Monthly Archives: December 2006

Pod Save the Queen

By Craig | Published: December 22, 2006

The Queens message is podcast this year. I can’t wait! (link)

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What is the Community Informatics Research Network?

By Craig | Published: December 20, 2006

The Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) is an international network of researchers, practitioners and policy makers concerned with enabling communities through the use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) and specifically with research and practice in Community Informatics and community networking or community technology practice.(link)

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What is the Centre for Community Networking Research?

By Craig | Published: December 20, 2006

This centre at Monash University holds a conference on ‘community networks’ annually at Monash’s Prato Centre in Italy (link 2006) The Centre for Community Networking Research, Caulfield School of Information Technology, at Monash University, aims to understand how communities and community organisations are using new technologies. We are interested in the practicalities of information and [...]

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What is the Text Encoding Initiative?

By Craig | Published: December 17, 2006

The Text Encoding Initiative is one of the most important developments in the field of Humanities Computing. The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines are an international and interdisciplinary standard that enables libraries, museums, publishers, and individual scholars to represent a variety of literary and linguistic texts for online research, teaching, and preservation (link)

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Blog Growth Slowing

By Craig | Published: December 17, 2006

Could blogging be near the peak of its popularity? The technology gurus at Gartner Inc. believe so.One of the research company’s top 10 predictions for 2007 is that the number of bloggers will level off in the first half of next year at roughly 100 million worldwide (link the Age)

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Victoria gets first Greens in Parliament

By Craig | Published: December 13, 2006

Greg Barber is one of three Green representatives recently elected to ‘Northern Metropolitan’ region in the 40-seat Legislative Council with Greens colleague Sue Pennicuik and one DLP member (with which he will share the balance of power). These are the first Greens in the Victorian Parliament. Here is an interview I did with Greg for [...]

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Identity 2.0

By Craig | Published: December 12, 2006

Dick Hardt is somewhat of a corporate man, but what a great public speaker! (in a field not famous for it). Check out this talk on Identity 2.0. He’s on to something, although what a pity that most of these innovations emanate from the commercial sphere. There are educational equivalents here in the UK, but [...]

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