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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

The Australian Library Journal is editing a special issue on web 2.0 and the library and information science profession. The issue is being put together by a couple of folk responsible for the recent Beyond the Hype Symposium in Qld. Guest Editors: Helen Partridge and Clare Thorpe Contact: Helen Partridge Email: h.partridge at qut dot [...]

Hi All, I thought you might be interested in a new widget called Sprout. (If you have already heard of it, sorry ) It is still in Beta so you can’t use it yet but you can put your name down to be included in the next release, and I asume a bit of testing [...]

Commoncraft have released Online photosharing in Plain English . Enjoy.

Whether or not you are comfortable with the term Library 2.0, it does have some useful ideas to offer your library. Here’s ten Library 2.0 resolutions to add to your list for 2008. 1. Find out more about your users. It all starts with them. So many new tools, offering so much new promise – [...]

There are now a number of sites which have developed their own ’23 things’ type staff development activities. In many cases these programs are openly accessible and encourage anyone to join in. 23 things This one really got the ball rolling, with a 9-week program for staff at PLCMC. It listed 23 Things (or small exercises) [...]

On the 10th of October, the Queensland University Libraries Office of Cooperation (QULOC) hosted a seminar at the Garden’s Point campus of Queensland University of Technology. The seminar was organised by the ICT Working Party and featured presentations, demonstrations and hands-on sessions focused on social software. Despite a stormy Brisbane morning there was a full-house of attendees, [...]