John Larkin's Public Library

SMH: "MySpace has lost more than half of its market share in the past year even though Australians have doubled the amount of time they spend on social networking sites in that period.

New figures released by Nielsen this week revealed that Australians spent 1.6 million hours on social media sites in June this year, up from 800,000 hours a year earlier."

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An article on the winners and losers of the Web 2.0 impact on the Internet. Losers include newspaper publishers. Winners include anyone who wishes to publish online. Both sides of the debate are examined, including reference to Andrew Keen. A good article.

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"Police say personal information commonly found on social networking sites such as Facebook is "gold" for crooks using the internet to steal identities.

And online crime busters warn micro-blogging site Twitter could be the new frontier for cyber thieves.

Speaking at a National Identity Crime Symposium on the Gold Coast today, Queensland Police Deputy Commissioner Ian Stewart said simple dates of birth, career details and home addresses posted by social networking users on online profiles were being mined by identity fraudsters."

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"After winning 7.1 per cent of Swedish votes in this year's European Parliament elections, The Pirate Party has opened up a branch in Australia and plans to contest the next federal election.

The party, which will campaign on a platform of anti-internet censorship and the decriminalisation of non-commercial file sharing, has already signed up 550 members, enough for it to register as a party with the Australian Electoral Commission."

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"It is about time the Australian public rose from the couch. Seemingly overnight, technology has once again made criminals of the majority (recording TV shows was technically illegal until 2006). It might have happened slowly in your household, or perhaps you've been a pirate for a while now."

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Bloggers and Twitter users thwarted a legal attempt Tuesday to stop Britain's media from reporting the questions posed by a lawmaker in a parliamentary debate, spotlighting the power of new media to influence public policy.

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iTunes LPs are a new format introduced by Apple in version 9.0 of their popular iTunes software. The idea is to recreate the old LP experience by providing additional content such a lyrics, liner notes, photographs and other content.

At this moment these iTunes LPs are available for a select list of new releases on the iTunes store. However the chaps at this site think it would be nice to have many older, out-of-print, obscure albums or albums on indie-labels to get the same experience; and with that in mind they started working on finding out exactly how this new format works, in order to share their results with the community.

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Larry Ferlazzo's excellent set of resources relating to the use of comics and their creation in the classroom.

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Clipart ETC is a free collection of over 58,000 pieces of educational clipart for teachers and students, ranging in subjects such as history, math, science, and more.

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Thousands of copyright free and copyright friendly images and photos for teachers and students.

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This page contains a growing collection of clip art (simple line-drawings) to be used by foreign language instructors. Drawings are designed to be culturally and linguistically neutral as much as possible.

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This library consists of about 3000 images which UVIC hope will be useful in the teaching of basic vocabulary in a variety of languages. The characters and objects depicted are as culturally neutral as UVIC could make them.

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Larry's excellent set of links for copyright and royalty free clip art and photographs.

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Source of the excellent Comic Life software.

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The Comic Creator invites students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts. The organizers focus on the key elements of comic strips by allowing students to choose backgrounds, characters, and props, as well as to compose related dialogue.

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A set of lessons and resources relating to the creation and use of comics in the classroom.

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A recent explosion of academic interest in comic books and graphic novels has stirred the creation of comics curricula nationwide. Several colleges and universities are now offering courses in comics literature, and high school teachers are exploring graphic novels as a new way to stimulate young readers’ interest in literature.

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An app store for LG phones. More mobile technology connectivity possibilities. Which smart phone to choose?

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This article elaborates on how web tools can help corporate organisations can preserve their knowledge normally lost in meetings, emails and the like. One can also argue that the same tools, if used too widely and if entirely on the cloud, can also be responsible for the loss of knowledge. Who will provide tech support for them all?

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A good list of web based tools for teachers and students. It is a useful list. There are categories and an annotated description of each tool.

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