If you regularly use Bloglines as your web-based RSS reader and news aggregator, you've already seen the news: Bloglines will close down on October 1, 2010.

Update: the deadline has been extended to November 1, 2010.

If you want to show patrons how to use Google Docs on your library's public internet workstations, there's a way to do it without your customer needing to first create a Google account, or for you to log in to your personal Google Docs account.

New social networking sites abound, and if you have an account at some of the most popular ones you can use NameChk to see if the username you use there is still available at other popular social media sites in case you're thinking of creating accounts on Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, Ning, etc.