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It's good to be scared.(Web 2.0)(Brief article)
Byline: Mark Chillingworth
It's good to be scared
Recently, I was lucky enough to be part of a discussion panel organised by City Information Group (CIG). We were debating the future role of research and information professionals in the face of new networking technologies, collectively dubbed Web 2.0.
My hat goes off to the information professionals at the event who put their hands in the air and admitted they didn't fully understand the technology and the issues it presented to their working lives. It's a brave move in a busy room full of your peers. But it is OK to admit you don't understand the full complexity of the Web 2.0 plot. I left the conference feeling that almost everyone, apart from my co-panellist Euan Semple and IWR's own David Tebbutt, was a little shaky on some areas of Web 2.0. I too feel out of touch with RSS and Facebook.
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