Microblogging

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Introduction

As a new graduate students in the Library Information Science field I am interested in looking at the important developments in microblogging aka Twitting and Facebook to name a few. As technology expands libraries and LIS professionals must consider how to incorporated this technology into their classes. Do students need every new technological device to assist them in learning? One of the main issues is the ramifications for academic research? One of the areas of development is microblogging and or Twittering. microblogging is an inactive broadcast medium in the form we know as blogging. It is just much smaller, in file size, only about 140 characters. Underneath all of this has evolved many different variations and uses for this new technology. In viewing articles one does have to notice that most of the information is coming from computer publications which is to be expected. Is there information valid or are they attempting to sell us the news product? If microblogging is effecting the LIS field, how and what is it doing. The basic idea of messaging has been around since 1935, where in London, England a machine was used called a Notificator. This device enable Londoners to leave short message, for a fee for people. As we look at our current stage we see that the dot.com success relied heavily on a more forceful web often refereed to as Web 1.5. Web 2.0 is not any new technological invention, rather revisions of websites which would give users interactive information. Web 2.0 is directed at interaction and basic social networks. It can deliver information and manipulate networks without a real web page. Web 2.0 is more of a portal than a normal website. Web 2.0 is seen as qualitatively distinct f...

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...the microblogging? Then what are the possible drawbacks. It is difficult to exchange information when you only 140 characters to use. The more the she learned the more confident she became regarding the possible benefits and her feelings change. Even if you couldn't send large amounts of text it was possible to exchange website information as well as other basic information for students. The author is a professor of Library Science at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas. Her interests are technology, librarianship, and ethics. She has published two books on dealing with technical devices. Her informative as far as it went. It is difficult to have a good balance of information and examples of the topic. I saw it as a good primmer for individuals who aren't knowledgeable regarding the topic of microblogging.

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