Here's a parallel universe, where you rely totally on the kindness of strangers - to tell you where to stay, what to eat, how to travel, how much Amoxicillin to give a nine year old, how to promote the book you've just published yourself, how to make coctails from whatever bottles are in your bar...if you want to know, web 2.0 can tell you!
A lot of the information is American-centric, but I did find some Australian content. For example, I couldn't find any events for my area in upcoming.yahoo.com but did in www.eventful.com . RealTravel was a marvellous source of travel information, photos, blogs, tips, deals, and even provides a (free) online, easily accessible trip planner, but not much about Australia.
My personal favourites among the new discoveries? One Sentence - true stories told in one sentence; answers.yahoo.com where anybody can answer any question about anything; RealTravel.
I was overwhelmed and fascinated by finding more and more 2.0 tools and options. And by knowing there's heaps more I haven't looked at. Some of these tools would be invaluable to our borrowers if presented as part of the meeting of their request, for example, with the books on Europe some information on what's possible with 2.0 travel tools. And library communities could use some of these tools to communicate - or enhance their communications - on the web.
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