A couple of items of interest I came across this morning:
- Choice Reviews Online is publishing 5 free email newsletters and
- the new version of the MLA handbook will include significant online content – see the comments for librarians discussing the problems in making this online content available for users. More discussion is on this article and in this FriendFeed conversation where I first heard about it.
If you haven’t heard of FriendFeed before, it lets you put all your social networking accounts (blog, twitter, flickr, facebook, youtube, bookmarking, etc) into a single place; to see all this stuff of your friends who have an account; and to start up a conversation about any of it right there. See eg my stuff, other people’s stuff I’ve commented on and all my friends’ stuff. (I use this just for library-related news so my ‘friends’ are mostly librarians, and I’ve set up filters so I only ever see the most useful fraction of this.) As soon as you comment on or “like” something, all your friends can see it — so it’s extremely good for finding and sharing news very quickly. If anyone’s curious I’m happy to answer questions, or you can just sign up, subscribe to some interesting people (pick me!), and play around.
(The main thing with any social networking system is finding the right people to subscribe to. A propos of which, are there any other Twitter users in UC Library? Again I primarily use it for library stuff but/so if anyone’s interested I’m at deborahfitchett.)