Category: blogs
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20 years of blogging!
In Septemeber 2003, an experiment began that involved intertwining the tangible experiences of life with the vast, intangible realm of the digital world. I started a blog, a digital canvas painted with reflections, experiences, and thoughts for a broad, public audience. Originally conceptualised as a bridge between my personal and professional life and the larger…
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Key AI tools for writing, images, and video
Many AI-enabled tools are available today to aid in creating, editing and producing writing, images and videos. Some of these tools have been around for a while, having established themselves as industry-standard, while others are still in the development phase. Nevertheless, all of these tools are designed to make the process of creating digital media…
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What happens when a blog gets old?
As this blog is approaching its thirteenth birthday , I thought that it was about time that I purged some of the fluffy, ephemeral posts that really don’t need to travel with me any longer. The problem with much online media is that a post or comment, that possibly took ten seconds to write, may…
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10 years of blogging…
I am crossing a small milestone this month; it has been ten years since I started blogging! I had a blog before this in the late 90s, but this was primarily to publish lists of things (one of the first uses of blogs). Then, I started a history blog (history.net.au). Still, historical knowledge does not…
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A short history of blogging (Part 1)
I first started blogging sometime around the 2001. And I just logged onto one of the original blogging systems, blogger, and discovered that all my posts were still there. The first post that I ever made was in a (private) blog imaginatively called ‘production diary’. And ironically the very first task that I set for…
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Scientists dispute climate sceptic’s claim that US weather data is useless
An interesting twist on the Climate Change debate. When data is made public, so too is the basis in which this data was collected. Data is part of a scientific argument; it isn’t ‘absolute truth’. It appeared to have shaken the credibility of one of the most important global warming data sets in the world.…