Newspaper Digitisation Project

This is pretty amazing and you have to have a look at it to find your way around.
If you can see the screen shot above- on the left is the text from an article (from the Brisbane Courier, pg 2, Thursday 9th June 1864) which can be edited by subscribers and on the right is the article itself highlighted and how it appeared in the paper itself.
Did I say it's amazing?! And you can save want you want as a PDF file or print them.
This will make it easier for people to do large chunks of their family history from home.
Will this put clunky old microfilm readers/printers out of service for good? Probably not.

I have to suss out if something like this is available for New Zealand.

Best Tea Room Anywhere

Fort Denison you can see in the middle of the photo.

The weather hasn't been great for a couple of weeks but today (Thurs. 16th) was super- clear and 20 degrees.
This is on The Mitchell Rooftop where staff can have their lunch. I put a slideshow of the photos I took on Flickr.

Library 2.0 Conference

I found a post from one of my library feeds about a Conference being run by the State Library of Queensland.
It's in late November and they are asking participents to show a slideshow of your libraries experiance with Web 2.0 tools in your library.
The slide show tool to be used got my interest- it's called Pecha Kucha and was designed by two people in Japan (Wikipedia link). The unique feature of this tool is it sets a limit of 20 images to be shown for 20 seconds each- so all slideshows get an equal showing.

And just when I was going to say the library barely makes use of Web 2.0 tools they announce a bunch of historical photos have been uploaded to Flickr.

Blogging for a Living

I saw this article in the Australian this week about Bloggers in Australia who try to make a living out of Blogging. It mentions long hours but most don't make enough to equal the average pay.

The article mentions a few times that Australia is five years behind the States in terms of the impact blogs have on media and the general viewing public.
(links to the blogs)

TV Tonight

Media Spy

The Inquisitr Blog

Radio News

Girl With A Satchel

Campaign Brief