Archive for the ‘personal’ Category
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
To explore, expand and expound upon the emerging Australasian Commons, the Creative Commons Australia team have organised a free one-day symposium which investigates a range of activities, programme and philosophies driving open access and the cultural commons across Australia, New Zealand and South-East Asia. I'll be there, participating ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Did I mention I've been teaching in Blade Runner's Los Angeles William Gibson's Night City Hong Kong this week? The first time I came to Hong Kong, it was like stepping into a city I'd already met - it was total immersion in the world of cyberpunk, where unashamed ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Following on from my previous post about Mars and the wonderful work of the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) project, I just had to post the image above which is of "Marshine" (sunlight reflected off of the surface of Mars) on Phobos, one of Mars' moons. You ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
I'm very pleased that the 'Beyond Broadcasting' issue of Media International Australia is out, not only because it features some excellent articles asking some great questions about the future of television in the era of digital communication, but also because it features an article of mine that I've been thinking ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Last night Emily and I enjoyed the 2008 installations for Sculpture by the Sea which is in its final few days this year. For those of you unfamiliar, this wonderful annual effort sees one of Perth's best beaches suddenly populated with all manner of installation art and sculptures for ...
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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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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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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Saying sorry to the Stolen Generations isn't the solution, but it is the beginning of a solution. Like Jean, I choose to be optimistic that this apology is an important and substantial step in the right direction for all Australians.
Update: Kevin Rudd has said sorry on behalf of all ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2008
While it hasn't really been a conscious decision, I seem to have taken a rather extended break from blogging without really intending to do so. After my last six posts were just annotated del.icio.us links I did think I should make sure the next post has a little more ...
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
As of last month, this blog is now being archived by the National Library of Australia and can thus be found in Pandora - Australia's Web Archive. I'm pleased that this blog has become a little less ephemeral, but I also thought given that the archiving process makes not only ...
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