For Things 9&10 I,ve created a Flickr account and did my contribution towards Creative Commons "a non-profit that offers an alternative to full copyright.". I did upload some of my photos and I have given them all Attribution-ShareALike License which means: Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work; and Remix — to adapt the work! Now I'm waiting what will come up out of that and exploring one of the library-related web 2.0 projects I have been most impressed by in general the Flickr Commons. It has been up and running for few years now and contains a vast collection of photographs from libraries and archives all over the world, all made available via Flickr. The first incarnation of The Commons was a pilot project created in partnership with The Library of Congress, which has enormous photo catalogue, containing over a million photos. The Library team has chosen about 1,500 photos each from two of their more popular collections to show on Flickr. Then other institutions started to paricipate like: George Eastman House, Library of Congress, Brooklyn Museum, National Archives UK, State Library of New South Wales, and Smithsonian Institution, National Galleries of Scotland, the National Maritime Museum, LSE Library. and so on... The goal of the license is to "firstly show you hidden treasures in the world's public photography archives, and secondly to show how your input and knowledge can help make these collections even richer." I think example of Library of Congress contribution to Flickr Commons is a fantastic example for other libraries how libraries and web 2.0 sites can work together to promote and increase access to resources, not only to their traditional users but reaching out to a worldwide community of web users!!
PS
It was great to discover word art program: Wordle and Tagxedo that allowed me to upload strings of text or tags and create tag clouds - brilliant!!
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