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Category Archives: information management

of tasty things (I leave some for later)

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

I have been so busy playing with it and going ‘Ooh’ and "ah" that I forgot to mention that Yahoo’s bookmarking site (once a proud indie Web 2.0 flagship) del.icio.us, has had a makeover (including a new URL, now just plain http://delicious. Huh.)
I am quite happy with the addons for Firefox and IE which are [...]

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that library thing and other libraries of note

Monday, January 28, 2008

I don’t know why I didn’t subscribe to the if:book feed earlier.
Here’s some interesting news about LibraryThing having an interface with the British Library, thanks to the assistance of a software company called Talis, whose head honcho, Paul Miller, is a library academic and writer whose work I read in library school in the online [...]

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a little news

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Oh dear, poor old Sputnik. How you are neglected. Only some links this time around – I’m doing more literary stuff over at reeling and writhing these days, and the tech reading has fallen off quite a lot: most of my news comes from ReadWriteWeb, which means most of you have already read it.
I [...]

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alt publishing

Monday, March 26, 2007

If you want to get books in bookstores, Lulu’s not the way to do it: The production costs are too high. If you want to produce a special item for a handful of people or do a book that you know won’t get into bookstores anyway (how many of my books have you ever seen [...]

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some thoughts on Library 2.0: After Thomastown

Tuesday, March 6, 2007

It was great to get an invite to assist at the first Library Unconference in Australia which was held last Friday at Thomastown Library and very ably facilitated, using Open Source technology, by Christine Mackenzie and the team from Yarra Plenty Regional Libraries, who have recently completed the Charlotte-Mecklenburg program, 23 Things.
I teamed up [...]

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