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I've been playing around with Picnik. If you want a quick, easy, online photo editor you might like to take a look.

It works well with Flickr and also talks to Facebook, Picasa and Photobucket.

This has been mentioned around the traps already but in case you missed it: In the September issue of Currents, a CASE publication, Andrea Jarrell looks at Web 2.0 and universities in Fear and Loathing in Web 2.0. Usually you have to be a subcriber to read Currents stuff but CASE has made this article free until October 31.

A taste:

Rather than trying to control the mes­­sage, a new mindset is required—one that approaches the communications and marketing role as helping to facilitate a conversation about an institution in all its many facets. In this conversation, the institution has a definite voice; it’s just not a definitive voice. Having others—students, faculty, parents, alumni, the media, the outside world—be part of the conversation about your institution and thereby relinquishing the idea of control over your message does not mean relinquishing an institutional point of view or voice. In fact, in this new conversation, understanding and being true to institutional identity becomes more vital than ever.

Get it while it's hot free.

As any Mac freak will know, Apple have rejuvenated their iPod range, including the new iPod Touch (and I defy anyone to say they would turn down one of these things). While the iPod nano has turned into a little fatty, the Touch is something else altogether. Somewhere between an iPod and an iPhone, it has a larger screen and wifi connectivity that makes browsing the web on a small device all that more attractive. Can the Touch finally make web browsing on something this small take off? What does this mean for design? Well, I think it means quite a bit in terms of making things work across massive desktop screens to the 3 and a half inches on the Touch. For those of us dragging the chain, it might be time to get serious about small-screen design. It also may open up a whole new area in app development.

Read more at Montreal Tech Watch.

We've added another content outlet to our list, we've started posting photos to a general Uni Flickr account. (RSS feed for our photos).

Why? Well, it's a quick and easy way to get photos online and the photos don't have to be print-quality or taken by a pro. The confines of Flickr allow for a more relaxed online environment and of course, it allows for sharing, tagging and commenting. We would like to include photos from other areas of the Uni, not just MSRU, so if you have photos you want to include, let me know.

Our other accounts include YouTube and a del.icio.us account for web dev and design.

If you fancy getting along to two days of IA and related goodness in Sydney then you might be interested to know that early bird registrations for Oz-IA 2007 close this coming Friday, 7 September.

So get over to the site and register.