The State Library of Queensland will be hosting the 2007 SLQ Library2.0 Unconference. Get together with other information professionals in a facilitated environment to informally learn, discuss and brainstorm anything and everything Library2.0.

Meredith Farkas from Information Wants to be Free is conducting a 2007 Survey of the Biblioblogosphere.

Second Life is a virtual world, where avatars interact with each for business, recreation and real life type experiences. Far from being a game, it is a place to explore virtual realities and for some large US based organisations, a place to conduct business. Reuters and the American Library Association have offices in Second Life, where staff go to conduct business. Many more companies, including Sun, Toyota, Disney and IBM have conducted business there. (Wikipedia has a comprehensive writeup on Second Life)

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The prize for the best informed predictions must go to the extraordinary seer-like minds of the writers for a 1900 issue of Ladies Home Journal, who wrote: "Persons and things of all kinds will be brought within focus of cameras connected electronically with screens at the opposite ends of circuits, thousands of miles at a span" and "photographs will be telegraphed from any distance"

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In business, there's a saying that goes "if you don't know where you're going, any map will do." You can almost always get managers to nod in agreement with this suggestion that you might as well not start something if you don't have its end objective well defined.

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MIT students are tracking each other as they wander from lecture to lecture using iFind, a new piece of beta software from the university's Senseable City Lab.

via bbc tech news link here my question is....how did they figure THAT out?
"Children are increasingly swapping music via mobile phones, often without realising they can be breaking the law.

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I call it the World Wide Database," said Nova Spivack, the founder of a start-up firm whose technology detects relationships between nuggets of information by mining the World Wide Web.

from the founder of technorati, a blog search engine
"I think it's about participation and people and time....
I think it's just about understanding that the internet isn't just the world's biggest library."

discovered via the information overlord
a new feed reader from google, just in case bloglines goes belly -up