• Academic Citation Tool for WordPress

    http://academicsandbox.com/ I found a fantastic plugin for WordPress that reveals to others how to academically cite postings on your WordPress blog. What a wonderful contribution from the opensourse community! (from Jeremy Douglass). This is an experiment I coded in a few minutes using WordPress template tags, then added to the Single Post template page. Next…

  • Web2.0 Discussion on the IDC list

    The research of the Institute for Distributed Creativity (iDC) focuses on collaboration in media art, technology, and theory with an emphasis on social contexts. The iDC is an international network with a participatory and flexible institutional structure that combines advanced creative production, research, events, and documentation. Here is a discussion on the IDC list on the…

  • 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…