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Barons to Bloggers
Two very interesting blog-power-brokers are in town at the moment (Melbourne); Lance Knobel from the UK and Jay Rosen of New York University. They spoke at last nights Alfred Deakin Lectures on Blogging. Their thesis was that blogging disrupts media power through giving unmediated power to the masses. Not such a bad thesis, but I…
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What is a good blog?
::looking for inspiration by tara willersdorf:: ? Blog me Baby A good blog affirms growth of knowledge rather than critiquing. A blog should be used to build or develop ideas. How to make it less like a journal and more like a blog. The blog entries can have personal touches, your distinct tone, but they…
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Bellamy’s Looking Backwards
Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward, table of contents Here is yet another wonderful hypertext from the University of Virginia.
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New media fog
Interesting times allow me the indulgence to reflect…ideas coming together…why do they need to go together? Is there a purpose, an outcome, or a more significant reason? Yes, ideas coming together can be good, but keeping some ideas apart is also good. Pictures coming together may only sometimes provide solutions; they may also create problems.…
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Historical Significance and the Internet
The increasing importance of the Internet as a publishing and communication medium poses many challenges for the institutional repositories entrusted with the arduous task of preserving and providing access to our digital heritage. But the challenges are not only in terms of creating the technical standards and tools for the preservation of online media, they…
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AMOL Working with archives and collections
AMOL – Collection Management
