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Cappuccino Anyone?
A few weeks back, Australian Education Minister Brendan Nelson notoriously attacked the validity of “cappuccino courses” in universities (i.e. non-industrial, usually new humanities courses). “Cappuccino”, of course being the drink of the time-wasting, overprivileged types most likely to study a course on mythology in popular culture or gender studies (unlike stockbrokers or corporate lawyers, we…
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Piracy and Privacy
It was only a matter of time: a University of New South Wales student has been prosecuted for operating a website that distributed “pirated” music. I first heard about this on the fibreculture list, where people more knowledgeable than I about this stuff are building an interesting discussion about the implications. One point raised there…
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Blogtopian Dreams
Both Anne Galloway and Adrian Miles have made connections between two newly coined blogtopian* ideas (does that count as a newly minted term?): grid blogging, which I mentioned yesterday, and Matthew G. Kirschenbaum’s clumping: What if we could automagically clump our conversations by specifying one (or more) initial entries to an agent I’m imagining as…
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Linkage: Satan’s Laundromat
Satan’s Laundromat is “a Brooklyn-based photolog with an emphasis on strange signage, urban decay, and general weirdness.” To my mind collecting these urban fragments is a beautiful use of the photoblog format – as much as I like cats. via new home-away-from-home Photosynthetic Molecules.
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Australian Research Blogs
Adrian Miles has a good start on his list of Australian research blogs, the idea for which emerged out of a fibreculture discussion. I hope he can find ways to let the list grow without it getting silly, or annoying for him to maintain.
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New Group Photoblog
How exciting, I’ve been invited to join the sociobiological fun at Photosynthetic Molecules, a new collaborative photoblog with a great title. Don’t quite know why I’ve been included as I am so verbal (and hopelessly parenthetical, not to mention long-winded, as well). But I’m looking forward to it. Just for the sake of jumping right…
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grid blogging
Ashley Benigno has an interesting idea for a less centralized, but smarter alternative to group weblogs. It’s getting a fair bit of attention already from some very smart bloggers. He explains it well, so here you go: Grid blogging aims to investigate the potentials of a distributed media production model spread across blogosphere nodes. It…
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make your own church sign
I made this one as a tribute to the brilliant work of jebni at antipopper, but you can make your own (via uber-coolhunter lorbus): Speaking of antipopper, a recent post there takes us along on a fascinating wander through hobbyist production, consumer desire, and the politics of the boycott.
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Academic bloggers
Via Queensland Uni buddy Nick Caldwell, I found another excellent academic blog: Crooked Timber. It’s a group weblog covering all manner of fascinating stuff including political science, literature, and philosophy – good mixture of news, links, and musings too. Check it out.
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Believe it or not
I have just (finally) finished a full draft of my thesis. And I thought to myself, “why just run around the halls of the department waving it around?” Blogging about it seems a sensible thing to do. (besides it’s too heavy to wave at unsuspecting people). I am so relieved, and quite shocked that i…