Sandboxing

On the way to work this morning, I had an epiphanical episode about our Web 2.0 sandboxing. If we only restrict ourselves to the two blogs (23 Things and Learn M0re) then we will only know what was out there when the blogs were written. And we need to remember these were written quite some time ago! I can't help but feel that we need to approach the task in a way that will equip us with strategies to find information about new strategies/tools that crop up in the future. Rather, we should be focusing on strategies that help us find these nuggets of Web 2.0-y goodness. This way we will be much more able to cope with Web 3.0.

Web 2.0 Playing

At work, we have had some time set aside for playing with web 2.0 strategies. I went to the first session on Friday. Whilst it is fun to just have a play to see what different things can do - I experimented with avatars and flickr - I couldn't help but feel the blog we were using as a guide, see here, didn't seem to take the power of these strategies into account fully. Whilst it did mention the requirements for using each strategy - such as what systems were needed - so librarians could cater to their patrons needs, the site did not go into how patrons could better harness the power of these strategies for their own requirements.

For example, with flickr, it is a great site for finding source materials. Indeed, I have already used it for my 400-level Advanced Directing paper to provide provocations for rehearsals. I also use it to find creative commons photographs for Critic. With my interests in theatre in mind, it seems like a good website to explore its power for presenting a performance in pictures. Can flickr be used to create such a performance? Or, perhaps, there may be too strong a feeling that performance can still only be done by live, present people.