• Open Content Alliance

    The open content alliance is a mammoth project to make available online for free millions of public domain books. Google is not a member of this alliance but have their own digitisation project. What is the Open Content Alliance? The Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit,…

  • Live Media

    Here is an 'interpretation' of 'WEB2.0' from the perspective of  'live media'. This caught my eye because the author takes a non-technological-determinist perspective (always a much more sophisticated position). There are alot of talanted people coming out of Britain in the Web2.0 world (link )  Live Media is different. It is about conversations and content…

  • Media Kit for Activists

    Here is a wonderful short documentary produced by Andrew Garton about a media training kit for NGOs (Non-Government Organisations) and other civil society community groups. (The video is self-explanatory). ItrainOnline Multimedia Training Kit The ItrainOnline MMTK is a growing collection of “workshop kits” for face-to-face training. The materials use a standard set of templates, and…

  • Vannavar Bush ‘As we may think’ (1945)

    In this famous article by Dr Vannavar Bush, published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1945, he outlines his vision for the 'Memex Machine', which is often seen as the intellectual precursor to hypertext and the world wide web. "The perfection of these specific instruments should be the first objective of our scientists as they emerge…

  • ABC Digital Radio

    Tony Walker, the manager of ABC Digital Radio, gave a talk on the future of radio and all things Web2.0 here at the University of Melbourne the other day. He also discussed how a major broadcaster responds to user-driven media. He kindly sent me a list of the links used in the presentation. Have fun…

  • Social Isolation Linked to the web.

    This study using Grannoveter's concept of 'strong and weak ties' is interesting, not so much because it is about the Internet, but because it blames the Internet. You could say exactly the opposite (and some researchers do); that the Internet actually increases social networks. Robert Putnam in his mammoth study of the decline of 'social…