Last night I attended my second Regional meeting of the ALIA National Advisory Congress (NAC). An improvement on last year’s, there were many more attendees. While I did think it didn’t quite stick to the desired outcomes (we didn’t pick a success story to send to Perth), I found that some of the governance discussions were […]
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Yes, there is something very wrong with the blog - all permalinks are busted, categories don’t work, etc. Yup, it’s been broken for quite a while.
I’m going to try and put the site back together, and load all the old posts while I’m at it (the calendar shows no posts earlier than December 2004, the […]
Last weekend, we took the first of our ‘weekenders’ in Cabramatta -
“Cabramatta is less than an hour from central Sydney and is Australia’s most multicultural suburb. More than 75 per cent of Cabramatta’s residents were born overseas and 80 percent speak more than one language. Today, it is famous for capturing the colour and character […]
Broadband access, or lack of it
Published by August 9th, 2006 in General, Library technology and Australia. 3 CommentsOne of the more fiery segments of Chris Anderson’s presentation on his book The Long Tail at ALA was when several audience-members, during question time, refuted his assumption that the market would take care of access to telecommunications services, including broadband.
As if yet more proof was needed that the market doesn’t solve these problems, in […]
It’s interesting that Steven should post about discussing the personal on blogs when I was just about to discuss our plans for going away on weekends like Steven does and for visiting more of the state we live in like Jessamyn. I’ve lived in Sydney for nearly 7 years but I have barely travelled outside the […]
Although I’ve been home for 2.5 weeks now I don’t think it’s too late to fill in the rest of my trip report, or at least I hope it’s not.
At any rate, after leaving Montreal we spent just one day in San Francisco, almost solely so I could see Drawing Restraint at SFMOMA http://www.sfmoma.org/exhibitions/exhib_detail.asp?id=230 […]
The arrival of Census forms in my mailbox tonight announces the start of the statistical season. One of the first tasks I had while working in a library was to alphabetise the Census microfiche at my local public library during year 10 work experience. The Census has been a big part of my work as […]
