Archive for March, 2008
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Aussie uptake of Facebook soars by 1000% in the past year [Computerworld]
"In February 2007, there were 220,000 active user accounts. Today that stands at 2.6 million. That is a 1081.8 percentage increase. Worldwide, there are 67 million active Facebook users. The top countries ahead of Australia are the US, UK..."
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Australia has once again got an R18+ category for videogames on the discussion table. However, as Asher Moses reports in The Age: In the gaming community at least, South Australian Attorney-General Michael Atkinson has become the Darth Vader of politics with his opposition to R18+ ratings for games. But ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Blogging boosts your social life: research [ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)]
"Blogging can help you feel less isolated, more connected to a community and more satisfied with your friendships, both online and face-to-face, new Australian research has found." (It's worth noting that these were MySpace blogs...) (tags: myspace blog socialnetworking)
Cloverfield Showreel ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Web 2.0 remains one of those wonderful catch-all phrases which is employed in so many different ways to support a host of different ideas. Rather than leave the term to gain even further layers of hype as it rolls down the digital hillside, a new special edition of First Monday ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Over the last month or so I've been slowly re-reading Kim Stanley Robinson's epic Mars trilogy; I'm a little way into the second book (Green Mars), but my head is still full of the magnificent world-building that Robinson manages in the first installment, Red Mars. Also, oddly enough, I've ...
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Saturday, March 1st, 2008
Girls 'more skilled on computers' [BBC NEWS | UK]
"Girls are more confident than boys about using a computer, a survey of more than 1,000 children suggests. The research by the Tesco Computers for Schools programme found girls were more likely than boys to ..."
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Will podcasting my lectures ...
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