Thing 15 - Read a few perspectives on Web 2.0, Library 2.0 & the future of libraries

There was a book that passed through CCPL headquarters a week or two that dealt with the other side of the coin for this question, and it raised a good point in my opinion. It asked the question, what would happen if our society got TOO user driven, and its answer would be that we would lose the ability to find good, authoritative sources of information in an era where anyone could comment and rank information using tools like blogs, Technorati, and del.icio.us. We would go from the Library 1.0 era, where information was localized, not well organized and hard to categorize, to the Library 2.0 era, where anyone can find and post information about anything, with no authoritative controls over what got put where.

I'm not saying that the things in the Web 2.0 program are bad, and we do need to be exposed to them, which I guess is the whole driving force behind doing the program. But a lot of these technologies have bad sides as well as good. They make it much easier to find information, but what tells you what information is authoritative and not plagarized, for instance?