Monthly Archives: August 2006

Wikipedia versus Britannica

By Craig | Published: August 31, 2006

One of the more obvious criticisms of Wikipedia’s open publishing and open peer-review system is that it is prone to inaccuracies. However, according to this study (addmittedly small) from Nature Magazine, it is no more inaccurate than Encyclopaedia Britannica. One of the extraordinary stories of the Internet age is that of Wikipedia, a free online [...]

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What is the OpenNet Initiative?

By Craig | Published: August 31, 2006

The Internet is not so much a ‘global’ medium as is claimed, but is more a ‘patchwork’ medium comprisign of controls and filters by various geographical based state and commercial interests. If you are interested in studies of how the Internet is regulated by these various countries, see some of the reports on the OpenNet [...]

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Wiki wars rage in US political arena

By Craig | Published: August 29, 2006

I was wondering when Wikipedia would face its first major crisis. Perhaps this is it. While American politicians campaign and holiday over the August congressional recess, battles over their biographies and reputations are raging on the Internet.Along with blogs, meetups and other net innovations, 2006 is featuring full-scale Wiki wars, as partisans from right and [...]

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Current TV: A future for television?

By Craig | Published: August 22, 2006

Current.tv is a model for the future of television. 30% of the content on this cable and satellite channel comes from videos submitted via users online. The division between the Internet and other media is changing. The definition of the Internet is changing. This model is sophisticated. User make programmes and get paid to make [...]

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The Management of Savagery

By Craig | Published: August 21, 2006

I published the CIA’s 1963 torture manual (or ‘interrogation’) the other day on this blog, but in all fairness to deliberation, I should also provide a link to this “The Management of Savagery”. It is a Jihad manual translated in May of this year, about the conflict with the West (note the references to the [...]

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Social networkers get mobilised

By Craig | Published: August 21, 2006

(Don’t you just love journalistic technology writing? If you can get past the exploding mobiles and the Libertarian, techno-determinist fantasies of this type of on-the-run, passive writing, then there are some informative empirical ideas here) The social networking movement looks set to explode onto the mobile platform with a new generation of location, blog and [...]

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CIA Intellegence Manual 1963

By Craig | Published: August 20, 2006

(Some light reading on the history of prisoner interrogation; this is a de-classified manual published by the American CIA in 1963 and made public in 1997. Don’t you just love the openness of democracy?) KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation July 1963   Contents   Introduction Explanation of Purpose Explanation of Organization Definitions Legal and Policy Considerations The [...]

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    Hi, my name is Dr Craig Bellamy and I am a digital humanities analyst for the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative, a consortium based at the University of Melbourne, however, the views expressed in this blog are the responsibility of the author alone.

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