Monthly Archives: February 2007

Fake your friends

By Craig | Published: February 27, 2007

In the superficial world of online social networking, popularity has become a commodity that is bought and sold. FakeYourSpace.com – a companion service for MySpace, Friendster and Facebook – will from March 1 allow customers to buy attractive “friends” for displaying on their profile pages (from the Melbourne Age).

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What is Annodex (hypertextual video)?

By Craig | Published: February 27, 2007

This fantastic film annotation (ie. hypertextual video) project is being developed by the CSRIO in Australia and other institutions. When http, html and URIs were invented, the World Wide Web took its shape. With the technology provided here, we extend the Web to audio-visual data: Annodex, cmml and temporal URIs allow the creation of Webs [...]

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UK Government Restrictions on Street Photography

By Craig | Published: February 27, 2007

(the software for No 10 was developed by MySociety.org) Signing up to ask the Prime Minister to Stop proposed restrictions regarding photography in public places The UK Govt are about to propose restrictions on photography in public places which could make street photography and documentary photography against the law. There’s a petition on the Downing [...]

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Peer review and evaluation of digital resources for the Arts and Humanities

By Craig | Published: February 27, 2007

Here is a report done in the UK to help advance peer review processes for digital work in the arts and humanities. Peer review is a problematic issue, especially in Australia, in that many academics who don’t invest any intellectual energy into advancing digital work for humanistic purposes are (ironically) rewarded more than those academics [...]

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Fast Facts Found Online

By Craig | Published: February 23, 2007

This article appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald today. There is a small quote from myself on the use of Wikipedia for research. David Adams talks to four Australians who have helped to build the collaborative online giant that is Wikipedia. NEXT time you’re sitting at the computer – it may even be as you’re [...]

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What is TAPor?

By Craig | Published: February 23, 2007

I haven’t played with this tool as yet but I would be intereted to hear your ideas… TAPoR is a gateway to tools for sophisticated analysis and retrieval, along with representative texts for experimentation (link).

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Humanities Computing Links

By Craig | Published: February 23, 2007

Here is a list of links that are useful for humanities computing research. Thanks to Geoffrey Rockwell for the (link).

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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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