• M/C Journal ‘collaborate’ Issue Now Available

    Collaboration is a highly desirable and, increasingly, often a mandated element in many modes of Australian (and international) research, creative and business practice – and a factor on which successful and innovative outcomes, as well as funding, often depend. In many cases, however, participants in collaborative projects have a limited understanding of collaboration (in theory…

  • Chinese Skype Watch

    Skype in China is very cheap. 1 Euro for 1 hour (or less that $2Aus) to call anywhere in the world. I wounder how traditional telcos will survive VOIP?

  • The future of the web

    (from BBC news)  E-mails coming out of your ears? No time to stop and read your favourite websites? Is the luxury of being able to "surf the web" just a distant memory? An old idea, which could have ended up on the dot.com rubbish tip, might be just what is needed to help solve your problems.

  • What is a Folksonomy?

    From Wikipedia… A "folksonomy" is a collaboratively generated, open-ended labeling system that enables Internet users to categorise content such as Web pages, online photographs, and Web links. The freely chosen labels – called tags – help to improve search engine's effectiveness because content is categorized using a familiar, accessible, and shared vocabulary. The labeling process…

  • An Easy way to make tagclouds

    OK, I found an easy way to make external cloudtags and place them on your site. The company is called Zoomcloud and they look pretty interesting. Who ever thought that searching would become the killed app of the web (and filtering)? Another interesting company worth watching is Tagcloud. Now, how to keep on top of…

  • Database misuse – why an identity card is wrong for australia

    One of he strongest reasons against implementing a national identity card (or 'smart-card' or 'Australia card') is that it is vulnerable to misuse. Rather than make us safer, an identity card makes us more vulnerable. A centralised database for all Australians is risky, expensive, and reckless. Police reveal more database misuse – National – theage.com.au A Victoria…