One thing I’ve yet to really catch up on this week is the second Phase of the World Summit on the Information Society which was held in Tunis last week. The Dag Hammarsköld Library mentions that there is a Tunis committment. More WSIS information in a variety of languages, official WSIS site and IFLA address […]
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Published by November 23rd, 2005 in General, Associations, Conferences and Open Source. 0 CommentsNot entirely surprising proposed reforms from federal Education Minister, Brendan Nelson to make Australia’s higher education system more US-like (from The Australian) -
[…] reforms that would encourage students to do generalist first degrees at outer-suburban and regional campuses before entering elite graduate schools at the nation’s sandstone universities.
The Education Minister predicted that under the […]
Overseas readers may be interested in Australia’s proposed new “anti-terror” laws, namely Anti-Terrorism Bill (No. 2) 2005 which is currently moving its way through Parliament.
Of interest in particular is the definition of sedition (Schedule 7, proposed amendment to S 30A of the Crimes Act 1914):
seditious intention means an intention to effect any of […]
One of the side-effects of the PC blowing up is that I got to recycle my old dust-gathering PC box and upgrade it. My old box was made with a dizzying array of salvaged, recycled, refurbished and purchased parts. No wonder nothing ever really quite worked on it.
With the now-freshly-upgraded box, I go to […]
Technology is smarter than we think. It always has a knack of dying in threes, which is pretty smart. The last couple of weeks have been frustrating, technology-wise. Our digital camera malfunctioned a couple of months ago, necessitating repairs that would cost more than a new camera. So, we bought a new one.
Yesterday, a […]
Cheers to Walt Crawford for his article in the latest Cites and Insights on Life Trumps Blogging [note: PDF]. He notes:
“Early on, during the shiny new toy phase of blogging, there was a reason to make that effort, to find something to blog about every day: People had to explicitly visit your site to […]
Register your interest for NLS2006
Published by November 1st, 2005 in General and Conferences. 0 CommentsYes, it’s over a year away, but there is plenty of action between now and December 2006. I’m talking about NLS of course! You can now register your interest, which puts you on a mailing list to receive lots of useful information from the committee about what’s happening at the conference and when.
The finishing […]
