What the Hashtag?! - the user-editable encyclopedia for Twitter hashtags
What the Hashtag?! - the user-editable encyclopedia for Twitter hashtags
arts-humanities.net: Digital Humanities and Arts | Engage with digital learning and research
Engage with digital learning and research
Abstract
While current computing practice abounds with innovations like online auctions, blogs, wikis, twitter, social networks and online social games, few if any genuinely new theories have taken root in the corresponding “top” academic journals. Those creating computing progress increasingly see these journals as unreadable, outdated and irrelevant. Yet as technology practice creates, technology theory is if anything becoming even more conforming and less relevant. We attribute this to the erroneous assumption that research rigor is excellence, a myth contradicted by the scientific method itself. Excess rigor supports the demands of appointment, grant and promotion committees, but is drying up the wells of academic inspiration. Part I of this paper chronicles the inevitable limits of what can only be called a feudal academic knowledge exchange system, with trends like exclusivity, slowness, narrowness, conservatism, self–involvement and inaccessibility. We predict an upcoming social upheaval in academic publishing as it shifts from a feudal to democratic form, from knowledge managed by the few to knowledge managed by the many. The technology trigger is socio–technical advances. The drive will be that only democratic knowledge exchange can scale up to support the breadth, speed and flexibility modern cross–disciplinary research needs. Part II suggests the sort of socio–technical design needed to bring this transformation about.
Libraries of the Future : JISC
JISC campaigns are an attempt to initiate conversations about the issues that are emerging as central to the sector. ‘Libraries of the Future’ is the first such debate. It attempts to explore the issues around the enormous impact of ICT on the academic library and to look forward to ensure that libraries – however they may continue to evolve - remain at the heart of academic life. JISC invites you to take part - both online and in person." />
HOW TO: Use Wikis for Business Projects
One of the best web tools available to businesses for enabling teamwork and collaboration is the wiki. Few things speak more to staying in the flow of one’s work than just clicking “Edit This Page” where you see something that needs to be written or re-written. Though Wikis have been around since the 90s, their potential for business collaboration has made them more popular in the business world over the past few years.
The Power of Twitter’s "Suggested User" List - NYTimes.com
Mr. Rogers had many neighbors, but was always looking to add more. On Facebook, people who have hundreds of “friends” still collect them avidly: “Will you be my friend, we already have 15 in common?”
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Twitter, the social-networking site of the moment, traffics in a different currency — “followers,” who presumably are loyal to you, fascinated by you, enthralled by you. Imagine what you could accomplish with an army of followers, the lands you could conquer!
Sysomos | In-Depth Look Inside the Twitter World
Twitter Growth in 2009
Twitter "Twitpocalypse" Snags Mac, iPhone Apps
Twitter's Epic Fail in Iphone Apps
Dell Makes $3 Million From Twitter Sales
Dell makes $3million from Twitter links.
A.P. in Deal to Share Investigative Work From Nonprofit Groups - NYTimes.com
AP to publish non profit investigative journalism. Internet based system for members to receive AP material makes it easier to share and offer new products such as the investigative journalism pieces
PC Pro: News: Dell makes $3 million from Twitter sales
Dell profit from Twitter
Though the $3 million sounds like a drop in the ocean given the $12.3 billion of revenue the company earned during the first quarter of this year, it further bolsters Twitter's case for charging businesses.
The social-networking site has floated this possibility in the past, but was immediately shot down by Dell which claimed "if it becomes complicated and costly, our instinct would be to move elsewhere."
Slashdot Technology Story | What Open Source Shares With Science
Science as an allegory of open source
Apple Patent To Safeguard 911 Cellphone Calls
Apple to patent emergency phone call system that would enable users to make emergency calls despite phone being out of battery - amazingly helpful!
The political blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. election
Patterns of political bloggers - contrast and interaction between liberal and conservative blogs in 2004 US Presidential Election
Digital rights management for content distribution
Analysis of current DRM model (obstacles, legal implications) and how it will grow in future.
Digital rights management for the online music business
Comparing the usage of digital rights management systems in the music, film, and print industry
Analysis of effectiveness of DRM in the protection of print, music and film industry and how it will be enforced in the future
Literature in the digital environment
ailin_bezzo 's List: Literature in the digital environment
200m members ready for Facebook name grab - web - Technology - smh.com.au
Facebook usernames
China defends net filtering software amid outcry - web - Technology - smh.com.au
Australia's future? Welcome to the subternet.
Staying alive in an age of digital piracy the Bee Gees way - BizTech
World Copyright Summit and the Lies of the Copyright Industry
World Copyright Summit
Twitter "Twitpocalypse" Snags Mac, iPhone Apps
Twitter's Epic Fail in Iphone Apps
Dell Makes $3 Million From Twitter Sales
Dell makes $3million from Twitter links.
50 Useful Twitter Tools for Writers and Researchers | Online College Degree
50 Useful Twitter Tools for Writers and Researchers
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Twitter is a wonderful social tool, but did you know that it’s also a goldmine of information? You can use Twitter to get the latest scoop on current events as well as topical interests. Read on, and you’ll learn about 50 tools that will help you use Twitter to get the information you seek.
The Ultimate List of Twitter Tools | The Social Media Guide
Good categorised list of twitter tools at May 2009
Gapmind.org - Beautiful Statistics
'Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.
We are a modern “museum” that helps making the world understandable, using the Internet. '
a free web source that provides accessible and accurate information with respect to global economy with the goal of establishing an online near factual graphic analogy of where each country is at. pretty remarkable, really, from an academic publishing perspective. be sure to watch the video
Somewhat disturbing.
7 Top Twitter Topic Trackers
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For a service that simply takes 140 characters of input and then blasts them out in front of potentially hundreds of thousands of readers at a time, there has been a lot of work by people and businesses to figure out the best way to re-interpret and re-group Twitter posts in to meaningful categories, trends and threads.
On the Street and On Facebook:The Homeless Stay Wired | Wall Street Journal
The digital lifestyle of one homeless man shows how deeply computers and the Internet have permeated society. WSJ Online
Pirate Bay Judge Indeed Handpicked | TorrentFreak
For some reason, I suspect controversy with respect to the judge's bias is unlikely to help those poor Pirate Bay folks out much... it looks as though an appeal is more likely now, though.
I meant to post this one; the assertion that twitter is facilitating a classist elitism in newspaper journalism is an interesting one. Could the same be said of digital publishing/academic publishing period, or would such an elaboration be tautological?
The Twitterverse v0.9 by @BrianSolis & @Jess3
Image of all the Twitter tools
How Publishing Really Works: Guest Post: How Book Design Affects Readability
On fonts, design and readability
Web 3.0 or Not, There's Something Different About 2009
On trends in web technology in 2009
COPYLEFT, RIGHT, AND THE IN-BETWEEN: IP AND REMIX CULTURE
One of the events happening as part of Creative Sydney - a festival celebrating the wealth and diversity of the city’s creative talents from May 27- June 12.
Main Page - Open Access Directory
A compendium of simple factual lists about open access (OA) to science and scholarship.
Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook
As people are using mobile devices to publish events in times of crisis, managers of corporations are finding it difficult to know how to respond.
BlackBerry broadens its range of services | The Australian
WHEN Bono strides on to the stage at the Nou Camp stadium in Barcelona on June 30, Jim Balsillie will be a happy man.
Social notworking: there goes our people skills - web - Technology
Bold chapter in a Melbourne's life | The Australian
WHILE the City of Literature sleeps, Elliot Perlman is writing. The internationally acclaimed author would prefer to be asleep, but he suffers from insomnia. As such, he finds the quiet of his study and the suburban Melbourne street outside a conducive setting in which to work.
Uni journal to stake out long-form turf | The Australian
AS Melbourne-based public affairs journal The Monthly remains preoccupied with its continuing internal strife, to the north a rival is quietly eyeing its intellectual turf.
Facebook And Twitter Hunt for Revenue | Epicenter | Wired.com
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facebook and Twitter have helped make social networking a household word. Now they need to make money. Efforts to monetize
Sockington: the cat that Tweets - web - Technology - smh.com.au
Cats on twitter??? Is this just drivel? Or creativity? (In relation to last week's readings) Demostrating the fact that online writing is creative and not mindless???
Newspapers online a 'fast track' to history - web - Technology - smh.com.au
The National Library of Australia aims to collate 4 million regional and metropolitan newspaper pages into a single searchable internet portal by 2011.
a more thorough analysis of the downturn in newspaper journalism in the US. Will SF be the first major city in the US without a daily newspaper?
more on the decline of the US newspaper business. For those of you who have read it, doesnt it remind you of Andrew Keane, The Cult of the Amateur, with such overwhelming pessimistic stats and forecasts?
The Internet is Killing America's Free Press and Why It Matters
Interesting discussion about the impact of the internet on American print and broadcast journalism
Wolfram Alpha, yet another pretender to Google's throne. -Slate Magazine
Wolfram Alpha, the latest alleged Google killer, is not a search engine. Rather, physicist and software entrepreneur Stephen Wolfram's long-awaited new Web project is a "computational knowledge engine." The difference is important.
Facebook Gives Major Boost to OpenID - PC World
Facebook is supporting OpenID to simplify how people register and log in to its social networking site.
Dare to Be Stupid - The thing about e-readers like the Kindle
A YA fantasy author on Kindle not changing the world.
Switching off: life without mobile phones - Management - Executive Style
It's a bit old but I've been meaning to add it for ages
I read this in the SMH first but this is the author's blog.
"We were joking in the office that if this growth rate continues week over week, we'll run out of people on planet Earth to sign up to Twitter by the end of the year," Biz Stone, Twitter Co-founder
China Blocks Micro-Messaging Site Plurk. Is Twitter Next?
As micro-messaging spreads overseas, the threat of censorship looms in certain parts of the world. Yesterday Plurk, a micro-messaging service that competes with ...
The decline and fall of books - Times Online
More doom-and-gloom-mongering, though I'm not sure I'm convinced by this argument. Seems to be more about the death of the bookshop than the death of the book.
New search engines aspire to supplement Google - CNN.com
More about Wolfram Alpha and other new search engines tipped to overtake google.
Kindle DX: larger format may rekindle publishers’ hopes in the future - Times Online
Break free of this world wide delusion - Times Online
A journalist who doesn't like the internet.
How the mobile phone became an 'instrument for life' - Technology - smh.com.au
Answer to absolutely everything gets closer - BizTech - Technology - smh.com.au
Wolfram Alpha, the new search engine.. Will be interesting to see how it differs and advances on google...
Hackers launch phishing attack on Facebook - BizTech - Technology - smh.com.au
How the mobile phone became an 'instrument for life' - Technology - smh.com.au
How The Kindle Now Lets You Steal This Blog
Amazon's new blog publishing program has a major flaw: it lets anyone steal other people's blogs and charge readers for them.
Why it's good that Facebook makes us infantile | Technically Incorrect - CNET News
Student hoaxes world's media with fake Wiki quote - web - Technology
Social notworking: there goes our people skills - web - Technology - smh.com.au
Reporter to NY Times Publisher: You Erased My Career - Thomas Crampton
Here's a story worth following for those interested in digital publishing - Journalist Thomas Crampton's work for the international Herald Tribune, which was previously available internet wide disappeared when the NYT, the IHT's owner deleted the IHT site as part of the merger... makes for interesting discussion about the ephemerality (tis a word, no?) of digital publishing
Exact Editions: Why the iPhone is a better Reading Environment I
On reading experience on iPhone
Lawmaker Defends Imprisoning Hostile Bloggers | Wired
Rep. Linda Sanchez responded Wednesday to Threat Level's tirade against her proposed legislation outlawing hostile electronic speech.
Titled "Reconnecting Bits and Atoms", this article from 2001 is a little dated but still a very lively, well-illustrated, and informative survey of IT trends in the early "noughties".
Hollywood v the $30 DVD copier - Articles - Home Entertainment - Digital Life
First Issue Blog » Blog Archive » Amazon’s New Kindle DX a Dud
Review of New Kindle DX
Hyped search engine Wolfram Alpha gets its first public showing |Technology |guardian.co.uk
Hyped new search engine Wolfram Alpha says it can offer answers to factual questions - but will it be enough to convince people to use it?
Interesting viewing Digital Literacy debate
Lots of interesting free events
free event
Sound familiar? Apple launches a revolution - and then gets overtaken |Business |The Observer
It happened when the Mac brought a mouse to every desktop. Now, with the iPhone, it's happening again, write Richard Wray and Bobbie Johnson
Twitter.co.uk - the tale of a forgotten domain |Media |guardian.co.uk
Ever been to Twitter.co.uk by mistake? You're one of about 3,000 people who do exactly that every day - and that might not be a problem for Twitter if it actually owned the domain twitter.co.uk. By Jemima…
Beginner's guide to Google Adwords - BizTech - Technology - smh.com.au
Twitter Magnet Poetry | The Inspiration Room™ | Daily
Could Twitter poetry be something like Japanese Haiku? Writing poetry on Twitter, within 140 words.
Anthropology: The Art of Building a Successful Social Site - ReadWriteWeb
This is an interesting article on building a successful site with anthropological theory.
YouTube really delivers | smh.com.au
A British man helped deliver his baby son by following clips on YouTube after his wife went into labour early.
Amazon Acquires Stanza iPhone e-Book App - 4/27/2009 4:04:00 PM - Publishers Weekly
Amazon Acquires Stanza iPhone e-Book App
Plato's Aesthetics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
ctl + F : 'Form (of bed, of table)' for the relevant section.
Interesting how the mp3 incorporates this idea of the imperfect representation of universal concepts into it's structure, anticipating that the human ear won't be able to hear most of the music anyway, and therefore editing much of it out.
Unlike Plato, however, it doesn't deem this perversion as evil, shifting the power and value from the essential nature of what the mp3 represents (ie pure music) to how it's used (ie in a dirty, noisy pub).
Fun.
You can access the documents stored in My Office anywhere, anytime.
Internet's web to get wider and wider - web - Technology - smh.com.au
'Google, says Pancino, is like a highway and cannot be held responsible for the conduct of bad drivers.'
Is Google endeavouring to make its search engine like some enormous intellectual property wiki?
It must be nice to be able to make the rules up as you go along.
Still, it seems like a clever loophole by which they might disassociate themselves from TPB.
Wikipedia Art dispute pits artists against Wikimedia Foundation - Ars Technica
Wikipedia uses plenty of copyrighted material and trademarks under the doctrine of fair use. But a trademark infringement lawsuit against a couple of artists would put the Wikimedia Foundation on the opposite side of the fair use fight.
Ithaka :: University Publishing In A Digital Age
On the need to rethink limiting academic publishing to papers only and promote the value of online tools.
The Random House Group Looks To 'Book And Beyond'
This is the latest in a series of digital initiatives launched by The Random House Group, including an online toolkit for authors to create their own web pages; a 'browse and search' widget and an online recommendation service for children's books.
Interview with HarperCollins chief executive Victoria Barnsley about ebooks.
Shotton_Semantic_publishing_evaluation.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Recent developments in Web technology can be used for semantic enhancement of scholarly journal articles, by aiding publication of data and metadata and providing ‘lively’ interactive access to content. Such semantic enhancements are already being undertaken by leading STM publishers, and automated text processing will help these enhancements become affordable and routine.
Publisher, editor and author all have primary roles in that process; an incremental approach is needed. Publication of data and metadata to the Web make possible added-value ‘ecosystem services’; semantic publishing will bring substantial benefits to scholarly communication.
