21st January 2007

“You.” - Time Person of the Year

This past year, Time Magazine named “You” (actually, all of us) as Person of the Year. This was done in part because of a recent paradigm shift in the Internet from being a vast, hyperlinked repository of information created by others, to the a second generation Internet (often referred to as Web 2.0)where all users can easily generate and post their own content and collaborate with others around the world.

Through new online technologies such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, and social networking sites, as well as online audio and video sharing sites like YouTube, Google Video, and Odeo, anyone can easily post and share rich content to the web. These new online collaborative tools offer great possibilities for enhancing music learning and teaching experiences.

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