• Where to for Web 2?

    Internet censorship is back again on the agenda; most notably in Australia where the government plans to install a Chinese-style firewall to block certain sites. Australia has often taken a draconian lead in this area and research and experience suggests that filtering doesn’t work on a state level (for a whole bunch of reasons). Filtering…

  • GetUp: Help build a movement

    Here is a campaign in Australia at the moment from that great service GetUp. It is to prevent government censorship of the Internet. Thanks to Gabriel B for the link. Only a massive public outcry will make the Government see sense on this issue. That’s why we’re taking a moment to ask you to help…

  • What is Flock the social web browser?

    Internet users spend a lot of time going from one site to the next, keeping up with a variety of friends and interests. Flock pulls all of your favorite people, places and content together in a convenient view and delivers a more personal experience of the web, where its users are more easily connected to…

  • What is Aus-e-lit?

    (Thanks to the Arts and Humanities eScience support centre at King’s for the link) The Aus-e-Lit project aims to address the eResearch needs of researchers involved in the study of Australian literature and Australian print culture. AustLit is a non-profit collaboration between the National Library of Australia and twelve Universities. It provides an important resource…

  • Obama by the Social Networking Numbers

    (from Cathy Davidson HASTAC; thanks to Torsten R for the link) Jeremiah Owyang, whose blog is Web Strategy by Jeremiah, posted these numbers on November 3, his comparative analysis of the social networking of Barack Obama’s campaign and John McCain’s and their relative followers. Pretty interesting! Here’s the link for the blog posting that is…

  • JISC Digitisation Projects

    Five centuries of unique resources for learning, teaching and research The JISC Digitisation programme is founded upon the need to build significant e-resources from some of the UK’s greatest collections in a wide variety of formats – sound, images, journals, moving pictures, newspapers and much else. Using the latest technology available, the projects provide the…