• Aussie blog search tool launched

    Aussie blog search tool launched – theage.com.au Australian bloggers will no longer be a small voice in the world wide wilderness following the launch of a local search tool that aggregates the most current Australian blogs. Gnoos was built by a small Australian startup called Feedcorp after its co-founders, Ben Barren and Michael Leone, were…

  • 8 Hour Day Conferences

    To celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the 8 Hour Day, there are a couple of conference being held in Melbourne. The first focuses upon the history of the 8 Hour Day, whilst the other looks at contemporary concerns. 8-hour day. Two conferences to celebrate the history and the future of the 8-hour day. 21-23 June,…

  • What is an argument?

    Possibly the hardest educational skill to learn is argument. It takes years to effectivly learn how to construct an argument. There are some good software products around that assist in the 'mapping' and construction of arguments. Have a look at this research project from the University of Dundee in the UK. It's called Araucaria v3. Araucaria…

  • Tim O’Reilly handles it well

    If anything, this ‘global’ blog-conversation concerning the term ‘web2.0’ is an excellent (and ironic) case-study of the power of the ‘real-time-web’ (or Web2.0). Read on… Tim O’Reilly handles it well — almost » mathewingram.com/work I hope Tim O’Reilly’s houseboating trip on Lake Powell was relaxing, because he came back to a boatload of stress as…

  • O’Reilly — What Is Web 2.0

    Here (again) is the now famous article from O'Reilly that attempts to define Web2.0 (well, it is famous for some of us…and infamous for others). I was wondering, can anyone think of a better term? O'Reilly — What Is Web 2.0 The bursting of the dot-com bubble in the fall of 2001 marked a turning point…

  • Who is McKenzie Wark? The Future of the Book

    McKenzie Wark is a well-know Australian newmedia theorist. He is the author of three books, Virtual Geography, The Virtual Republic and Celebrities Culture and Cyberspace. He was a co-editor of the Nettime anthology Readme! and with Brad Miller co-produced the multimedia work Planet of Noise. He lives and works in New York (see more here…)…