An interesting point raised by Marcus Bank in Blog Posts and Tweets: the next frontier for grey literature is that that user-generated content created in web 2.0 applications such as blogs and microblogs are now a critical source of professional information (p. 220, para. 3) and as this form of realtime communication (as opposed to tradtional print publications which are often out of date once published) is increasing, there needs to be consideration around preserving web 2.0 content (p. 220, para. 5).
While there are proponents of preservtion (global and personal) of internet content, questions raised when Library of Congress acquired Twitter archives are worth considering as part of the preservation debate: (a) the quality and value of conent; (b) ownership and copyright; and (c) privacy.
Reference: Bank, M. (2010). Blog posts and tweets: the next frontier for grey literature In D. Farace & J. Schöpfel (Eds.) Grey literature in library and information studies, pp. 227-238. [Adobe Digital Electronic versions]. doi: 10.1515/9783598441493. Available from: http://www.alia.eblib.com.au/
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