48 Social News Websites You Can Use. Having spent a lot of time at various conferences recently one of the questions that I get asked a lot is 'how do you keep up to date?' There are a lot of sites that I use, and this article lists a lot of them. The ones that I particularly use are:RedditdiggSlashdot NowPublicSphinnThere are however many more, ...

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to ...

 I recently gave a half day presentation/seminar to the CILIP Kent group on Web 2.0 resources and they've gone ahead and created their own wiki at Peanut Butter Wiki called the CILIP Kent Sub Branch / FrontPage. Nice to see presentations come to fruition so quickly!

BBC NEWS | Technology | Web worlds 'useful' for children. Useful little article from the Beeb on how children use virtual worlds, using the example of 'Adventure Rock'. Upshot is that it's a good idea and should be encouraged.

The WebTools4u2use website is a wiki designed for school library media specialists to learn about cool new web tools, and how they can be used in schools. It includes information on photo sharing, video tools, wikis, blogs, writing tools, presentations and so on. It's a bright site, very informative, with sections describing the subject area, '5 ...

Facebook set for major facelift. For those of us sick of vampires and the rest of the associated nonsense for which Facebook is known you'll be pleased to hear that it's due for a facelift. Lots of changes on the way including tabbed browsing, decluttering and so on. A total of 85,000 users are being consulted with mixed reviews so far. More by ...

The other day I was teaching a group of school librarians, and in one of the breaks I spent time talking to one librarian in particular, who was really keen on using Web 2.0 stuff. She'd done everything right - set up a wiki, using a weblog, making bookmarks sharable and so on. And yet the staff, who she was really trying to get on board were just ...

Now, this is very useful. For pages that don't have an RSS  Page2RSS will basically create one for you. Simply type in the URL of the page that you're interested in, grab the feed, add it into your favourite reader and you're done.

I did a brief presentation last week for the CILIP East of England group on Social Networking. This is now up at Slideshare (just follow the link) or see the embedded version below. It's quite short, but gives a bit of an overview of the subject matter. | View | Upload your own

By embracing the interactive, user-generated world of web 2.0, libraries can ensure they keep pace with bold new ways of learning. That's the tag line for the article Quiet revolution. They can't resist a reference to library stereotypes with the 'quiet' bit, but the rest of the piece is really good. It looks at how libraries can use 2.0 stuff, ...