Web 2.0 refers to new ways of using the internet that focus on user-generated content, open sharing, and collaboration. Key aspects include blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, folksonomies, social media, and mashups. While offering opportunities, Web 2.0 also raises issues around ownership and control of user data, as well as sustainability of services. Archives can benefit by engaging with users in new ways and harnessing collective knowledge, while also managing risks.

1. Web 2.0: what’s it all about? Jane Stevenson Archives Hub Mimas, University of Manchester

3. Web 2.0 (based on O’Reilly ) An attitude (not a technology) Web 2.0 Perpetual beta Rich user experience Trust your users Small pieces loosely joined The right to remix User control of own data Play The web as a platform The long tail

7. Entertainment blogs

8. Educational blogs http://piclib.nhm.ac.uk/antarctica/ This blog tells what it's like spending the winter in Antarctica conserving artefacts from the explorer's hut left behind by Ernest Shackleton in 1908.

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24. Facebook application: Suncat

25. Facebook applications: Copac