“Web 2.0 Tools for Librarians: Description, Demonstration, Discussion, and Debate” MLA Plenary session
A quick wrap up for those who didn’t attend, forgot what really happened, or just need to think about cheeseburgers in a can…
Mark Funk introduces the Funky Bunch….in haikus and pig latin. Sometimes both! I don’t think that’s 2.0 but hey, people didn’t understand it, so I guess it could be! I also don’t understand the idea of a cheeseburgers in a can, so I’m calling that 2.0 as well.
The Rothman started us off with a 2.0 intro. He then told us there really was no such thing as “2.0″, so I have no idea what he continued to talk about. I definitely didn’t hear anything about cheeseburgers in a can.
Amanda wrestled control of the podium. Here she is sharing her knowledge and experience on blogs. She’s so sassy and fun! Yay!
Melissa knows what’s up. She talked about, um, delicious things. Like all her pictures! They were fantabulous! Very delicious. Or del.icio.us as she liked to write (maybe she earns airline points for every period she used in the presentation?).
Bart is like…a well oiled machine, or wait no! A jaguar. He knows his stuff. I don’t know if he would eat a cheeseburger in a can, but he could probably do some McGiver things with it. Which is another way to say 2.0. (See I couldn’t even catch him with my camera…very jaguar like!)
But then The Rothman had to take control of the session. We were forced to watch him at least 3 times bigger than real life!!! It was scary! Actually I think the cameraperson was in cahoots with him! No, just kidding, he was very talented and used his mad skilz to pan and zoom. The cameraperson, not David, of course. Geesh. David was using his skilz to answer questions from the audience.
So the rest of the awesome panel sat him down and shamed him for being so big and full of promise (not of cheeseburgers in a can though). The panel played nice the rest of the time…well except for that brief skirmish…oh and that fire… but that was just because someone’s glasses intensified the bright lights which were keeping the panelists warm for the buffet line (yum, yum!). And there wasn’t really a skirmish, I just wanted to use that word. And I did, twice!
At the end, everyone was all smiles, but we know what they plan to do… pretty much laid out their plan that whole morning, eh? Think you all are pretty sneaky, don’t you? Spreading your 2.0 glee, making masterful use of the tools being created and destoyed as I type, getting connected with users in new and beautiful ways. Trying to get us to follow in your foot steps are you? Well I may order items from your catalog, look at pictures of you cat on the interweb, and speak highly of you otherwise, but I don’t know if I can handle the pig-latin of 2.0!
These pictures don’t lie, the words merely serve to entertain.
Fun post, Brandi. I can’t wait to tell my extended family that I am “The” Rothman.
I feel the need to clarify, though: I absolutely did not say that “Web 2.0″ doesn’t exist. I said that it is a metaphor and a bit of Web industry jargon for a set of trends about the way people are using the Web.
I also said it wasn’t an especially good metaphor and that most jargon, when it leaves its native/originating community/industry, becomes easily misused and confusing.
Okay, I just *knew* you’d say that! Luckily everything else I wrote was so bogus, no one will believe anything anyway. Hopefully. Course if it is on the internet, it’s true, right? Hmmmm….
Hearing more about your family, I may have to remove that title from you.
All jokes aside, I completely agree with your comments on 2.0. I think that concept is spiraling out of control. It can be helpful to try and group like items together, but since there wasn’t an agreement on what 2.0 stood for, we are in this mess.
I knew you knew I’d say that.