• Building a Collaborative Knowledge Space for Humanist Scholars

    The University of Sydney has made some bold moves into Humanities Computing and Social Software in recent years. Their ‘Knowledge Space’ initiative, led in part by Ian Johnson, Director of the Archaeological Computing Laboratory, is one of the most interesting projects of its type in Australia. Here is an abstract of a talk that he…

  • The Australian Debt Monkey

    How to catch an Australian (debt) monkey. Put a box outside with a banana in it attached to a piece of string An Australian monkey will come along and climb into the box and grab the banana. The monkey won’t let go. The monkey could let go to gain its freedom, but it won’t because…

  • Digital Storytelling Seminar

    This seminar on digital storytelling in St Kilda here in Melbourne on the 18th of August looks interesting. ACMI runs workshops on this stuff and early last year I helped make a documentary about the history of waterskiing on the Yarra river (which was sort of fun). And of course, there is milkbar.com.au ACMI held…

  • How News Travels on the Internet

    This graphic has been around for a while now, but it is a useful visual representation and starting point for understanding how news may travel around the Internet. I would really like to see more research in this field; especially in terms of visualisation. There is some more analyses on Stephen VanDyke's Blog (link). Technorati…

  • OurMedia (Community Media) Conference: Sydney 9-13th April 2007

    The conference series ‘OurMedia’ is coming to Sydney in April of next year. The last conference was in Bangalore in India; which unfortunately I missed because I couldn’t get a plane on that date. It is a strange leap from Bangalore to Sydney. Sydney is just so Third World when it comes to ICT compared…

  • Why did Rupert Murdoch buy My Space?

    One can have free web hosting but then special features like backup or data saving or even domain names of your choice are seldom available. _____________________________________________ Here is the interview that Wired Magazine did with Rupert Murdoch about why he bought MySpace for $580 million. Thanks to Rory of BKK Architects for the link. Perched…