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E-Books poised to leap
I did some research on E-Books a few years ago for a highly innovative publishing house here in Melbourne called Common Ground Publishing. Not a hell of a lot has happened in the field since, but as with all things digital, e-books seems to be making a come back of late. (from the Age ).…
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Open Content Alliance
The open content alliance is a mammoth project to make available online for free millions of public domain books. Google is not a member of this alliance but have their own digitisation project. What is the Open Content Alliance? The Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit,…
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Vannavar Bush ‘As we may think’ (1945)
In this famous article by Dr Vannavar Bush, published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1945, he outlines his vision for the 'Memex Machine', which is often seen as the intellectual precursor to hypertext and the world wide web. "The perfection of these specific instruments should be the first objective of our scientists as they emerge…
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ABC Digital Radio
Tony Walker, the manager of ABC Digital Radio, gave a talk on the future of radio and all things Web2.0 here at the University of Melbourne the other day. He also discussed how a major broadcaster responds to user-driven media. He kindly sent me a list of the links used in the presentation. Have fun…