• When you are hot, you’re hot!

    Youtube is creating it’s own ‘starsystem’ based on hits, word-of-mouth, and cross-media promotion. Check out this dance video. It’s sort of funny. More in the Age newspaper >>

  • data visualisation & visual culture – information aesthetics

    data visualisation & visual culture – information aesthetics I just found a fantasic site, that like the Atlas of Cyberspace, maps dataflow on the Internet (thanks to Lev Monovich for the link). The field is called 'infor aesthetics…check it out!

  • Glabalisation and the Everyday City

    This is an interview that I did in February 2002. It is about Fitzroy, the suburb in Melbourne where I live.

  • Online Projects from the National Archives of Australia

    Uncommon Lives: Biographies of famous and not so famous Australians uncommonlives.naa.gov.au Documenting a Democracy: Our nation's 110 key constititional documents foundingdocs.gov.au Australia's Prime Ministers: Portal to records on our 25 Prime Ministers primeministers.naa.gov.au Our History: Celebrating the National Archives' first 60 years ourhistory.naa.gov.au Vrroom: Virtual reading room for teachers and students. vrroom.naa.gov.au

  • Launch of the Australian Dictionary of Biography – Online Edition

    Australian Dictionary of Biography – Online Edition Welcome to the Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, Australia's pre-eminent dictionary of national biography. Here are over 10,000 scholarly biographies of significant Australians who died before 1980. The ADB, produced in part by The Australian Science and Technology Centre at the University of Melbourne, will be officially launched…

  • The amorality of Web 2.0

    Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The amorality of Web 2.0 More good critical insights into Web2.0. This type of criticism is a breath of fresh air for those of us who spent the 'Web1.0' years suffering because of cheap hawkish proselytisers who thought they had some sort of proprietary claim on a medium they barely understood. October 03, 2005 From the…