Category: projects
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What Australian’s think of the NBN
The National Broadband Network (NBN), regardless of who steers the rest of the build, is a significant infrastructure project for Australia. And we all know its cost, technical configuration, corporate configuration, end-user value-proposition, economic benefit, social benefit and roll-out pace have all been subject to claims and counterclaims. But what do the people who will…
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Gov Hack: What party am I?
This is a project in which I was involved over the weekend at GovHack (in Melbourne). It was a really good event. The two guys in the video did all the hard work; I was the story teller (and was at a wedding most of the weekend whilst they did all the coding). Also, check…
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Transcribe Bentham in the NY Times
Another article in a series of articles in the New York Time about the Digital Humanities. This time it is about the Transcribe Bentham project from UCL. Since University College London began transcribing the papers of the Enlightenment philosopher Jeremy Bentham more than 50 years ago, it has published 27 volumes of his writings —…
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EngageMedia
EngageMedia is a video sharing site about social justice and environmental issues in the Asia Pacific, located in Melbourne in Australia, just a few doors up from my old house in Napier Street, Fitzroy. They also distribute their own developed plug-ins. This is a sophisticated crew that know their social software.! EngageMedia uses the power…