Archive for August, 2008
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Actually, it's not dead. It's alive and kicking. Mike talks about it here. We do not like to be offended. We do not like to be different. Ken talks about being different here. Yeah, but no.
I suppose we should be grown ups, as Ken suggests. I suppose we should protect ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
I've been writing a paper about literacy online, and I keep getting really really cross at attempts to censor the internet. There's all this talk about 'protecting the children' and blocking unsavory images, or anything that offends someone's sensibilities. But I really don't think that censoring these things will do ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
I've been reading up (again) on Project Xanadu again for MWT ((Mobile Workforce Technologies)). This forms part of the history of hypertext. But I always feel a dis-ease at some of the concepts embodied in that 'proposal'. According to the page at Wikipedia, one of the 17 Rules of Xanadu ...
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
I often wonder about the way people use their computers. It's almost like they are arcane instruments that magically make information available with very little input from us.
A new e-mail message, for instance, may announce its arrival as we’re glancing over the latest headlines at a newspaper’s site. The result ...
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Funniest thing I've read all day. In amongst dealing with lots of (exactly the same) news reports about the Beijing Ticketing Scam for my paper on Online Reading (almost finished), I came across this little gem from Adrianne Pecotic, executive director of Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT):
but movie ...
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