Introducing Web 2.0: RSS trends for health librarians

McDiarmid and Binns 8 In Jenny Levine’s excellent blog The Shifted Librarian (http:// www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/), I recently noticed an interesting debate about Web 2.0 that I had completely missed. Knowing very little about Web 2.0 or its implications for my work as a health sciences information professional, I chose to read Tim O’Reilly’s article “What Is Web 2.0: design patterns and business models for the next generation of software” (http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6228). O’Reilly comes up with this somewhat technical definition: