Category Archives: audience

uninstructive thinker

By txt | Published: July 13, 2001

>So much unchallenged racism on this list against americans. Is that OK? I’m >not saying microsoft doesn’t piss me off, but my impression is of list >members attempting to create their own private virtual Ivanhoe. > >Maybe this list was always defined as being concerned with australian >issues. that’s OK. But as I have been [...]

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post-information age

By txt | Published: July 12, 2001

Thanks >The enormous amounts of information available to us all thanks to the Net >is a wonderful thing, it is not a problem. It is how we deal with the >anxiety it can create that can be a problem. Perhaps the cure for >information obesity is simply a sensible diet… Perhaps we are entering a [...]

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ECAI

By txt | Published: June 18, 2001

I went to the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative conference at the University of Sydney last week. For those who don’t know about ECAI, I have enclosed a brief description. www.ecai.org The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative is a time and placed based collaborative project led by UC Berkeley and to a lesser extent, Archaeology at the [...]

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call for action: ICANN comes to Melbourne

By txt | Published: February 15, 2001

call for action: ICANN comes to Melbourne Hi, I an a disbarred historian working on the history of Fitzroy and milkbars to help understand things that effect the whole world! I also don’t understand what ICANN does, but we could always ask them. Someone once described democracy to me as hanging out with a bunch [...]

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Winners and Losers..

By txt | Published: December 12, 1999

Date: Saturday, December 11, 1999, 11:17:55 AM Subject: Winners and Losers.. ===8<==============Original message text=============== In the constructive desire to halt any animosity that I may have created with Damien by my rather pedestrian concerns that technology can only be understood within broader social, historical and political structures, I have decided to log-off and find a [...]

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Remediation…

By txt | Published: October 18, 1999

Date: Monday, October 18, 1999, 2:18:09 PM Subject: Remediation… ===8<==============Original message text=============== Hi All, One of the best books that I have so far read about “new” media is Remediation by Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin. It is not generally available as yet and is expensive to buy. ($75) This book is bound to [...]

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Macromedia and the 20th Century…

By txt | Published: July 12, 1999

Date: Tuesday, December 7, 1999, 10:23:43 AM Subject: Macromedia and the 20th Century… ===8<==============Original message text=============== >An event which was to greatly affect Turing throughout his life took place >in 1928. He formed a close friendship with Christopher Morcom, a pupil in >the year above him at school, and the two worked together on scientific [...]

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labor and Multimedia.

By txt | Published: June 10, 1999

Subject: Labor and Multimedia. ===8<==============Original message text=============== As Victoria has now changed hands from a Liberal to a Labor government, it will be interesting to see what is in store for the multimedia “industry” in this state. Kennett’s government often abused the modernist mantra of ‘technology as progress’ or the idea that imbedded in technology [...]

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