{"id":2958,"date":"2009-05-17T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T01:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=2958"},"modified":"2009-05-17T21:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T01:18:00","slug":"information-streams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/17\/information-streams.html","title":{"rendered":"Information Streams"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Shonfeld at TechCrunch writes:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“Once again, the Internet is shifting before our eyes. Information is increasingly being distributed and presented in real-time streams instead of dedicated Web pages. The shift is palpable, even if it is only in its early stages.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Twitter.\u00a0 RSS.\u00a0 Facebook.\u00a0 Digg.\u00a0 You-Name-It-Feed.\u00a0 It is becoming apparent that this is the next big shift in internet usage, and, as with the previous shifts, it is hard to guess what the effects will be, and who will be affected.<\/p>\n

And this, like previous shifts, will not supplant previous internet use trends.\u00a0 HTML, or some form of it, will still be very dominant.\u00a0 Blogs and Wikis will continue to exist, and will be useful tools for certain types of communication and interaction.\u00a0 Integration will continue to be the norm, with the “now” infusing itself throughout.\u00a0 How will this change be considered dramatic?<\/p>\n

“Traffic occurs in bursts, depending on what people are paying attention to at that second across a variety of services. Someone might notice an obscure blog post on Twitter, where it starts spreading, then it moves to FriendFeed and Facebook and desktop stream readers such as Tweetdeck or Seesmic desktop and before you know it, a hundred thousand people are reading that article. The stream creates a different form of syndication which cannot be licensed and cannot be controlled.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This “cannot be licensed and cannot be controlled.”\u00a0 Think about this.\u00a0 How much of your web presence is based on control:\u00a0 control of layout, content, contributors, and most of all, control over the rate at which change occurs?\u00a0\u00a0 For a library web site, how much of this control is able to be ceded before the concept of a library web site itself changes, without controls?<\/p>\n

As with many future technology issues, now is the time to begin thinking, discussing, understanding all of this.\u00a0 We cannot begin the process of deciding or planning, because none of us can predict how this will play out.\u00a0 What will we have in place to deal with this, to anticipate this, to harness this?\u00a0 One benefit of this process will be the inevitable inspiration that some will have about the potential of streams; a future must-have library web site technology might come from this.<\/p>\n

Start thinking!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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