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flickr meetup
Yesterday I finally made it to my first Brisbane flickr meetup, which is part of my fieldwork but also a nice way to spend a Sunday afternoon. We met at the Regatta, hopped on the citycat and went downriver to the University of Queensland, where we wandered along the riverbank up to the construction site…
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MS Office integrates CC licensing
Talk about the clash of cultures… License your office (documents) Microsoft has released a tool for copyright licensing that enables the easy addition of Creative Commons licensing information for works in popular Microsoft Office applications. The software is available free of charge at Microsoft Office Online and will enable the 400 million [PC-based] users of…
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yet another redesign
Aesthetic critiques and bug reports very welcome – especially if you have the misfortune to be using IE. I’m thinking I will rotate header images in an attempt to stave off the inevitable design fatigue, and hopefully keep this design for more than 6 months or however long the previous one lasted. I’m using K2…
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I’ve moved
After more than 2 years benefiting from Adrian Miles’ idea to set up a network of new media studies related blogs at hypertext.rmit.edu.au, I’ve decided to move to my own domain and server (almost at the same time as Mel did). I want to publicly thank Adrian for answering all my newbie questions about wordpress…
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KGUV Digital Stories Now Online
I’ve just returned to my office, full of scones and lamingtons and date loaf, after the very well-attended launch of the second Kelvin Grove Urban Village Sharing Stories exhibition at the Creative Industries Precinct at QUT. As part of the launch we screened the digital stories from the 2006 workshop, which I co-ordinated with project…
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grappling with cultural citizenship
I have hit the books again, and I’m alternately working out ideas and culling stuff from my draft, so no more word counts for a while. When they do return they’ll just show how many words I’ve written that day, too, no more of this mythical ‘total’ word count business. Like much of my writing,…
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Belkin TuneTalk Stereo shipping this month
An announcement from iLounge: Belkin today announced that its new TuneTalk Stereo will be available in North America in mid-June, with launches in Asia, Europe, and Australia to follow closely. The $70 device, first shown at Macworld Expo in January, lets you record audio in CD-quality stereo sound. It features two high-quality omnidirectional microphones, an…
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Counter-Heroics
Hurrah – the Counter-Heroics and Counter-Professionalism in Cultural Studies Special Issue of Continuum, which grew out of the ‘Fields of Uncool’ panel at the CSAA conference way back in 2004, is now out! Thanks so much to Mel, Kris, Jane and Will for one of the most energising and productive collaborations I’ve been involved with…
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multipliCity
Some colleagues of mine have just started a new interdisciplinary email discussion list that should be of interest to anyone working on cities/urban spaces: multipliCity — Conversations on cities Multiplicity is an online discussion forum for all matters urban. As paradigmatic of the modern and postmodern experience, the city remains defiantly at the epicentre of…
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Crowdsourcing as Free Labour
I love Wired, it is just so blatant: For the last decade or so, companies have been looking overseas, to India or China, for cheap labor. But now it doesn’t matter where the laborers are – they might be down the block, they might be in Indonesia – as long as they are connected to…