Let's Hope This One Goes Somewhere. Special Interest Group About Library Use of eBooks “From the announcement, 'The Open eBook Forum (www.openebook.org), the trade and standards association for the eBook industry, today announced the creation of a Library Special Interest Group (SIG). The group was formed to enable publishers, eBook resellers, DRM, software and hardware […]

Leaving academia. Some alternately wrenching and hopeful but always brilliant writing on leaving academia by Invisible Adjunct and the Happy Tutor (see also comments to this post—he’s just knockin’ ’em outta the park today). While Rana talks about the ludicrous jobhunting assumptions she’s run into. If you’ve been there too, drop by… [Caveat Lector] hmm, […]

Robots digitizing books at Stanford according to this John Markoff report. And the Internet Archive has sent 80 tons of books form the Kansas City Library to Hyderabad to be scanned manually. It now costs as little as $1 to scan in books, and Stanford reported a 50% increase in circulation when it digitized its […]

Melbourne DAC. The 5th International Digital Arts and Culture Conference blog has been tracking presentations. In the blog, Torill Mortensen has some good posts and Deena Larsen has been taking lots of notes, but they take some time and effort to wade through. [Purse Lip Square Jaw] Yah, it looks like a great conference, Thanks […]

The steam-powered drum machine. The steam-powered drum machine – an astonishing extract from the journal of Charles Franklin, the founder of the London Museum of Techno. Written in 1894, Franklin describes a steam-powered drum machine and what may have been the world's first rave. “Driven by the thunderous rhythms of Hoovenaars tremendous “drum machine” the […]

Oxford University Job: Educational Interoperability Standards Specialist. Quote: “We are looking for someone with proven experience in XML, open standards and e-learning. If you have these plus the drive and initiative to make Oxford a leading world-player in this field, we should like to hear from you” [Serious Instructional Technology] well i applied to a […]

nice work!. Just love this photolog from Brisbane by Neil Cook. This is a great shot. I just love the Brisbane architecture… [Junk for Code] i like the river taxi personally, brisbane is a cool city

OneWorld Finland and KEPA organise an International Seminar on Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) in Developing Countries Thursday, May 22nd , 2003 At The Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration – Hanken Auditorium Maximum, II floor Arkadiank. 22, Helsinki. Free/Libre and Open Source Software in Developing Countries – advantages and obstacles PROGRAMME 09.30 […]

Dear friends and collegues, We are happy to announce the Digital Pluralism – UNESCO Digital Arts Award 2003 at IAMAS Please find our website and instructions for submissions in 10 languages at: http://www.iamas.ac.jp/unesco_award 1.) AWARD: The award is organized in collaboration between IAMAS Gifu, Japan and the UNESCO Digi-Arts Portal , Paris. The award consists […]

War is the major social issue that has pushed all others to the side since shortly after the turn of the millennium. Those who believed that more peaceful times would follow the end of the Cold War were forced to learn a lesson: War remains the father of all things, even though its appearance, its […]