Merry Christmas
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007Have a fabulous festive season, wherever you are in the world!
Archive for December, 2007
Have a fabulous festive season, wherever you are in the world!
links for 2007-12-19
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007Aussie game company goes bust [NEWS.com.au] "One of Australia's biggest computer game developers, Auran Development, was placed into voluntary administration yesterday, despite recently securing multi-million dollar investments from the National Australia Bank and the federal Government.: (tags: australia games videogames) Frustrated Saudi youth take a shine to YouTube [WatchingTV Online] "YouTube has seen tens ...
CC+
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007One of the big announcements at the celebrations of Creative Commons' fifth birthday was the release of the CC+ (CCPlus) licensing arrangement which combines existing CC licenses with ability to also explicitly point to additional licensing (for example, terms for commercial use on an NC CC license). From the ...
links for 2007-12-18
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007Facebook, the Place People Go to Meet Other Scrabble Players [New York Times] I'm just delighted to see Scrabulous - the Facebook Scrabble application - get its own article in the New York Times! (Even if the article doesn't say much...) (tags: facebook socialsoftware) Narcissism thrives on the web [The Age] "In a ...
The Simpsons Go Viral … Almost
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007In a wonderful parody of the viral YouTube hit that was Noah's photo ever day for six years, The Simpsons have included this clip in the latest episode in the US: [Via Peter Black] If that doesn't amuse you, then perhaps edutainment is more to your taste, so you ...
links for 2007-12-17
Monday, December 17th, 2007Make Custom iPhone Ringtones With Garageband [Podcasting News] "Apple quietly introduced an update to Garageband that adds a cool new feature: iPhone ringtone creation. Anything you’ve got in Garageband, you can turn into a ringtone." (tags: apple iphone ringtones howto) Google Develops Wikipedia Rival [New York Times] "The project, which is in an invitation-only ...
links for 2007-12-14
Friday, December 14th, 2007YouTube makes donut boy stop thief [Australian IT] "A Dunkin' Donuts worker stopped a thief in his tracks so he would look good on YouTube." (Foucault's panopticon anyone?) (tags: youtube surveillance selfsurveillance foucault) MacArthur Series on Digital Media and Learning (it's live!) [apophenia] The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series ...
links for 2007-12-06
Thursday, December 6th, 2007World Internet Usage Statistics News and Population Stats Apparently Australia is second only to North America for internet penetration and use. (tags: australia internet stats digitalculture) The Chasers quit TV for stage [PerthNow] THE Chaser is off TV. The controversial troupe will instead do live stage shows around Australia. The boys have apparently ruled ...
The Dark Knight: Why So Serious?
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007The new poster for the 2008 Batman Begins sequel, The Dark Knight, looks really good! As you might imagine, the lead villain this time is the Joker. [Via]
links for 2007-12-04
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007Online profiles could 'splinter' our identities [NEWS.com.au] "Australians now have so many online identities that we risk a kind of multiple virtual personality disorder, a leading clinical psychologist says. The average Australian has up to 10 virtual identities – and more than 40 per cent of us lie about ..." (tags: australia ...
