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A short history of blogging (Part 1)

By Craig | Published: October 7, 2010

I first started blogging sometime around the 2001. And I just logged onto one of the original blogging systems, blogger, and discovered that all my posts were still there. The first post that I ever made was in a (private) blog imaginatively called ‘production diary’. And ironically the very first task that I set for [...]

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Scientists dispute climate sceptic’s claim that US weather data is useless

By Craig | Published: February 16, 2010

An interesting twist on the Climate Change debate. When data is made public, so too is the basis in which this data was collected. Data is part of a scientific argument; it isn’t ‘absolute truth’. It appeared to have shaken the credibility of one of the most important global warming data sets in the world. [...]

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State of the Blogosphere

By Craig | Published: September 13, 2009

Here is the annual Technorati State of the Blogosphere (2008) report: Welcome to Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2008 report, which will be released in five consecutive daily segments. Since 2004, our annual study has unearthed and analyzed the trends and themes of blogging, but for the 2008 study, we resolved to go beyond the [...]

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Lords of the Blog: Life and Work in the House of Lords

By Craig | Published: September 9, 2009

Lords of the Blog is a collaborative blog written by Members of the House of Lords for the purposes of public engagement. The aim of the blog is to help educate, raise awareness and engage with the public on a range of issues relating to the role and business of the House of Lords. The [...]

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The value of slow thinking?

By Craig | Published: June 23, 2009

(thanks to that wonderful blog net.effect for the image)

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Blogging & Tweeting Academia

By Craig | Published: June 12, 2009

A HASTAC Scholars Discussion Forum open now at http://www.hastac.org/scholars/forums/04-16-09Blogging-Academia As the tools necessary for creating blogs and other forms of micro-publishing (podcasts, videocasts, microblogs) have become more readily available, many academics have been quick to embrace these new forms of communication. However, academics blog for many different reasons, such as disseminating scholarship, demystifying the inner [...]

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jill/txt writing with a little help from your friends

By Craig | Published: May 27, 2009

One of the blogs I try and read regularly is by Jill Walker’s from the University of Bergen in Norway .  Jill’s research is within the ‘new media’ field and in large, offers analysis of the use of popular technologies  such as blogs, wikis, and other social software applications within the public sphere (a blog [...]

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  • ...this blog is obsessively directed at profiling digital humanities developments in a cultural, social, and technical sense and in terms of books and applications...it is an aggregation or 'meta' style blog with the occasional commentary

    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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