Time Magazine has announced their person of the year - and if you blog, use MySpace or other social networking site, have edited a wiki or uploaded a video to YouTube, its YOU! Which means its me too! Check out the full story: “

You — Yes, You — Are TIME’s Person of the Year

Next, a special for the fast approaching Christmas holiday. You can check the progress of Santa and his sleigh via

NORAD tracks Santa

with hourly updates as to his progress.

After that, check out

Santa’s Toy Hunt and Santa Tracker in Google Earth

(Thanks to Search Engine Land for letting us know about the Christmas gems!)

All my very best wishes to all my blog compatriots and readers. May you have a very safe, healthy and happy holiday season!

This from CW at Ruminations and Kathryn, my co-conspirators at librariesinteract.info. Should be a fascinating time for all. Hope you can make it!

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The Australian libraries blog, librariesinteract.info, is hosting an end-of year party in Second Life on 13th December, 6pm to 8pm Western Australian time.

Second Life is a virtual world, with a population of over 1 million, in which large companies, schools and Universities (IBM, Dell, Harvard) have set up shop. Reuters newsagency has its own correspondent there. According to a September 2006 Popular Science article, Second Life, through currency trading, shopping and land sales, has a GDP of $64 Million. Recently, Australian Libraries were given a free building for a year on Cybrary City, courtesy of Talis and the Alliance Library System in return for 2 hours per week work on library services for SL residents.

The party will include a tour of Info Island and Info Island II by Lori Bell from Alliance Library Systems. We will follow the yellow brick road from the Oz library to the Kansas State Library Virtual Branch next door. Then, back to our building to hang out… dance on the dance floor, snare some cyber snacks, and go easy on the virtual alcoholic beverages.

You can join in virtually from your own PC, or come and look over our shoulders in real life. If you join in virtually, it would be a good idea to check out Second Life before the event. :
1. Go to the Second Life site
2. Check the systems requirements .
3. Go to the join up page and choose one of the family names offered..and make up your first name.
4. You will be asked for your credit card details, but do not have to give them.
5. Download the Second Life client to your PC.
6. Choose how you’d like your avatar (representation in SL) to look.
7. Enter…explore.
8. Teleport to just outside our building at: 207, 68, 23. (Often passersby can help you out to do this) Alternatively, we can teleport you to our building, if you send us a message.

For further details, please contact Con Wiebrands (flexnib@gmail.com) or Kathryn Greenhill (sirexkat@gmail.com). If you are already exploring Second Life and would like to meet up, our SL names are Paradoxa Kurrajong (Con) and Emerald Dumont (Kathryn) - feel free to IM us!

Hope to see you on Info Island!
Kathryn and Con
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