Web 2.0 and physical space

Reading December's Update last night (Saturday - how sad is that!) gave me food for thought. Under the banner of "Creative Collaboration" the article, "Overdue author asks us what we think", Charles Leadbeater states:
"Do not design the office around the executive offices but around places where people congregate, mingle and talk: cafes, open workspaces, libraries.
Workspaces should be designed to promote collaboration, self-organisation and interaction."
Placing this in the further education context is quite interesting. My own college has devoted most of its resources to improving the state of its classrooms. Whilst this has been very effective, the communal spaces such as the canteen, common-room and LRC have seen little in the way of expansion. Leadbeater, argues that these physical spaces are going to grow in prominence. Web 2.0 developments will have an impact on physical space and how people work. Leadbeater is currently working on a book on this theme and is inviting people to comment and collaborate on it prior to its publication. You can read more of his fascinating insight at www.wethinkthebook.net

On more mundane matters I have an idea for a blog in work. One of the problems of having part-time staff is finding a convenient time when we are all in work to pass on information. At the moment I find I have to explain things 5 times over and normally I miss someone out. If I create a blog on the college's intranet, staff should have no excuse about not being informed of the latest developments in the LRC. Of course, it will be meaningless to anybody else (not unlike this blog then) but at least everyone will be informed.

In the beginning was the word...

...or so says the Bible. Speaking as a failed Marxist, I'd have to disagree with the first line of the Good Book. What a bad start.
Anyway, I've been meaning to start a blog for some time now. Thanks to Sangeet Bhullar at WiseKids, I've been pressurised to join the 29squillion other bloggers in the world.
I'm a librarian living in Swansea, UK. I'm trying to make sense of what is known as Web 2.0 I didn't exactly get on-board Web 1.0 (whatever that may have been), so Web 2.0 will present some difficulties for me.