Category: history
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Connecting the Dots
Connecting the dots By Mark Frauenfelder October 19, 2004 Next Tim Berners-Lee…worries that poorly conceived changes to the web’s organisation and governance could compromise its functionality and “universality”. Photo: AP Creating the World Wide Web didn’t make Tim Berners-Lee instantly rich or famous. That’s partly because the web sprang from relatively humble technologies. Berners-Lee’s invention…
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Why Make an Electronic Thesis in the Humanities?
Synopis In comparison to many other countries-most notably Canada, the United States,and the United Kingdom-the disciplines that form the humanities in Australia have made few visible inroads into advancing humanities knowledge on-line. There are no dedicated humanities computing centres in Australia, there are few individuals working in the field, and Australians are not well-represented on…
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Ted Hughes: The Existential Song
Once upon a time There was a man Running for his life. This was his fate. It was a hard fate. But Fate is Fate He had to keep running He began to wonder about Fate. And running for dear life. Who? Why? And was he nothing But some dummy hare on a racetrack? At…
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Excerpt from The History of Moomba 1955-2005
This is the Prologue of the book Moomba: A Festival for the People. This is now available to download here. Prologue In 2005, Melbourne’s Moomba Festival became half a century old. Since its establishment in 1955, the festival has become something of an institution, unfolding in the city’s parks, along its streets and on the…
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Owen Harries Boyer Lectures on Radio National
How to Avoid the Parochialism of the Present http://www.abc.net.au/rn/boyers/ Globalisation and International Relations are two important fields for individuals to engage with at this present time given the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of the US as the world’s only hegemon. Globalisation is an vital field to comprehend, not simply because of…