Category: technology
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PARADISEC
PARADISEC is one of the most ambitious projects to come out of the 'humanities computing' field in Australia. Content is King! (well, with just a 'smidgen' of process). PARADISEC (the Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures) offers a facility for digital conservation and access for endangered materials from the Pacific region,…
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Ngapartji Ngapartji (Online Aboriginal Language Course)
Ngapartji Ngapartji Here is a highly innovative online course to teach Aboriginal languages (crew based in Darwin). What a great idea! So what is the online language course and how does it all work? The Ngapartji Ngapartji team are putting together a 26 part online Pitjantjatjara language course for audiences of the Ngapartji Ngapartji theatre…
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The Future of the Web Tim Berners-Lee
Here is a talk given by one of the founders of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee. It has a number of different streaming formats which is handy. This is an event of the e-Horizons Institute, organized by the Institute in collaboration with the Oxford Internet Institute, the Oxford e-Research Centre and the School of Electronics and…
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BBC is criticised over website plans
BBC is criticised over website plans – Technology – theage.com.au What a wonderful innovation from the BBC. I wonder why Rupert Murdoch doesn't like user-driven web developments? Too democratic perhaps? Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate on Wednesday accused the British Broadcasting Corp. of using taxpayers' money to build a "digital empire" that would compete with commercial rivals. The…
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EduBlogs: Free WordPress Blogs for Education
Today in the Education Section of The Australian Newspaper there was is article about an employee of Deakin University (here in Melbourne) who has set up a system to give free WordPress blogs to those working in the education sector. What a wonderful idea! James Farmer claims that the server space to do this costs about AUS$4000…
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Techne: Internet 2.0
…people, institutions, companies, and society extensively transform any technology by appropriating it, modifying it, or experimenting with it. Castells 2001 Summary Technology is a modern word that combines the Greek techne (skill, metier) with logos (knowledge). Techne crudely translates into the craft of knowledge and is not just the skill of technique or creating a…