The winners of the 2011 Edublog Awards have been announced. Some of Libraries Interact’s friends were nominated and we congratulate them on this amazing honour. Check out the winners and runner ups – I am sure you’ll find something to add to your feed reader.

This week there will be no tag cloud, but there will be apologies to William Shakespeare… To meme, or not to meme: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler on rice to suffer the quirky things our borrowers do, Or to take arms against a gratuitous pet blog, And by travelling through the sense of [...]

This morning I’m pleased to report that an updated version of our popular THALI Tags page has been released. This new version is using the Diverse Group Tag Cloud plugin that we’ve been developing. The THALI Tags page is a tag cloud that is generated by using content analysis of posts on our individual blogs, [...]

The WordPress blogging platform is, I believe, one of the most popular platforms for blogging. I know many places use the WordPress.org version (including Libraries Interact), individuals use the WordPress.com version, and some institutions are using the WordPress MU version as well. My place of work is one of them, using it to host a [...]

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 [...]

More and more of our professional development has moved to blogs, wikis, and social software. While this means we are more up to date than ever, we are also at risk of becoming overwhelmed. You might have returned from a holiday, an intense project at work or just realised that your RSS feeds have become [...]

Over at Techcrunch, Duncan Riley reports that the Australian Government has launched a consultation paper on whether the Australian Government ought to have a consultation blog. Duncan thinks that this is ironic – a consultation paper for a consultation blog – the comments argue the case from both angles. Australian Government Proves Why Blogging Is [...]

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 [...]

I’m playing around a little with the restrictions for Blog Day 2007 and going for a combination of blogs I’ve recently come across, blogs I’ve re-discovered and blogs that continue to delight with new content…admittedly that last is stretching the rules ever so slightly. Some of my interests of late have veered toward the esoteric [...]

These are my five new(ish) subscriptions for BlogDay2007 Social Networking Libraries – Research on social networking tools and their use in libraries. iLibrarian — News and resources on Library 2.0 and the information revolution. The title kind of reminds me of Tarzan movies. I Librarian, You Jane? Ambient Connections via Ron Edwards — Innovations in game, [...]