Comments on: OCLC report on ‘Sharing, Privacy and Trust In Our Networked World’ http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/oclc-report-on-sharing-privacy-and-trust-in-our-networked-world/ Reflections on the Web and Web 2.0 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:47:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Me, Myself, I « UK Web Focus http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/oclc-report-on-sharing-privacy-and-trust-in-our-networked-world/#comment-55311 Me, Myself, I « UK Web Focus Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:01:21 +0000 http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/oclc-report-on-sharing-privacy-and-trust-in-our-networked-world/#comment-55311 [...] December 2007 The OCLC report on ‘Sharing, Privacy and Trust In Our Networked World’, which I wrote about recently, introduces the report with a quotation from the Time “Person of the Year: You” [...] [...] December 2007 The OCLC report on ‘Sharing, Privacy and Trust In Our Networked World’, which I wrote about recently, introduces the report with a quotation from the Time “Person of the Year: You” [...]

]]> By: Mark Sammons http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/oclc-report-on-sharing-privacy-and-trust-in-our-networked-world/#comment-45361 Mark Sammons Sat, 10 Nov 2007 13:00:43 +0000 http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/oclc-report-on-sharing-privacy-and-trust-in-our-networked-world/#comment-45361 Even though I am not a librarian, I read much of the report out of general interest. I found the conclusion very messy - it seemed to reject a lot of practical solutions like wikis, blogs, RSS feeds and then when its says what libraries should be doing, its list lots and lots of not-fleshed-out soundbites like "created by opening the doors to the production of the Web, dismantling the current structures and inviting users in to create their content and establish new rules.". Having said that, I do agree with much of what the report is saying - a lot of these tools are broadcast media; I have yet to see a library blog which isn't much more than a news channel and very few blogs (of any type) encourage participation. However, if the report is so cloudy on what people should be doing, its next to useless. Even though I am not a librarian, I read much of the report out of general interest.

I found the conclusion very messy - it seemed to reject a lot of practical solutions like wikis, blogs, RSS feeds and then when its says what libraries should be doing, its list lots and lots of not-fleshed-out soundbites like “created by opening the doors to the production of the Web, dismantling the current structures and inviting users in to create their content and establish new rules.”.

Having said that, I do agree with much of what the report is saying - a lot of these tools are broadcast media; I have yet to see a library blog which isn’t much more than a news channel and very few blogs (of any type) encourage participation. However, if the report is so cloudy on what people should be doing, its next to useless.

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