Meme of the week, oh Miley
This is a response to the MTV VMA performance by Miley Cyrus. The cartoon is a fictional super called “captain hindsight” who’s power is to point out the obvious after the fact.
Australian political scene
So if you’re reading this from Australia, you probably know there is an election on right now, that time every 3 years when shit gets real weird Canberra side… Anyway if you’re sick of how seriously broadcast news takes what…
The long tail, a tale of consumer demand.
Chris Anderson is a firm believer that bricks and mortar music and video shops are are going to go the same way as the dinosaurs. However, he argues, this is not a bad thing. Rather, the age of digital distribution…
The butterfly effect, Watts.
Watts uses the example of a mass US power outage in 1996 as an example of the unpredictability of a network. A myriad of different causes all came together to trigger a mass blackout across a portion of the US….
Beta Unsymposium 0.3, Attack of the Clones (sorry couldn’t resist)
(Imagine these words moving slowly away from your eyes.. and an orchestra… definitely an orchestra…). Darkness has come over the subject, mystery surrounds the cohort like a fog. Only a rag tag group of academics rise to challenge the enigmas…
Denham and the essay
Denham Sadler, the man, the enigma gave me his thoughts on Friday about the modern educational essay and why it isn’t working. Denham asserts that in modern education, students are asked simply to learn a list of facts and then…
Meme of the week, my soufflé!
How you are able to read this after seeing that picture is a mystery to me. Took me 5 mins to get my breath back. Perfect combination of photo and caption humour.
Unlecture a no go
My first post about lecture involved not being able to attend due to a trip to the red centre. Now the role has been swapped and it was the lecturers who were unable to attend due to industrial action. I’d…
Douglas and the hypersupermegatext
Unlike Landow’s esoteric, non precise ramblings, Douglas seems to have a lot clearer view to the past and future applications of hypertext. Just like Landow, Douglas is just as enthusiastic about hypertext evolution citing many of the original technologies that…
Orwell fans ecstatic over US government’s move to recreate ‘Big Brother’ surveillance state
A recent leak by CIA analyst turned whistle blower Edward Snowden has shown that the US government has recently taken steps to fulfill the wishes and dreams of many Orwell fans to create a surveillance state such as found in…