January 19, 2017
by Ib
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The fact that the Centrelink extortion/government fraud saga continues shows how far we have fallen (as detailed by Jason Wilson recently in an excellent Guardian article—if you’re not in Australia and you’re wondering what’s happened there’s a good video below). … Continue reading
April 17, 2010
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Here’s the page where you can read lots of blog posts from around the world on the above, and (for those who use a reader such as Google Reader), the feed for all the blogs I subscribe to around digital … Continue reading
April 11, 2010
by Ib
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I wrote a basic blog entry elsewhere for academics, about using tags, feeds and software such as WordPress and Zotero and so on in education. It’s directed towards staff but will be useful (I hope) for anyone trying to get … Continue reading
March 26, 2010
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Here are two very different ways of thinking about the relationship between archives, data structures, analysis and everyday life. First up, there are two very interesting videos of talks by two of the world’s leading humanities thinkers on such things—N. … Continue reading
March 17, 2010
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This is a really interesting summary of the shift to “virtual knowledge”. It’s about the transformations in the academic world, but most of it applies to the rest of media use/production (believe it or not, sometimes the academic world runs … Continue reading