ABD Inforum 2007 new technologies

New Technologies

David TebbuttInformation World Review contributor

tebbo.comiwr.co.uk

New technologies I’ll mention

What’s happening?

Broadband penetration Q306

http://www.ectaportal.com/en/upload/File/Broadband%20Scorecards/Q306/FINALBBScQ306.xls

There’s no debate

There’s no escape

Our world

‘Blue marble’ courtesy ofNASA’s Earth Observatory

A digital infosphere?

‘Blue marble’ courtesy ofNASA’s Earth Observatory

We like to show off

We have conversations

Second Life - library

The Whitehorn Memorial Library in Caledon Victoria City

Second Life - party

We label things

Tag cloud

‘environment’ tag and its aliases used 5,703 times by 1,458 users

Books most often tagged ‘environment’...

Last ten books tagged environment...

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We vote for and against

By Liz Westhttp://www.flickr.com/people/calliope/

La Blogopole

http://www.rtgi.fr/http://www.blogopole.fr/

We leave trails

We like to be alerted

We collaborate

© Ian Adamshttp://www.ianadamsphotography.com/

We share access

By Mel & John Kotshttp://www.flickr.com/people/melanieandjohn/

An early mashup

A programme for you?

Web 2.0Library 2.0WikisOnline Applications & ToolsPodcasts, Video & Downloadable audioNetLibrary

BlogsPhotos & ImagesRSS & NewsreadersLibraryThingSearchTagging & Folksonomies

http://plcmclearning.blogspot.com/