and use this technology that has spurred a cultural activity that can generate news and discussion instantly by anyone who would like to participate.
It’s not to say the result of this easy participation, immediacy of news and decentralised discussion may not be to the detriment sometime, after all news is news.
Whether blogs are considered authoritative or not, they are certainly having impact.
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What’s an “OPAC”?
Comment by Dennis D. McDonald — July 6, 2006 @ 2:29 pm
Dennis,
An OPAC is a Online Public Access Catalog…basically a library catalogue
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPAC
Comment by Johnt — July 7, 2006 @ 2:49 am