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Winners Portable Film Festival

By Craig | Published: September 2, 2008

After a month of deliberation, fandom, and some pretty abject name calling, Portable is proud to announce the winners of its 2008 festival, chosen by the likes of you! Specially designed robots, working an algorhythm between total views, total ratings, and overall rating for each film, have worked night and day in front of one [...]

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Only one party’s in the game for attention in cyberspace

By Craig | Published: August 15, 2007

From the Melbourne Age Kevin Rudd has a genuine presence on the web. The Coalition seems to be lagging, writes Catherine Deveny. LET’S be honest here, it’s a bit hard to sex up Kevin Rudd. Sure, he’s probably a good bloke. Actually, he must be a good bloke seeing that Howard and his mates have [...]

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From Google to gaggle

By Craig | Published: August 13, 2007

From the Guardian Unlimited. People quoted in featured stories on Google’s US news site now have the right to reply, marking a fundamental shift in the search engine’s role (link).

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The Portable Film Festival

By Craig | Published: August 8, 2007

A tiny word from the people at Portable. www.portablefilmfestival.com Speak to anyone who has attended a free bar event recently and you’ll find out it is possible to have too much of a good thing. Especially when that good thing is champagne. But here at Portable we deal in content not alcohol, and we’re chucking [...]

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Australian Conservatives give MySpace a wide berth

By Craig | Published: July 18, 2007

From the Melbourne Age. And Ironic considering that MySpace is owned by the biggest Australian Conservative of them all. The Federal Liberal Party appears to be snubbing MySpace, after the social network publicly criticised the Liberals’ response to its new Impact political channel. The channel – which MySpace says facilitates direct communication between politicians, non-profit [...]

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Virginia Tech Launches April 16 Archive

By Craig | Published: May 2, 2007

BLACKSBURG, Va., April 30, 2007 – Virginia Tech’s Center for Digital Discourse and Culture (CDDC) is pleased to announce the launch of the April 16 Archive (www.april16archive.org). This new online archive assists artists, humanists, social scientists, and all other scholars who seek, today and in the future, to develop a better understanding of the violent [...]

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BBC 15 Web Principles

By Craig | Published: March 14, 2007

Tom Loosemore, the head of the BBC’s Web 2.0 project, talked at a conference that I gave a gave a demo of ICT Guides at yesterday (called the JISC Conference) on the BBCs web initiative. He has developed a set of good practice principles for the BBC’s Web 2.0 initiatives, which respects the web as [...]

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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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