OK so the Twitterverse has been a aflutter at the awesome campaign by @oldspice that has taken the internet by storm over the last few days. If you were hiding under a rock, for some background reading – and watching – check out here, here, and here. And if you open up the Old Spice [...]

Over on the Twittersphere we are discussing have a meeting of twitter library folk just prior to #ALIAAccess / @ALIAAccess. @flexnib rightly tweets: #aliaaccess will be one big tweet up However as the conference dinner is Dine-Around, the conference is multi-streamed and we come from all walks of LibraryLand, we may not all get a [...]

In the latest round of who is buying who, Facebook has purchased FriendFeed, for an (officially) undisclosed amount. Check out the reports on the acquisition and what will happen to FriendFeed at Tech Crunch, FriendFeed blog, Read/Write Web and Mashable.

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 [...]

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 [...]

As information by or about anyone who spends time on the web increases and fragments, there are several steps you can take to manage your online identity. Previously, we looked at managing the number of social networks you sign up for. What do you do when you have moved on from your MySpace, Ning, or [...]

The entire library community knows about this bit: The Librarians, is a new six-part comedy series from the ABC, based around the highly-strung head librarian of an outer suburban Melbourne library. This new social satire premieres on Wednesday October 31 at 9.30pm. You can also watch it online at abc.net.au/tv/librarians from 10:00pm. But did you [...]

More Commoncraft goodness. Social bookmarking in Plain English (or.. find out how to use del.icio.us )

The clips below, produced by Lee and Sachi LeFever of Commoncraft , take less than 10 minutes to watch and explain RSS, Wikis and Social Networking more clearly than any other resource I’ve found. Lee LeFever explains the stylistic decisions they made for the clips and why the constraints they chose give them freedom to [...]