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Internet Filtering on Unleashed

Posted April 28th 2008 @ 1:04 pm by techxplorer

Recently I stumbled across this post on the ABC Unleashed website by Lucy Saunders. It presents an interesting way at looking at issues that we’ve posted about before [1] [2] [3] [4]. From the post:
Enjoy your unfiltered internet access while it lasts. As we speak, the government is hard at work building a device to [...]

Using Google Books for cover art

Posted March 17th 2008 @ 7:56 am by techxplorer

Last Saturday Tim Spalding, from LibraryThing, posted about how you can use Google Book Search as a source of cover images. You can read all about it at the Thingology blog. Tim says that the code is a little rough, but it does provide a working example.
With this technique for getting book covers from Google [...]

Updated Aussie Library Blogs page

Posted March 8th 2008 @ 3:34 pm by techxplorer

Today I’ve released an updated version of our popular Aussie Library Blogs page. The page is now built dynamically created using a WordPress plugin that I’ve created with the assistance of the other THALI members. This new way of managing the list of Aussie Library Blogs is exciting in a number of ways including:

It is [...]

Children to be taught about e-security

Posted March 5th 2008 @ 2:42 pm by techxplorer

Late last month tango posted about a report on Australia’s Internet filter. It sparked some discussion and one of the main points was that we, those in the discussion, believe that user education is more important than filtering.
With this in mind it was interesting to read on The Australian IT website an article entitled “E-security [...]

RQF is defunct, replaced with ERA

Posted February 27th 2008 @ 7:48 am by techxplorer

In today’s Higher Education supplement there are two articles, here and here, dealing with the replacement to the now defunct RQF process. The replacement is called Excellence in Research for Australia, and will be jointly crafted by the Australian Research Council and the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research.  These also relate to the [...]

A new look for Libraries Interact

Posted February 1st 2008 @ 8:46 am by techxplorer

Today a new look was unveiled for the Libraries Interact blog. If you’re reading this post via your feed aggregator please come and check it out.
Many of the members are attending, and even presenting, at two conferences in the near future (Beyond the Hype: Web 2.0 and VALA 2008) and so we thought this would [...]

Metadata records for LINT posts now available

Posted September 30th 2007 @ 9:31 pm by techxplorer

The other day Peta posted an item here about the Beyond Paper Bag project. In it she mentioned the unAPI plugin for WordPress. WordPress is the software that we use here to run the blog.
Recently WordPress version 2.3 was announced and I upgraded both librariesinteract.info and virtual.librariesinteract.info today. If you noticed something odd happening here [...]

Updated THALI-Tags released today

Posted September 26th 2007 @ 9:57 am by techxplorer

About a month ago I wrote about a new initiative that we introduced, the THALI-Tags tag cloud. This morning an updated version of the site went live. The changes are:

Using a new Yahoo! Pipe for the analysis of posts to extract terms;
The PHP code used to generate the tag cloud was cleaned up and generally [...]

THALI - Tags is released to the world

Posted August 28th 2007 @ 6:41 pm by techxplorer

Today a new feature of LINT has been released. It is called THALI - Tags. There is link to it in the top of every page or you can visit it directly by going to http://librariesinteract.info/thali-tags/.
What is the THALI - Tag cloud? It is tag cloud made up of tags derived from posts from the [...]

Blog software upgraded

Posted February 10th 2007 @ 2:19 pm by techxplorer

Today the software that runs the librariesinteract.info blog was upgraded to the latest version. As with any software installation, or upgrade ,odd things may occur. If you notice anything odd please let us know by commenting on this point, or emailing us at librarian [at] librariesinteract.info.

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