My second supervisor, Adrian Miles, has just introduced me to CiteULike. It’s kinda like Technorati but for books (and other articles) people read. With CiteULike you can:

• use tags to search for books
• use Amazon and other online book stores and libraries to add book details to your library (through a CiteULike bookmarklet), so you don’t have type in bilbliographies yourself
• find out what other people are reading
• export details of people’s libraries or tags to your blog subscription program (through their RSS feed)
• export libraries to your EndNote program (though I’m not sure how this works yet - bibliographic details are sent to a text document)

Go to my library if you’re interested in seeing what’s on my to-read list. I’m at school right now, but when I get home I’m going to add everything in my book case on it.

Of course, I missed International Women’s Day today because I was at uni, where otherwise I would have supported anything Kate would have been doing at her work.

So happy belated International Women’s Day everyone. I recommend to you all to read Cheryl’s post at [hold :: this space] on the topic.

James over at Think Christian poses a good question in response to a bill presented to the state government in New Jersey regarding making anonymous posts on online discussion forums. While the bill proposes to protect people from slander and defamation, James wonders how this will affect those who need to communicate anonymously (for example, victims of abuse and citizens of oppressive nations).

I read this on the same day that a fellow student at RMIT tells me of her research into blogging a free speech in Singapore. Currently a number of bloggers have been tried with sedition for making racist comments on their web sites.

Don’t get me wrong, I fully support steps made to protect people from abusive comments made about them publicly, and I have nothing against Singapore’s stance of no tolerance on racism.

Yet once our right to free speech is abused, we all suffer. While we can make laws to respond to that abuse, we can’t, it seems, make laws to prevent it without affecting civil liberty.