Huge news for connectivity in Sydney:
The NSW Government has announced it plans to install a free wireless broadband network throughout the Sydney CBD and other major centres by early 2008. Sydney Morning Herald.
Hoping this comes off. Wifi is currently very sketchy in the city - the number of wifi-enabled cafes etc in the city is […]
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I’m up to perhaps my third or fourth attempt to get Ruby on Rails installed and working. It’s been complicated by the fact that I’m running a non-current OS (OS X 10.3) and Locomotive seems fine, but then when I get to a particular step (yesterday, generating models) it all just stops.
So back to basics. I […]
Australian Library 2.0 Unconference
Published by November 25th, 2006 in Conferences and Australia. 0 CommentsI really wish I could go to this: Library 2.0 Unconference in Melbourne [via LibrariesInteract], March 2 2007:
You would have come across the idea of Library 2.0 / Web 2.0 and
perhaps you are interested to know more about it and how it might be
applied to your library service. Now is your chance to not just […]
Life after NLS2006
Published by November 25th, 2006 in Associations, Conferences, Australia and nls2006. 3 CommentsIt seems a little perverse to be thinking about what I’ll be doing after NLS2006 when the conference doesn’t happen until next week, but it’s something that a few of us on the committee have been discussing.
The first step will be to write about our experience, in the hope that the work we’ve done in […]
Australia doesn’t have TiVo, so do whatever you can to catch a new six-part drama series coming to the ABC next year:
“A drama series called The Librarians wouldn’t be every network’s idea of a way to drag back lost viewers, but it is a key ingredient in the ABC’s master plan for winning over Australia […]
Totally off-topic: Two recent articles in the New York Times/International Herald Tribute have compared Sydney to Los Angeles.
Australia picks Sydney for Center on US Studies
36 Hours in Sydney
I tend to disagree with the comparison, except for the weather. The stranger comparison is that of Melbourne to San Francisco in the first article, when most tend to […]
Cascada “Everytime we touch” music video.
Library backdrops seem to be all the rage in music clips lately.
I’m not sure I agree with Meredith’s latest post at TechEssence on the Unintended Consequences of Content Portability.
Although the post focuses on the issue of syndicating content from AP, Reuters and other news wires, which I think is an important discussion, it’s the discussion towards the end I’m not sure of:
What if an anti-death penalty individual’s […]
As a rookie Japanese learner, I am always on the lookout for things to read. Given that there are more Japanese-language than English-language blogs, and that there are a great number of libraries in Japan, I decided to take a look at what’s out there.
I won’t be able to read them, but I could translate with […]
How many reference managers are there?
Published by November 8th, 2006 in Library technology and Research/Writing. 1 CommentThere’s a whole world beyond RefWorks and Endnote. This Lifehacker post provides suggestions for well over a dozen different reference managers.
As a BibDesk user myself, I often wonder whether we as librarians should be doing more to support reference managers, especially Zotero and some of the other free options out there that would be beneficial to those who […]
