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Bit.ly

This is a great service and well worth setting up your own account with them. Why? Simple with Bit.ly you get far more user data about how your referred links are performing that you ever did using the (old de facto standard) Tinyurl url shortener service. Take this post for example. I will post a [...]

Tweet Cloud meets Wordle

This is the result when my Twitter tweet cloud meets the Worlde service..

Zannel

Zannel may be a web 2 service that is worth a look at. Some have described it as Twitter on steroids – not sure about that but it does offer picture and video export to Twitter & Flickr plus a bunch of hooks in to Facebook, WordPress and Fire Eagle…a bit more than good ol’ [...]

LIANZA Library Assistants Day – Oamaru – April 24th 2009

Today I gave a web 2.0 talk at this well attended event. If you were there it was great to meet you and share some info which I hope you found helpful. I promised you a few links that you may like to explore and here they are along with the the video clips I [...]

Wordle

Thanks to my friend Pete Sime for putting me onto a nice website called Wordle. Wordle describes itself as “a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and [...]

Twitter Update

Funny thing Twitter. It’s the only experience I have had in this life where a US President wants to take an interest and  ’follow’ what I say. I start ‘following’ Barack Obama and within minutes he’s ‘following’ me. Now I’m by no means implying that the US President was using his blackberry, saw me join his followers, and thought [...]

ALIA Information Online

Information Online is the 14th Australian Library and Information Association exhibition and conference. This year it will be held at Darling Harbour Exhibition and Convention Centre, Sydney from the 20th to 22nd January 2009. It will be my first visit to the event and I’m looking forward to the range of speakers they have lined up. [...]