I am so excited after reading all that inspiring stuff. I am particularly encouraged to see that an anthropologist has weighed into the discussion. After all, we are certainly not in this as "Libraries" in our little cocoons, but part of the wider picture of trying to get a fix on human evolution. I feel much more comfortable thinking about Web.2.0, 3.0 and 4.0 in the broader context. Library issues per se are NOT important, only insofar as they contribute to man's greater understanding of himself.
On a more mundane level, having been in the retail/wholesale business for many years, it is good to see libraries beginning to embrace what the manufacturing/sales people have known for years, ie. in our brave new world, JUST IN TIME is where it is at, not JUST IN CASE.
AND... finally ... it makes me cross on a daily basis when school & tertiary students are looking for references and are told they may not use references from the web. Why on earth not? In which time warp is the teacher/lecturer stuck?
There is sadly no room in this discussion for poodles. Poodles are not really interested in Web 2.0 except for the Flickr pictures.
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