Category Archives: internet

Recovering an ‘ephemeral’ life online

During the past two decades, the Internet and its applications have become one of the richest sources of bibliographical information available to scholars. Through email lists, web-pages, blogs, video and sound-recordings, and publications in various guises, the traces of one’s online life on line can be rich and varied.  At perhaps no other time in [...]

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eResearch in an international information environment: developments, challenges and responses

(This is a rough draft of a paper that is planned to be published sometime soon. If you have any comments in terms of factual accuracy or arguments they would be very much appreciated). Synopsis: The application of diverse forms of eResearch infrastructures to support research has a long history. During the 1970s the genesis [...]

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Tim Berners-Lee on Linked Data

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Obama internet ‘kill switch’ proposed

US President Barack Obama would be granted powers to seize control of and even shut down the internet under a new bill that describes the global internet as a US “national asset”. Local lobby groups and academics have rounded on the plan, saying that, rather than combat terrorists, it would actually do them “the biggest [...]

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No room at the internet

Could everyone please stop launching blogs and upgrading smartphones and buying airconditioners that are operated across the web? The internet is nearly full. In approximately 500 days, planet Earth is expected to run out of the unique numbers that identify the world’s networked devices. The numbers are known as internet protocol addresses but if that [...]

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Google Evil Agenda

This doco doesn’t really offer any solution to Google’s domination of online search. However, full marks for at least trying to be critical. I will see what else I can dig up and get back to you.

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The Internet as playground and factory

Patrica Clough interviewed at a recent conference at the New School, NY. The interview is a bit of a hot-air rant that lacks any form of evidence, but there are some good ideas buried in there. Thanks to Trebor S for the link The Internet as Playground and Factory – Patricia Clough from Trebor Scholz [...]

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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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