What Librarians Can Learn From The Gates
February 20th, 2005While The Gates is sweeping the nation, I couldn’t help but notice the community interaction inherent in the weblog put together by Andy Carvin. He’s made it into an open weblog, inviting anybody to post via e-mail or phone (via audioblogger). How exciting!
One thing to take from this experience is that there can be some boundaries in open weblogging systems. For example, he’s asked readers to cc a separate e-mail address, so if there are any non-Gates stuff posted, it can be taken down. This is one of those efforts that really fires me up for big library conferences. The opportunities for open knowledge is endless at these events. There will be alot of blogging going on at Computers in Libraries this year and I will hopefully be experimenting with more audioblogging and working with others on some podcasting (I think). Maybe there should also be an “open” weblog for anyone to post pictures, blog their comments, record an audio post? I’d love to see how that would turn out. Anyone want to take the reigns on that wild horse and run with it?