Week 9 Thing 23 Summary

23 Things is Rejuvenating! I haven't felt so renewed in my library work since moving to S. Cumberland where the kids keep you thinking young. Thanks for taking some of the mystery out of what they are into now!

Summer was a good time to play at this, and 23 was just the right length with the fastest moving experiences at the end, when you're getting pretty tired of creating accounts, logins, and passwords. Glad we were given the choice of whether we felt comfortable enough with the site to open an account.

This is a gut feeling; but it seems being on the eve of Web 2.0, that many of these sites may not make it unless they start charging. One site said as much, that their sponsors are not support enough to run broad band. So it seems that 2007-2008 may be the two years in history in which the World Wide Web functions as dreamers like myself have envisioned it: largely FREE, unconstrained with video tools, so that the poorest in the world could participate, so that those who have different learning styles, including those with handicaps, have greater opportunities to have their contributions to this world seen and heard.

I like discovery, so I probably would participate in future opportunities like this one.