March 2007, Thomastown, Victoria.
Annotated References
Articles, blog posts – annotated list
Gardner, Susannah. ‘Are you using the right blogging tool?’ Online Journalism Review, July 2005. Links to a very useful table of blogging products.
‘Library as Conversation’.Jessamyn West on R.D. Lanke’s Participatory Networks document.
Multimedia Information Centres (also from librarian.net)
Del.icio.us links of interest from Genevieve’s account – includes articles and sites of interest, mainly on folksonomies and tagging. There’s an excellent set of blogging tutorials at the Five Weeks to a Social Library site.
Book Blogs referenced in Genevieve and Paula Kelly’s discussion
BritLitBlogs
News headlines from the top British literature blogs.
InsideADog
SLV children’s literature website and blog with authors in residence and book reviews by readers.
Maud Newton
Sassy publishing employee’s blog, one of the earliest A-listers, and one of the best.
Metaxucafe.com
There are 400 blogs about books and writing on this site. Proceed with care.
Read Alert
The blog of the SLV’s Centre for Youth Literature.
Reading Victoria. The SLV’s inaugural Summer Reading program based on a reading list of 20 books set in the state.
Reeling and Writhing
Genevieve Tucker’s blog about books and writing.
Sarsaparilla
Australian group blog about books, writing, media and culture.
The Elegant Variation
The blog of Los Angeles writer Mark Sarvas.
Theatre Notes
Excellent theatre blog of Australian writer Alison Croggon, with an international audience.
Undercover – Susan Wyndham’s blog at the Sydney Morning Herald website.
Websites of interest
Memeorandum
I am not sure how this site and its related sites work – it is a new newsgathering tool which has received rave reviews from bloggers (see Techcrunch, below).
OurMedia ‘aims at building strategies and collaborations among academics, non-governmental organizations, practitioners, artists and advocates for the promotion of communication rights, effective access to ICT, community and citizen participation in the media and community engagements that foster social change, women’s participation in the sector and cultural revitalization.’ Their sixth conference is being held in Sydney later this year.
‘Speedmatters, where ‘redlining’ and the digital divide in the US are hot issues. The Communications Workers Association believes adoption of broadband in the US has slowed.
TechCrunch
Web 2.0 products are reviewed here.
Library Clips – reviews by Australian librarian John Tropea of Library and Web 2.0 products in development.
