Month: May 2006
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Who is Mark Amerika?
Mark Ameika has been around the traps for a while now (he was a visiting fellow at a school here in melbourne that I studied in for a while). One of my favorite works of his is 'filmtext'; certainly one of the most complex and worldly examples of net art that you are likely to…
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Blog Manifesto
This is a 'blog manifesto' from a network of blogs called 'hardbloggin scientists' (thanks to jill.txt). But I am not sure that I actually like manifestos; they are just a little, well, unsophisticated (perhaps the best ones aren't as obvious, but I'll give this one a go anyway…I especially like the 'spread the love' bit). Manifest V0.1 I…
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Web2.0 O’Reilly versus Irish web company
There has been an interesting debate brewing in the blogosphere the past few days because O'Reilly of text book fame has sent a legal letter to a company in Cork in Ireland telling them that they can't use the term 'web2.0' for thier seminar. This seems a little, well, petty to me. The term is banal and although…
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Is Wikipedia Dead?
Somehow I tend to agree with this news item by Charles Arthur on the Guardian Unlimited (UK) Technology Blog. I always thought that Wikipedia would be forced to move into nastier, less idealistic territory. This is very interesting. Carr (who wrote “Does IT matter?”) doesn’t mean “dead” as in “offline” (Wikipedia is still very much…
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Bombarded by Comment Spam?
Looks like I'm not the only one who has been bombarded by comments spam. I just installed this new plugin called Akismet. See what they have to deal with.
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How popular is your WordPress Blog?
Thnaks to Lorelle for this link. Want to know how popular your WordPress.com blog is within the WordPress.com community? Want to know how you rank in popularity from among the almost 200,000 other WordPress.com bloggers? Developed by the WordPress.com creators, WordPress.com Blogs of the Day shows the top 100 WordPress.com blogs, and from this information…