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Annotating the web
If you like trying out new toys and have an interest in the annotated web, webbed footnotes wants you. Part of an MSc project at MIT, webbed footnotes is a firefox plugin that allows users to post annotations to web pages, as well as read and rate the annotations of others. It’s very news-focused, at…
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this text has legs
Just got this via email: AUDIENCES GET INTERACTIVE WITH SMS CIRCUS Mobile phone obsession inspires Circa?s latest production This Text Has Legs. Audience members are asked to defy theatre etiquette by turning their mobile phones on and sending text messages to a large projection screen throughout the show. The messages form the ?script? of the…
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Friendster+Blogs=[LJ]??
Hmmm, friendster now has blogs, ‘powered’ by TypePad. Totally irrelevant P.S. for Aus TV fans: Am just waiting for Lost to come on, so have the last few minutes of My Restaurant Rules to suffer through, and my God – how drunk was Dicko when interviewing the WA Restaurateurs at the end of a wine-soaked…
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Neologism of the day: Folksonomy.
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Laws of Cool
Just got this link via email from my associate supervisor. You have to wonder what makes the voice of the shuttle any kind of expert on such matters, but in any case: they have a whole section of the directory devoted, not to “cool” but to laws of cool, with subsections on “cool sites of…
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Wish they had a vacancy for a back scrubber…
How good does the programme for The Smiths symposium look? Still jealous.
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the work-life-humans matrix
I’ve just informed the organisers of Blogtalk that I’m pulling out – a very sad state of affairs, but I’ve had to give myself a serious reality check when it comes to the amount of extra-PhD commitments I keep piling on my own plate. And sorry Christian, Glen, Ben and Mel for leaving the party…
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The BBC and technodemocracy
One of the things I learned at Wednesday night’s talk by Paula le Dieu was that among the rash of early 80s microcomputers was something called the BBC micro (an Acorn). It came out of the BBC Education “BBC computer literacy project” – apparently, the Beeb wanted to build a microcomputer that could do everything…
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shhhh…
These and other funny, heart rending and disturbing secrets addressed to imaginary publics at postsecret.
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Calling all mobile movie moguls
It’s always good when my “why doesn’t someone…” whining (as in, “why doesn’t someone do something to encourage people to see mobile phones as low-cost media production tools?”) proves to be redundant… Siemens and the St Kilda Film Festival announce the 2nd Micro Movie Award. To be held as part of the St Kilda Film…