LISNews: Librarian News

Continuing on the subject of Google, G-stories is, according to its creator Ed, "a source for what's new and interesting about Google(TM) & other search engines"...including a stock ticker, truths, falsehoods, speculation and everything in between.

Lorcan Dempsey's weblog pointed the way to a neat site done by UKOLN. The JISC Standards Catalogue is in the form of a Wiki maintained by UKOLN and provides descriptive information about standards of interest to the educational community.The JISC Standards Catalogue provides a brief summary of the formal and de facto standards which are relevant to the UK FE/HE development community. It primarily addresses the technical standards for use by projects to support interoperability.

Somebody writes "Shelfari The problem with our large bookshelves is that they are buried in our home where only a subset of people can see what we have read. Now with Shelfari you can show off that book collection to your friends and the world!
Shelfari makes it easy to see what your friends are reading and even get and give book recommendations.
Now with Shelfari you can easily connect with new and old friends to talk about the books you are passionate about."

Update: 01/18 15:25 GMT by B : - Correction: Shelfari is not owned by Amazon.com, they are operated by these people. I mistakenly assumed that they were a part of Amazon as their copyright credits include Amazon.com. I gather that's just for photos of book jackets, I apologize for my mistake, birdie.

Cool little utility to help tune your guitar by ear for MAC or PC.