Category: internet
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How News Travels on the Internet
This graphic has been around for a while now, but it is a useful visual representation and starting point for understanding how news may travel around the Internet. I would really like to see more research in this field; especially in terms of visualisation. There is some more analyses on Stephen VanDyke's Blog (link). Technorati…
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The (Australian) National Forum
The National Forum is an initiative that engages with many of the nations most important issues and political processes online. They have a whole bunch of sites; check them out. The National Forum, publisher of this site, was incorporated as a not-for-profit company to be a vehicle to promote democratic uses of the Internet in…
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Game Activism
Some ten thousand Chinese protestors staged a demonstration on the weekend after a motif resembling a Hinomaru or “rising sun” Japanese flag was seen on a wall at a government office. Such large protests last took place in China two years ago when government-sanction anti-Japanese demonstrations broke out around the country after Japan approved school…
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Free and Opensourse Alternative to DreamWeaver
I designed my very first web page on the DreamWeaver and have been trapped in the DreamWeaver world ever since. I have tried other web authoring tools, but none seem to have the same designer friendly functions as DreamWeaver. I’m glad that there is finally an opensourse alternative to DreamWeaver with many of the same…
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UNESCO: Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage
UNESCO has recognised that as an increasing amount of the World’s cultural output is digitised and placed on mediums such as the web, that there is also an increasing need to preserve this culture for future generations. This is from UNESCO’s Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage: “The Charter on the Preservation of…