Category: media
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AHDH History
The Arts and Humanities Data Service (where I work) has a number of offices throughout the UK that specialise in more disciplanary approaches to digital technology in the humanities. This is one of the reasons that I like Digital Humanities (or ‘Humanities Computing’) in that it respects the body of knowledge and autonomous directions built…
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BBC’s Editorial Blueprint for the future
BBC Director-General Mark Thompson today launched an extensive cross-media, audience-focussed project entitled Creative Futures which will produce an editorial blueprint for BBC programmes, content and services during the next Charter period. Following publication of the Government’s Green Paper on the BBC’s future last week, Mr Thompson said: “This project is designed to turn the purposes…
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50th Anniversary of Television in Australia
FIFTY years ago, the box in the corner flickered to life. From a curiosity, it became a living room fixture. Now, television is moving in new, uncertain directions. Rove McManus is at the top of the TV tree, with three gold Logies and just under a million viewers tuning in weekly to his show. However,…
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Wikipedia 3.0: The End of Google?
The Semantic Web (or Web 3.0) promises to “organize the world’s information” in a dramatically more logical way than Google can ever achieve with their current engine design. This is specially true from the point of view of machine comprehension as opposed to human comprehension.The Semantic Web requires the use of a declarative ontological language…
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30 000 Police Monitor Blogs in China
I am not sure how accurate this claim is; that 30 000 police monitor Blogs in China, but it is form the Guardian, which is a pretty reliable if not at times a predictably narrow publication. When will big Western media realise that the Cold War is over and it is now safe to take…