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geekgrrls misbehaving
misbehaving.net is a new group weblog on women and technology – regular posters include danah boyd, Caterina Fake, Meg Hourihan, Liz Lawley, Dorothea Salo, Halley Suitt, Gina Trapani, and Jill Walker. Recent post titles: “simulating women”, “social construction of technology”, and “libraries, tech and gender”. Despite the common interest in tech stuff, the writing is…
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Google Weirdness
I thought it would never happen to me, seeing as my blog tends to circulate around a fairly stable set of topics. But people are coming here via some really strange Google strings. For example, it seems I am in some way a mecca for the section of Australia’s criminal element looking for lock pick…
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Creative Commons: copy, remix, share
The Creative Commons “Copy Me/Remix Me” CD is out. It features a variety of music from an even wider variety of artists. Among the featured musicians, you’ll find record-at-home independents, magnatune and opsound artists, world music groups, and small town rock bands. All tracks from the CD are available in mp3 format for downloading, listening,…
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On thinking and writing
Since I am deep in the thesis completion space at the moment, I keep being surprised by the perfectly cogent fragments of writing I find buried in discarded notebooks or ‘older’ drafts. They come in handy. I’m less pleasantly surprised when ideas that seemed like epiphanies at the time (on the ferry, at 3 in…
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Ubicomp 2003
anne galloway [purse lip square jaw] is posting “live” from Ubicomp 2003. Making us all jealous, but sharing lots of interesting stuff with us as well.
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EFF: MP3 Caper
Who says the EFF is humourless? As part of their mp3 sharing awareness campaign they have produced a cool flash movie called The MP3 Caper.
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Wired Discovers Open Source
Thomas Goetz’s Wired article Open Source Everywhere unsuprisingly positions open source as efficient business practice first, an alternative to the more repressive manifestations of IP second. But I did like this pithy description of how open source might be measured: think of it as a spectrum or – better still – a rising diagonal line…
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Australian Universities on Strike
Slight case of sunburn after picketing and marching with my colleagues in support of the national action led by the NTEU (National Tertiary Education Union) today. The strikes are part of an ongoing campaign against the federal government’s “reforms” of Australian higher education, which include university funding being tied to compliance with State governance and…
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Plastic Fantastic
Toycamera.com is too, too cool (and a powerhouse of vernacular lofi avant-garde artiness as well). Here’s their opening blurb: We’re all about Plastic Cameras. Cameras called ‘Holga’, ‘Diana’, ‘Dories’, ‘Debonair’, ‘Lubitel’, ‘Banner’ ‘Snappy’ and ‘Yunon’. They’re cheap, maddening, fascinating plastic pieces of crap. Many people hate them, they think they’re junk, worthless, a waste of…
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The Semantic Web Explained
For those who are conceptually challenged by the idea of the semantic web (I include myself): The Semantic Web, today. It’s OK, it’s in pictures. Thanks to metal machine music for another excellent link.