1. The October, 2009 Issue of the IFLA Journal is Now Available 20 minutes ago   permalink

Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf

Access the Complete Issue (35.3) (PDF) This Issue includes: + Editorial: Reading, Information Literacy and Professional Development +Reading Sources and Reading Spaces in Honduras + Information Literacy and Scholarly Investigation: a British perspective + Our Space: professional development for new graduates and professionals in Australia + Open ...

2. Wikimedia Foundation Launches The Bookshelf Project 3 hours ago   permalink

Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf

From the Wikimedia Blog Post: Maybe you’ve been editing Wikipedia for years. Or maybe you made your first edit a few days ago. Whatever your experience, you likely know at least one central fact about editing – that it can be difficult for newcomers to master the skills necessary for contributing to Wikipedia. We want to change [...]

3. Cup of Joe: The Secret to Getting Rich on the Internet, is in Las Vegas – Part 1 6 hours ago   permalink

Cup of Joe: The Secret to Getting Rich on the Internet, is in Las Vegas – Part 1
Joe Hall / Andy Beal

It seems that around every corner on the web there is some one selling a get rich quick scheme or program. There’s always someone talking about a magic formula, or amazing tactic, that will make money fall from heaven. The truth is, there isn’t really one program or set of rules that are guaranteed to [...]

4. Even more music for you to find with Google search 20 hours ago   permalink

A Googler / The Official Google Blog

Last week, we launched a new music search feature , which helps you search and discover millions of songs with a simple Google search. When you search for an artist, song, album or even a few lyrics, you'll find links to our partner sites — putting you just one click away from listening to and purchasing the music you're looking for. To ...

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5 Google Updates for : News, Maps, Books, Music and Mobile Google To Treat .UA Domains as Root Domains Soon   —  A Google Webmaster Help thread reports that because .UA domains are currently not considered "root domains" by Google, the change of address tool doesn't work for them. I am not sure if Google did not consider them root domains or...

5. Brad Fitzpatrick Talks About Programming 13 hours ago   permalink

Brad Fitzpatrick Talks About Programming
Blogoscoped.com

Brad Fitzpatrick, born in 1980, started to learn programming at the age of 5. In high school he went on to create a voting booth script called FreeVote, which he says earned him as much as 27 cent per click on banner ads back then (making for 25, 27 grand per month). He went on to create blogging platform LiveJournal, thinking and implementing a ...

6. This week in search 16 hours ago   permalink

This week in search
A Googler / The Official Google Blog

This week we brought out some new search tools for the phone and for the web. We also enhanced our universal search with a better interface for product results. Multiple pictures of products in Universal Search We've added multiple images to product results in Universal Search . On broader queries, this helps you get a sense of the range of ...

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Daily Search Forum Recap:   —  Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....

7. Twitter Incorporates Retweeting 17 hours ago   permalink

Twitter Incorporates Retweeting
Fmpub.net / John Battelle

Saw this greeting me whilst on Twitter.com today (gotta love WiFi on a plane): Nice to see Twitter rolling out so many new things, like Lists, which seems to be taking off (though I find the lack of a discovery interface vexing, for now). Retweeting is integrated in an elegant...

8. Most Bloggers Discuss Products/Brands 18 hours ago   permalink

Most Bloggers Discuss Products/Brands
Jordan McCollum / Andy Beal

According to Technorati’s 2009 State of the Blogosphere report, 70% of bloggers talk about products or brands on their blogs, eMarketer reports. And obviously some of these mentions would be prompted by free sample products, etc.—a practice popular enough to draw the notice of the FTC, which now requires disclosure on such review ...

9. Skype Founders Re-Found in Settlement 20 hours ago   permalink

Skype Founders Re-Found in Settlement
Frank Reed / Andy Beal

The drama surrounding Skype as of late played out like a business soap opera. The accusations flew from both sides of the fence with founders and owners going at it tooth and nail. Check out Kara Swisher’s account over at All Things Digital for the blow by blow description. Now it looks like the ‘all clear’ [...]