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Size of the Internet 2008

Posted July 26th 2008 @ 8:38 am by tango

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 [...]

Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications

Posted June 20th 2008 @ 10:47 am by tango

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 [...]

Copyright - Big Brother style?

Posted June 18th 2008 @ 7:25 pm by tango

According to “Digital copyright: it’s all wrong” a report in Fairfax newspapers from Graeme Philipson, the US has “circulated a draft Discussion Paper on a possible anti-counterfeiting trade agreement (ACTA) for the next G8 meeting in Tokyo in July.” This document is concerning those who have read it, as it “would enable any border [...]

Mobile Web - a 1st quarter report

Posted June 12th 2008 @ 10:56 pm by tango

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 [...]

Internet Filtering on Unleashed

Posted April 28th 2008 @ 1:04 pm by techxplorer

Recently I stumbled across this post on the ABC Unleashed website by Lucy Saunders. It presents an interesting way at looking at issues that we’ve posted about before [1] [2] [3] [4]. From the post:
Enjoy your unfiltered internet access while it lasts. As we speak, the government is hard at work building a device to [...]

Library Labs - NLA wiki

Posted March 24th 2008 @ 7:11 pm by Peta Hopkins

The National Library of Australia has launched "Library Labs", a wiki to share news with colleagues about what the NLA is doing in the redevelopment of digital library services using service-oriented architecture and open source software solutions. Comments, suggestions and feedback is welcome via the wiki.
Four different prototypes are described including the NBD prototype, Beta [...]

Using Google Books for cover art

Posted March 17th 2008 @ 7:56 am by techxplorer

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 [...]

Updated Aussie Library Blogs page

Posted March 8th 2008 @ 3:34 pm by techxplorer

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 [...]

Online photosharing in Plain English

Posted January 8th 2008 @ 7:27 am by Kathryn Greenhill

Commoncraft have released Online photosharing in Plain English . Enjoy.

Australian Access Federation - what’s that?

Posted November 5th 2007 @ 5:26 pm by Peta Hopkins

The AAF project is working to develop infrastructure to facilitate trusted electronic communications within and between research and higher education institutions to support world-class research. The idea is that each institution in the federation would trust the authentication credentials of other members’ users to provide improved, authorised acccess. The AAF model for federated access management [...]

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