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KevinPM.com.au
(It doesn’t matter what medium; one thing remains true. Assume your audience are idiots!) Dear Craig , As a supporter of the Kevin07 campaign, I wanted you to be the first to hear about my new website: KevinPM.com.au I’ll be using the site to speak frankly with you about the big challenges facing Australia; the…
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Digital Preservation Policies Study Now Available
The JISC are pleased to announce the publication of a study on Digital Preservation Policies which can be downloaded in PDF format from http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/jiscpolicyfinalreport.aspx A major business driver in all universities and colleges over the past decade has been harnessing digital content and electronic services and the undoubted benefits in terms of flexibility and increased…
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Obama for President!
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London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship
Thursday 6 November, London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, Room 274/5 (Stewart House), 17:30 – 19:30 Speaker: Martin Mueller (Northwestern) on “The Importance of Not-Reading?†A century ago the German nonsense poet Christian Morgenstern wrote a poem about text-condensing spectacles. Referring to itself as an example of the power of those spectacles, the poem…
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US election coverage
From James Norman (Johnstown, Pennsylvania) Here in Johnstown Pennsylvania on the weekend the queues stretched four blocks down the street, past the abandoned factories and old coal mill, a sea of flag waving Republicans had gathered to hear Sarah Palin at the War Memorial. Since her entry onto the national stage as Vice Presidential candidate…
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From Guy Rundle in transit between Johnstown, Pennsylvania and Richmond, Virginia:
(This was sent via James Norman; a journalist friend of mine on the campaign trail in the US) I got a job working construction for the Johnstown company But lately there ain’t been much work on account of the economy — The River, Bruce Springsteen “Man this is the most corrupt town in America… no-one…
