Craig Bellamy

Internet censorship is back again on the agenda; most notably in Australia where the government plans to install a Chinese-style firewall to block certain sites. Australia has often taken a draconian lead in this area and research and experience suggests that filtering doesn't work on a state level (for a ...

Here is a campaign in Australia at the moment from that great service GetUp. It is to prevent government censorship of the Internet. Thanks to Gabriel B for the link. Only a massive public outcry will make the Government see sense on this issue. That's why we're taking a moment to ...

The JISC and the US's National Endowment for the Humanities are pleased to announce they will be funding a second round of Transatlantic Digitisation grants. This pre-announcement is being made so that potential applicants can start developing the necessary partnerships. The call will be issued in mid December, with a closing ...

Internet users spend a lot of time going from one site to the next, keeping up with a variety of friends and interests. Flock pulls all of your favorite people, places and content together in a convenient view and delivers a more personal experience of the web, where its users ...

The University of California Transliteracies Project and UC Santa Barbara Social Computing Group announce the "Social Computing in 2020" Bluesky Innovation Competition." What will social computing technologies and practices be like in the year 2020? ELIGIBLE: Undergraduate or graduate students anywhere in the world. AWARDS: 1st prize, $3000 USD; 2nd prize, $1000, 3rd ...

(Thanks to the Arts and Humanities eScience support centre at King's for the link) The Aus-e-Lit project aims to address the eResearch needs of researchers involved in the study of Australian literature and Australian print culture. AustLit is a non-profit collaboration between the National Library of Australia and twelve Universities. It ...

(from Cathy Davidson HASTAC; thanks to Torsten R for the link) Jeremiah Owyang, whose blog is Web Strategy by Jeremiah, posted these numbers on November 3, his comparative analysis of the social networking of Barack Obama's campaign and John McCain's and their relative followers. Pretty interesting! Here's the link for the ...

Five centuries of unique resources for learning, teaching and research The JISC Digitisation programme is founded upon the need to build significant e-resources from some of the UK’s greatest collections in a wide variety of formats – sound, images, journals, moving pictures, newspapers and much else. Using the latest technology available, ...

An archival project that aims to preserve 'endangered languages' from across Australia and the Pacific region in a massive database has been rewarded with a major e-research award presented to researchers in the University of Melbourne’s School of Languages and Linguistics. The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered ...

(It doesn't matter what medium; one thing remains true. Assume your audience are idiots!) Dear Craig , As a supporter of the Kevin07 campaign, I wanted you to be the first to hear about my new website: KevinPM.com.au I'll be using the site to speak frankly with you about the big challenges facing ...

The JISC are pleased to announce the publication of a study on Digital Preservation Policies which can be downloaded in PDF format from http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/jiscpolicyfinalreport.aspx A major business driver in all universities and colleges over the past decade has been harnessing digital content and electronic services and the undoubted benefits in terms ...

From the Guardian. A year ago Mark Zuckerberg was riding high as CEO of the world's largest social network, Facebook, with his company valued at as much as $15bn (£9.5bn). Twelve months later, things look a little different. Not only are some fans claiming disenchantment with the site but, perhaps more ...

This academic social networking site may be of interest.  It seems to be fairly popular, although it lacks *sparkle*.

Queer @ King’s is an interdepartmental and interdisciplinary research group that has been operating in the School of Humanities since 2003, often with the support of the Annual Fund. Already an important feature in the research culture of the University of London for colleagues interested in gender and sexuality, Queer ...

Thursday 6 November, London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, Room 274/5 (Stewart House), 17:30 - 19:30 Speaker: Martin Mueller (Northwestern) on “The Importance of Not-Reading?” A century ago the German nonsense poet Christian Morgenstern wrote a poem about text-condensing spectacles. Referring to itself as ...

From James Norman (Johnstown, Pennsylvania) Here in Johnstown Pennsylvania on the weekend the queues stretched four blocks down the street, past the abandoned factories and old coal mill, a sea of flag waving Republicans had gathered to hear Sarah Palin at the War Memorial. Since her entry onto the national stage as ...

(This was sent via James Norman; a journalist friend of mine on the campaign trail in the US) I got a job working construction for the Johnstown company But lately there ain't been much work on account of the economy -- The River, Bruce Springsteen "Man this is the most corrupt town in America... ...

Andrew Garton, a good friend of mine from Melbourne, is in Graz Austria hosting a art exhibition. Here is some of his recent work. NOTHINGKNOWN -Version 3 from andrew garton on Vimeo.

A gig happening in Australia at the moment. Enjoy!