http://informationtwist.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/reblogged-curation-platform-comparison-tables-socialcompare/

This is a really useful list of online content curation services (60 approx). For each service it lists:

• Resources that can be curated. eg Twitter content, Facebook, RSS feeds, blogs.
• Whether the curation methods are automated or…

The Reading Agency and Publishers Association held an event recently at Canada Water Library (UK) focusing on their Digital Skills Sharing initiative (funded by Arts Council England) which had been running for 10 months. The initiative consisted of six teams of publishers & public library services working together in an attempt to develop libraries digital marketing and communications channels with their readers. Further background details can be found …

[NB: I originally wrote this as a guest post on the "RFID - Changing Libraries For Good?" blog]

At CILIP’s 2012 RFID in Libraries Conference I spoke about creative uses of RFID, focusing on the world outside the library sector, but linking back to possible opportunities for development within libraries. The following post is a write-up of my presentation. To give…

I attended an event organised by Digital Surrey last night. The speaker was one of the original programmers behind the game M.U.D., Richard Bartle. His focus this evening was trying to predict what virtual massively multiplayer online (M.M.O.) game worlds might be like in 2022. He gave us various scenarios, some positive and others negative and it was all very interesting seeing how things might turn out,…

I've written a few blog posts on my own website about possible uses of Ifttt.com. Ifttt allows you to set up a trigger from one web application (eg A Google News search for “libraries”), so that it triggers an action in another web application any time this happens (eg Creates a blog post from any newspaper articles it finds and links to the full news article). Each trigger/action you set up is called a task.

The blog posts I've…