Monthly Archives: April 2006

PARADISEC

By Craig | Published: April 28, 2006

PARADISEC  is one of the most ambitious projects to come out of the 'humanities computing' field in Australia. Content is King! (well, with just a 'smidgen' of process). PARADISEC (the Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures) offers a facility for digital conservation and access for endangered materials from the Pacific region, [...]

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Ngapartji Ngapartji (Online Aboriginal Language Course)

By Craig | Published: April 28, 2006

Ngapartji Ngapartji Here is a highly innovative online course to teach Aboriginal languages (crew based in Darwin). What a great idea!  So what is the online language course and how does it all work? The Ngapartji Ngapartji team are putting together a 26 part online Pitjantjatjara language course for audiences of the Ngapartji Ngapartji theatre [...]

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Organised Networks

By Craig | Published: April 28, 2006

A prolific researcher working at the University of Ulster in Norther Irland is Ned Rossiter. Ned's research is on the power relationships in networks and the new institutional forms of networks. His work is an interesting read (if you are into that) but pity that he isn't a little more technically savvy. Organised Networks: Transdisciplinarity [...]

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The Future of the Web Tim Berners-Lee

By Craig | Published: April 28, 2006

Here is a talk given by one of the founders of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee. It has a number of different streaming formats which is handy. This is an event of the e-Horizons Institute, organized by the Institute in collaboration with the Oxford Internet Institute, the Oxford e-Research Centre and the School of Electronics and [...]

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Civil Rights Defence (fund raising gig)

By Craig | Published: April 28, 2006

Civil Rights Defence Here is an interseting activist group here in Melbourne called Civil Rights Defense. Their main focus (at the moment) is against the Federal Coalition's Anti-Terrorist laws. They have a fund raiser on tonight called 'A night of Sedition' (which is part of the St Kilda Writers' Festival). 8pm sharp Theatreworks 14 Acland Street, St [...]

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BBC is criticised over website plans

By Craig | Published: April 27, 2006

BBC is criticised over website plans – Technology – theage.com.au What a wonderful innovation from the BBC. I wonder why Rupert Murdoch doesn't like user-driven web developments? Too democratic perhaps? Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate on Wednesday accused the British Broadcasting Corp. of using taxpayers' money to build a "digital empire" that would compete with commercial rivals. The [...]

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EduBlogs: Free WordPress Blogs for Education

By Craig | Published: April 26, 2006

Today in the Education Section of The Australian Newspaper there was is article about an employee of Deakin University (here in Melbourne) who has set up a system to give free WordPress blogs to those working in the education sector. What a wonderful idea! James Farmer claims that the server space to do this costs about AUS$4000 [...]

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