Monthly Archives: July 2006

Audio Books

Over summer, whilst travelling in India, I listened on my IPod, to the whole 40 or so hours of Dostoevsky’s War and Peace (a wonderful book btw). Audio books are great for travelling, as you don’t have to carry the whole book, but apart from this, there doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of [...]

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Australia’s Cross Media Ownership Laws Change

In line with the some what predictable behaviour of Conservative, laissez-faire ideology, the Australian Conservative government is set to change the laws that protect diversity within the Australian media system. Australia has one of the world’s most concentrated media systems in terms of ownership and the ‘cross-media-ownership’ legislation was in place to protect the Australian [...]

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The Long View of Identity

An excellent artictle by Andy Oram on identity and social software (Web2.0) The vision driving this article is a fervent belief among a far-flung set of researchers, software vendors, and system administrators: when people bring parts of their identities online, they can use the internet more effectively. Commerce sites can recognize them, participants in forums [...]

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Glide Effortless

This is an interesting new online service from ‘Glidedigital’ that combines many Web2.0 features. It is an online wordprocessor and calandar (like Google’s new calandar) and provides a facility to stream media (link).

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YouTube at its Best! (2)

Here is the second of the YouTube Vids (see previous post). This guy speaks some good shit!

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YouTube at its Best! (1)

Here is an excellent vid from YouTube! A dancing avatar in the gaming world.

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The Semantic Web for Museums

Description Project Context: Mr Tom Worthington presented a week long workshop on the use of technology for museums of the Pacific islands region in July 2005. One of the recommendations made following the workshop was to investigate building an on-line repository of materials from across the Pacific. In second semester 2005, Kwok Chung, a computer [...]

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