Category: politics
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World Environment Day Melbourne
Images from World Environment Day in Melbourne.
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8 Hours Day Celebration 21 April 2006
I finally put up some photos for the 8 Hour Day Celebrations held at the University of Melbourne on the 21 April 2006. There are also two academic conferences to be held on the 21-22 June.
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What is Podcasting? Ask a Ninja
Ever wondered what Podcasting was? Well here is an explanation from a Ninja. And the funny thing is, if your search via ‘Ninja’ on youtube, you fill find lots of copycat Ninjas. In fact there is a whole cult of Ninjas (but this one appears to be the chief Ninja). Thanks to Andrew G for…
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Guns: by Negativeland and Peter Neville
After wading through the ‘funniest home video genre of youtube, it is a pleasure to be directed toward some real gems; like this doco called ‘Guns’ by Negativeland (thanks to Andrew G for this link). Technorati : guns, negativeland, video, youtube Del.icio.us : guns, negativeland, video, youtube Ice Rocket : guns, negativeland, video, youtube 43…
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Web2.0 O’Reilly versus Irish web company
There has been an interesting debate brewing in the blogosphere the past few days because O'Reilly of text book fame has sent a legal letter to a company in Cork in Ireland telling them that they can't use the term 'web2.0' for thier seminar. This seems a little, well, petty to me. The term is banal and although…
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Is Wikipedia Dead?
Somehow I tend to agree with this news item by Charles Arthur on the Guardian Unlimited (UK) Technology Blog. I always thought that Wikipedia would be forced to move into nastier, less idealistic territory. This is very interesting. Carr (who wrote “Does IT matter?”) doesn’t mean “dead” as in “offline” (Wikipedia is still very much…