Author: Craig
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New media fog
Interesting times allow me the indulgence to reflect…ideas coming together…why do they need to go together? Is there a purpose, an outcome, or a more significant reason? Yes, ideas coming together can be good, but keeping some ideas apart is also good. Pictures coming together may only sometimes provide solutions; they may also create problems.…
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Historical Significance and the Internet
The increasing importance of the Internet as a publishing and communication medium poses many challenges for the institutional repositories entrusted with the arduous task of preserving and providing access to our digital heritage. But the challenges are not only in terms of creating the technical standards and tools for the preservation of online media, they…
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AMOL Working with archives and collections
AMOL – Collection Management
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ICANN and Internet Governance
Here is a great post by Danny Butt from New Zealand (on the f/c network)about Internet Governance issues. The politics of the Internet is not just about the content that it contains, but also about the politics of its ‘global’ architecture. In regard to the root server issue, an interesting idea was put forward on/.…
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Activism or Insight?
Someone once said that the only thing we learn from the past is that we don’t learn anything from the past. The wisdom inherent in this statement is that history (and historians) don’t have any particular power and the people that are in the driving seat are often people that are inimical to the past.…
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Hugh Martin on Blogs and Vlogs
Hugh Martin, former editor of theage.com.au and Age Journalist has written an interesting article in today’s Age about how ‘citizen reporters’ get the news out first. His thesis is based on the reporting of the Tsnami in the Indian Ocean. His article reminds me of the archive of ‘citizen reporting’ that was constructed at the…