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MusicAustralia is a new online service to help you find, access and navigate a rich store of information on Australian music, musicians, organisations and services from a single access point. MusicAustralia networks the Australian musical landscape, providing researchers with a comprehensive online service for Australia's music. You will find Australia's printed music, sound recordings, multimedia and audio-visual materials, artist websites, pictures, manuscripts and books, together with information on thousands of musicians and organisations - across multiple genres and musical styles, heritage and contemporary. The service is free to users. Visit www.musicaustralia.org for details

pspcasting : Wired is calling it the next big thing in mobile porn, but perhaps the videoblogging community will port their vids to mobile devices such as the new PSP from Sony. http://www.pspvideo9.com/pspcasting.html has software and instructions on how to convert your videos to psp format. check it out.

Yahoo! Seach has created a new search engine which scans the net for content covered by Creative Commons licence. Useful if you're looking to build your own content and want to reuse. http://search.yahoo.com/cc to search and for more details

EarthCore is the world's first podcast-only novel: you can't find it in stores, you can't download the full audio, and the only way to find out what happens is to subscribe to the podcast. The author's goal is to generate 5,000 subscribers to this book, which will demonstrate the power of Podcasting and generate attention from publishers. The novel is a cross between episodic modern-action fare like "24" and classic sci-fi movies like Predator and Starship Troopers.

CCDNSW's Diploma in Community Cultural Development (online) provides participants with the competencies needed to work in community cultural development at a project and program management level. In particular this flexible diploma course is designed for cultural workers, organisers, artists, as well as people working in fields allied to community cultural development, including: environment, health, youth work, social work, Indigenous, and cultural diversity. Read more for details or visit http://www.ccdnsw.org/ccdnsw/training/405_dip.php

Radical Software was an important voice of the American video community in the early 70s; the only periodical devoted exclusively to independent video and video art at the time when those subjects were still being invented. Issues included contributions by Nam June Paik, Douglas Davis, Paul Ryan, Frank Gillette, Beryl Korot, Charles Bensinger, Ira Schneider, Ann Tyng, R. Buckminster Fuller, Gregory Bateson, Gene Youngblood, Parry Teasdale, Ant Farm, and many others. read more or visit their website @ http://www.radicalsoftware.org

www.urbz.org is an online database of urban images and city scapes for and by worldwide students of the city, part of the Trading Places (http://www.tradingplaces.org) network