Asking how big the internet is, is a bit like asking how long is a piece of string. The answer is we really don’t know because it is unorganised, uncatalogued and continues to grow at a phenomenal rate.
However, two recent sources are having a guestimate on where the internet is in terms of a global [...]

Several of the Thali are Asus EeePC users. We thought we’d compare our impressions of the eee pc , especially from the perspective of using it in the library environment. But first, what are we talking about?
Asus eee pcs are tiny, ultra-portable, cheap computers. There are now three sizes (7″, 9″ and  10″ or close [...]

BRW Magazine launched the top 100 Australian Web applications in a feature section on Web 2.0 in 19th June issue. The article in BRW is only accessible online by subscription (check to see if your library’s databases have it covered), but the full list is available from Ross Dawson’s blog.

Applications are included on the [...]

The mobile web has garnered a lot of attention in recent months and understandably so. Mobile phone ownership in Australia alone is over 90% (OECD Telecommunications Outlook 2007) although mobile use is still mainly focused on phone calls, with photography catching up. However, this is changing.
Opera Software - creators of the Opera web [...]

As of 2009, students doing their HSC in NSW will be able to take a course in studying Wikipedia.
The course is “intended to teach students skills of analysis to enable them to be more discerning about content they find on the web”. (Don Carter - Board of Studies, NSW).
Considering that a lot of educational institutions [...]

Last year for Library and Information Week (LIW) we asked you for your visions of a library in 2010. You might like to revisit those posts to see what we were thinking a year ago…
This year we are going to celebrate by hosting a Carnival of the Infosciences. The carnival has not been held since [...]

Adobe has joined the ranks of online image editors by launching their new free service, Adobe Photoshop Express beta.  It offers crop and rotate, correct, exposure, red-eye removal, touchup and much more, making it a direct competitor to services such as  Picnik and Phixr.

It also offers photo sharing and online galleries, which brings it into [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Random House Audio has announced that “it will now allow its audiobooks to be sold without DRM by all of its online retailers.” (from Boing Boing)
Random House Audio  provides downloadable audio to popular Random House print titles, as well as titles from other publishing houses.  Their audio is available through iTunes, Audible and eMusic.
“In the [...]