23.20 Say it, don’t prepare it. And say it as a cartoon

Many Library 2.0 ponderers wax eloquent about getting their presence in MMORPG’s, and if this guy can do his talk show in the MMORPG of Halo2, why not? But I’m not entirely sold on the idea that the social MMORPG’s are really the “next Internet.” They are proprietary, hard to search, and seem a poor substitute for a walk along the C&O Towpath when the Virginia Bluebells are in bloom.

A couple of things libraries might take from MMORPG’s: (1) Spontaneous communication can be compelling: MMORPG users go on the web (their game) and every word and action they experience is new, in real time. (2) Avatars are good. In an MMORPG, your character is an avatar. Even the help can come from an avatar. People don’t seem to object to interacting and learning from avatars. Perhaps Dewey the Fox and Zoedoodle have bright futures in our 2.0 world.