Within the past couple of months, The Cluetrain Manifesto has been recommended to me twice. It's important to note that this book was published in 2000...and the Manifesto itself made news in 1999. It floored me that a book about the Internet written this long ago would still be relevant...but it SO is. Whether the authors were eerily prescient or just had so much insight into the technology that they knew, or could guess with a reasonable amount of accuracy, where things were heading makes no difference.
To me, the Manifesto hits on key elements of what both Web and Library 2.0 are...the other articles almost feel like a regurgitation of the same stuff. Really, the key point is that the types of conversations and communication that the Internet facilitates are/have changed the world. Library 2.0 is simply the need for libraries to join the conversation...we know we've got stuff to add to the discussion!
The Cluetrain Manifesto, it its original 1999 form can be found here.
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