Tag: web 2.0
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New Resource: British Literary Manuscripts Online c.1660-1900
(This new resource from the a private company Gale-Cengage Learning looks promising; at least according to the populist blurb in the Telegraph via the Melbourne Age. Strange how the article fails to mention that it was a homophobic ‘scandal’ and fails to do justice to the true nature of Wild’s and Bosie’s relationship. There is…
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The Milkbar Manifesto
This is a manifesto that I wrote in 1999 to accompany my work Milkbar.com.au (as an angrier man… grrrr). I still believe in most of these things, especially the points that I have highlighted. Passive technological determinism is so engrained in the popular imagination that an entire professional class (many employed in universities ) manipulate…
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Press Release: Fedora Commons and DSpace Foundation Join Together to Create DuraSpaceâ„¢ Organization
(This is indeed excellent news for the Open Repositories movement in terms of creating such a large player in the field and in terms of pooling the expertise of both organisation to help foster an open research commons online). (Fedora hats…much more interesting than Press Releases!) Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA — Fedora Commons and the…