Month: June 2006
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Keith Winschuttle Accuses Simon Schama of Fabricating History
In a highly controversial move, Keith Winshuttle, the well-know Australian historian; recently elected to the board of the ABC, has accused Simon Schama of fabricating history. Read more >> Technorati : ABC, australia, history, keith, schama, simon, windschuttle Del.icio.us : ABC, australia, history, keith, schama, simon, windschuttle
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The man with walrus eyes…
(The return of cyber-punk?..sorry about this…a bit juvenile, I know, but I was bored). I am sitting in a crappy bar on the outskirts of New Sydney. I feel a little tired from spending the night with the I-CAD drafter I met the night before. Where did he learn to do these things? I have…
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An online history…
It is a tad unnerving stumbling upon something that you wrote 10 years ago, perhaps in haste, which has become part of your permanent online record. Here is something I wrote 10 years ago in response to a position paper about the future of Law Journals. Was I wrong? (Perhaps the only thing that history…
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Netvibes: AJAX at its best!
I seem to be lost in the world of beta web-services at the moment. There is so much happening in the Web2.0 world that at times it is a little overwhelming. Check out this customisable web site made in AJAX. You can customise all the panels with RSS feeds (and other web2.0 services) and when…
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Why bloggers blog
(from the Age ) More than 75,000 new blogs are launched each day. David Adams finds out who's talking – and who's listening. CLAIRE ROBERTSON lives in Melbourne's east and works as an illustrator and stuffed-toy maker. Married to "Big-P", she has a 31/2-year-old-daughter, Amelia, and is pregnant with her second child. Oh, and she's…