Nethui. You should have been there. No really, you should have.

Webstock used to be my no-miss conference until this week. It’s like a combined rock festival and party for geeks – the learning and fun are intense and amazing. If Webstock was a keyword it would be “awesome”. Nethui was not a rock festival, and less of a party in terms of headiness. Yes, there were [...]

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#blogjune 19: Libraries and library fandom

Let’s start with a definition from a “Tomorrow People” fan: Fandom (from the noun fan and the affix -dom, as in kingdom, freedom, etc.) is a term used to refer to a subculture composed of fans characterized by a feeling of sympathy and camaraderie with others who share a common interest.1 Soon after local government [...]

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Blogjune 3: Tag, you’re it!

Tag as in we didn’t have a blogjune tag until I just did it now and in actual fact I’m it because it’s my turn, which I’ve known since exactly yesterday thanks to a small email-related hiccup. That’s the joy of the digital age. We had a round of emails as to how we might [...]

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Reflecting On Elections

It  won’t come as too much of a surprise, but the whole recent election process has had my mind quite occupied. As I said earlier, I think that the small profile that was included on the voting papers didn’t provide people with enough information. I feel  that with the launch of the new website, LIANZA [...]

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To Be or Not To Be

“To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?” (Hamlet Act 3, Scn 1) If there is a truism that I have learnt reading and [...]

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