Del.icio.us offers the promise of speeding up your research. Most potential sources have been looked at by others countless times before; some of the look-atters who preceded you posted useful links on the web; del.icio.us lets you take advantage of their work without guilt--they become your willing and anonymous Advance Team researchers. And via del.icio.us, their work and your own become accessible pretty much anywhere.
But Twitter? Not for me. Can't see the percentage in trying to process that life-interrupting info. It brings to mind a nightmare I had once, of inexplicably trying to film my ordinary day-to-day life and then struggling to find time to view that film -- while still being filmed.
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As for Thing 15 (this comment added several weeks later, after perusing some other folks' Web 2.0 perspectives): I appreciate my colleague Barb Levie's thoughts, as well as Rick Anderson's (in the "Away from the Icebergs" piece Barb referenced on her blog). I have some conservative tendencies, among them a reluctance to embrace new technologies if I perceive a potential threat to seemingly unimportant things like downtime, time to reflect. But maybe I carry that too far.
Here's the Anderson quote that I (like Barb) find especially provocative:
"No profession can survive if it throws its core principles and values overboard in response to every shift in the zeitgeist. However, it can be equally disastrous when a profession fails to acknowledge and adapt to radical, fundamental change in the marketplace it serves. At this point in time, our profession is far closer to the latter type of disaster than it is to the former."
To Barb's comments ("Are we leaving the non-digitally connected segments of our population in the dust? Are we moving too fast for them? What happens when we lose the power grid?") I would add: Are we moving too fast, period? But on the other hand, what are the risks of foot-dragging?
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