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New media and cultural form: narrative versus database
New media and cultural form: narrative versus database Ilana Snyder Monash University To appear in 2004 in: A. Adams & S. Brindley (eds), Teaching English with ICT. London: Open University Press & McGraw Hill. Why narrative and database Stories define how we think, how we play, even how we dream: they represent a basic way…
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Darwin’s Missing Notes Go Online
A MISSING notebook clutched by British naturalist Charles Darwin, who circumnavigated the globe, returned to Britain and demolished the Victorian hubris that humans stood alone as the pinnacle of creation, was published for the first time yesterday.The original notebook, which documents Darwin’s observations throughout his five-year voyage to the Amazon, Patagonia and the Pacific aboard…
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More on ‘what is Web 2.0’?
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What is the Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories?
The Australian Partnership for Sustainable Repositories is in many ways, a needed national initiative, except for one small detail. It lacks courage, innovation, and risk. Learning how to keep all the files made by US software in Australian repositories is useful enough in itself, but wouldn’t it be grand if there were Australians who could…
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What to do with a million books: Innovations in Scholarly Communication
(The 'scholarly communication' in this email isn't that 'scholarly' ie. I think that Michael Hart the founder of Project Gutenburg is talking about hard-on tablets rather than e-books ie. 'bigger, faster, more'. Still, ebooks may eventually become more than just 'the delivery boy' of scholarship as Willard McCarthy of that wonderful email discussion list Humanist…
