Monthly Archives: September 2006

50th Anniversary of Television in Australia

By Craig | Published: September 16, 2006

FIFTY years ago the box in the corner flickered to life. From a curiosity it became a living room fixture. Now television is moving in new, uncertain directions.Rove McManus is at the top of the TV tree, with three gold Logies and just under a million viewers tuning in weekly to his show. However, he [...]

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dotMobi Tool Shows Mobile Viewing Quality of Popular Internet Sites

By Craig | Published: September 14, 2006

dotMobi, the company behind the first and only Internet address created for mobile phones, today announced the availability of the .mobi mobile emulator. Users can now find out if their favorite PC-oriented Websites are ready for mobile viewing by visiting dotMobi’s homepage or http://emulator.mtld.mobi. “The .mobi emulator is a great tool for trademark holders. It [...]

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What is dropping knowledge?

By Craig | Published: September 13, 2006

Ask yourself. Express yourself. Raise questions and seek solutions… Browse our ontology of over 20,000 interlinked topics. Connect with people from all around the world. Link us to knowledge-resources across the Internet. Upload material to content-donation sites and link it back to us. Ask questions and answer them. Comment on the questions and answers of [...]

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The ABC supports racism

By Craig | Published: September 10, 2006

There are two types of racism. There is your common street-style racism as per the Cronulla Riots. And there is also institutional racism, as per the Centre for Independent studies. Today the ABC aired a talk by two very articulate old racists; Mark Steyn and Owen Harries. Steyn tried to argue that the west had [...]

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What is the Internet Governance Forum?

By Craig | Published: September 8, 2006

One of the initiatives to come out of the final Tunis round of the two-round UN sponsored World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS) last year was the set up of an ongoing international dialogue called the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). They have their first meeting in Greece next month. Here is the forums mandate: [...]

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Steve Irwin on Heggle

By Craig | Published: September 8, 2006

Heggle is a ‘video aggregation’ site similar to a ‘news aggregation site’. You can search this system for a topic like ‘Steve Irwin’ and it will come back with all the videos on all the video sites about this bloke. http://heggle.com/search?t=steve+irwin&c=0 And yes, Irwin was a totally embarrassment and I do agree with Germain Greer [...]

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What is the Digital Opportunity Index?

By Craig | Published: September 7, 2006

The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) has identified the need to measure the advances made in breaching the digital divide and in promoting the broad development goals included in the United Nations Millennium Declaration through increased access and use of ICTs. To this end, the WSIS Plan of Action prioritizes evaluation and tracking [...]

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