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 [...]

I was catching up on The Chronicle : Wired Campus in my feed reader and found a reference to an article on the AbeBooks.Com site called “Found in Books“.
“Be careful what you use as a bookmark. Thousands of dollars, a Christmas card signed by Frank Baum, a Mickey Mantle rookie baseball card, a [...]

Education.au has released their market research report on Educators and ICT Usage. This survey of the use of technology by Australian teachers was commissioned to inform future roles and responsibilities for Education Network Australia (edna). edna is a repository of thousands of online resources for education, training and research.
If you don’t want the whole 108p. [...]

If you want to be part of a Guiness World Record Attempt - for the most software downloaded in 24 hours, then pledge here to download Firefox 3 when it launches on 17 June.
Given that they are aiming for a 24 hour period, I guess the New Zealanders and Aussies will be waiting for a [...]

OpenAustralia.org was launched last night. It is a collaborative, grassroots effort styled on TheyWorkForYou. in the UK.
Want to know when your local Federal member speaks in the House of Representatives? Enter your postcode and then you can be notified via RSS every time they speak in Parliament. You can even check out the Flesch-Kincaid Grade [...]

Icecream and gin seem to be the answer.
Here’s two video clips for Friday.
One explains how new technologies for production and grassroots customer feedback systems change the landscape in social media.
The other suggests that if you want to be a social media consumer, you should forget the gin and TV and put your cognitive surplus toward [...]

Oops, almost missed it Today marks the start of Library and Information Week 2008, running through to Sunday, 25th May. There’s a bunch of events planned including, but not restricted to:

National Simultaneous Storytime
National Library Technicians Day
Biggest Morning Tea @ your library

Please comment on what your library is doing this week.

Reading Sharon McGuinness’s article in Incite (v.29, 5 May 08 p. 12) about teacher librarians using email and blogs to participate in online book discussions with classes of children from their schools, I decided to get online and take a look at what they’ve been getting up to. I found the Wilfrid rap blog in [...]

Just in case you want to be a Cool Librarian too, here’s some information about a YouTube competition for the best love song about a favourite book and/or author.
Why should you tell your library community about this? Well, the winner gets to divide the USD5000 with a library of his or her choice.

Gale announces a [...]

Apologies to the NSLA , I got my facts wrong in the last post (The Big Bang: Creating the new library universe ). Caused by reading an email too quickly.
The Big Bang document that I mentioned was actually a preliminary paper from July 2007, designed to stimulate discussion as NLSA worked toward [...]