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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Get your goggles on

OK OK so I know that there are fears being raised about stalking using google’s new goggles service but… But… … ain’t it the coolest thing ever? I admit I have raised myself on a steady diet of science fiction, but I seriously like the idea of the kind of context that I hunger for [...]

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Social networking

I’ve been reading a very interesting book entitled “Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom; how online social networking will transform your life, work and world” by Matthew Fraser and Soumitra Dutta. The book is divided into three parts – identity, status and power. With regard to identity the authors outline the tension between our personal and [...]

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Libraries and Facebook

I recently read a blog entry about libraries’ use of social networking sites and the mention of Facebook.  I then realised that I had only recently become a “fan” of one library’s Facebook page.  This made me want to search out more to see what was out there and to see how libraries were using [...]

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