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words are bullets here as well

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Still very quiet on the library and tech reading front. I am reading more lit (and trying to write other lit articles) and still focussing more on the other blog – I even have a post on Sarsaparilla this week, on the TV show Big Love.
However, I have some writing to report, a piece up [...]

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it’s probably been there 4evah

Thursday, July 27, 2006

I don’t know how long this has been happening for, but over at the Guardian’s mega-blog, Comment Is Free, posts are digg-able, del.icio.us taggable and Technorati-searchable. Roll on Australian broadsheets, with your online community….It looks as though the user-moderated comment function on the Guardian blog site is still in place, so that must be proving [...]

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some more of me links

Wednesday, June 7, 2006

Jonathan Bennett of CNET News.com reported a couple of weeks ago from the World Wide Web 2006 conference in Edinburgh that the Semantic Web is ready to go, now that SPARQL is close to implementation. Link via Martin Lessard of Zeroseconde.
Here’s a journo trying to be funny about blogs – actually it is rather snappy [...]

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hardly an atomised blogger, Guy Rundle

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Wow, hurrah for our venerable leader James F. About time The Age pulled their finger out and employed someone who knows exactly what he’s doing.
And apart from his blog networks which support up to 10,000 bloggers at a throw, it’s not hard to see why he would be appointed online community editor for a [...]

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not called MySpace for nothing, says Hammersley

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Guardian techie Ben Hammersley was scathing recently about the assumption that bloggers are a captive market for advertising. This link, from his blog, Dangerous Precedent, speaks for itself:
The Media Guardian podcast this week has Emily Bell, editor in chief of Guardian Unlimited musing on the madness that is Rupert Murdoch’s buyout of MySpace, and ITV’s [...]

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