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.
