• More on ‘what is Web 2.0’?

  • 2) Morning Coffee with Craig: What is Web 2.0?

    Web2.0 (key components) Comes out of the Blog Community or CMS RSS Feeds Folksonomies (visualisation of data) User-generated media (social software) Filtering (Too much media) Ajax (programming technique) Real Time Web (visualisation of data). (also see the ‘all things Web 2.0’ list on this site (link) Blogs: http://boingboing.net/ http://larvatusprodeo.net/ Search: http://www.technorati.com/ http://del.icio.us/ http://www.google.com Video and…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 1) Morning Coffee With Craig: When Your Hot Your Hot!

    Today I talk about global warming and the need for our political systems to adapt to the politics of global warming.

  • What is ‘ICT Guides’?

    The UK based Arts and Humanities Data Service at Kings College in London is a leading example of a centre that advances the use of ICTs within the Humanities. They have a number of fine innovations; such as the Methodologies Network directed by Harold Short plus the recently released ICT Guides. ICT Guides seeks to…