Apart from the library bloggers, that is .. 1.  Guy Kawasaki.  I love his writing style and nearly always learn something new. 2.  Stephen Downes.  Enjoy his tone of voice (and, of course the content.  I wish I could read as prolifically, and comment as succinctly as he does).  Actually the link is to his [...]

5 blogs for International Blog Day – I thought I’d take a look at 5 blogs I’ve never seen before and used the finger theme to search for them. Thumb – Rules of thumb Index – Blog about the technology business – Indexed Forever Middle – A photo blog of Middle-Fork Ring – Full circle online [...]

Today is International Blog Day. This day, celebrating the blogosphere, began last year. On the day: In one long moment In August 31st, bloggers from all over the world will post a recommendation of 5 new Blogs, preferably, Blogs different from their own culture, point of view and attitude. On this day, blog surfers will [...]

I think my list of my favourite blogs for blog day would be the same as everyone else on lint. Here’s my list of 5 blogs I love to read, but have fewer than 200 subscribers on bloglines. Most have less than 20. Temporal Island. De walks around Perth recording her observations and seeing more [...]

I spotted this chart a couple of weeks ago but didn’t manage to get around to looking at it more closely until tonight. Joyce Valenza‘s put together a great chart looking at the quite dramatic differences that have occurred during her thirty years of practice as a teacher librarian. She compares the sorts of information [...]

Just noted: the launch of the official Click 06 Conference Blog. It’s good to see that Click 06 is going to be blogged about – as we also have the Blog the Conf blog, and Tom and Sarah in Sydney will be coming over, and are going to blog their experiences, too. Anyone else? Do [...]

It’s wonderful to see that so many librarians from Queensland and nearby regions are so keen to learn about the use of emerging technologies to communicate with their clients. Following last year’s sell-out seminar “New Communication Technologies in Libraries”, the QULOC ICT working party arranged a reprise ” Communicating With Clients Using New Technologies”. This [...]

  Don’t forget to register before October 6 if you want to take advantage of the Early Bird rates. Joan Frye Williams will be the International Keynote Speaker, exploring the ways new service models can help us meet our users’ changing expectations. Proudly sponsored by the National Library of Australia. http://conferences.alia.org.au/newlibrarian2006/

This post this morning, Neither far out nor in deep.at blyberg.net really caught my imagination. It discusses the insecurities brought on by the “Library2.0” technologies and what we may encounter as we ride the wave. Experimentation, sustainability, popularity of services, relinquishing control, coping with outside influences are all touched on. Articulates some of the things [...]

You may have noticed the small orange icons on the right, near the bottom of this blog page, “Feed” and “Comments feed“, and below that an icon with the information “73 readers by Feedburner” (at least as of this evening). This tells me that at least 73 regular readers of this blog are subscribers who [...]