Monthly Archive for May, 2009

Bookmarks for May 20th through May 24th

These are my links for May 20th through May 24th:

  • Team Based-Learning – Canadian project site for team based learning which looks like it is a very useful way to approach collaborative work and reflective practice.
  • [Beta] How do you design? – Web project come prototype of a book all about design. Well, a collection of articles. Looks very interesting and a lot of very good material.
  • MERLin: Constellations 2.6 – A hypercard stack/tool that was developed to let you annotate and tag video. Comes from anthropology. An oldie but a goodie.
  • Leighton Pierce – Someone who concentrates/specialises in only making beautiful, semi-abstract (affective, impressionistic) short works.
  • Narrative Exploration in Expanded Cinema – Video documentation from a major recent conference on expanded cinema. With the web and all expanded cinema is finding new legs (rather than sprocket holes).
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Roos and Ryanne


Ryanne has put up the video she shot last Saturday. Seth and I took her and Jay out to Westerfolds as they wanted to see some kangaroos. It’s a metropolitan park only a few k’s out of the city, on the river, and I mountain bike there quite a bit so knew we’d have a good chance of seeing the local mob. Struck gold. Not the usual small group but I think the entire local mob of 40 or 50 were all together lolling around out of the wind. They were toey, so we couldn’t get that close. Reckon might be the highlight of Ryanne’s Australian adventure.

Tags: Lifes Little Pieces

Bookmarks for May 18th through May 20th

These are my links for May 18th through May 20th:

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Bookmarks for May 13th through May 17th

These are my links for May 13th through May 17th:

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Bookmarks for May 7th through May 12th

These are my links for May 7th through May 12th:

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Venture

Melissa documents the tenor of rejection for a book project. Perhaps with the realisation that in spite of publisher’s self congratulatory trumpeting of their importance to ensure quality, rigour and can best disseminate knowledge they are, at the end of the day, an older form of venture capitalism. Sales always trumps content, which is why it is best to remain bemused that we want to use commercial publication as a benchmark for quality.

Tags: computinghumanities, practice

Bookmarks for May 6th through May 7th

These are my links for May 6th through May 7th:

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Bookmarks for May 5th through May 6th

These are my links for May 5th through May 6th:

  • Camcorder – Very brief history and overview of the camcorder but has a nice list of references about the impact of the camcorder on tv and documentary practice.
  • Regular Guy (RegularGuyAus) on Twitter – Twitter user who posts YouTube hosted videos of themselves narrating what I think are customer service reviews of what I think are Melbourne businesses.
  • happn.in melbs (happn_in_melbs) on Twitter – not sure what exactly this is, I think it is using twitter to filter twitter content about what is being discussed by twitterers who are Melbourne based. Don't know if this is autoamted, clever mice, or a person. Dominated by celeb, pop media stuff and links to a related web site.
  • Gilles Deleuze's Bergsonian Film Project
  • Open Video Conference: June 19-20 – Conference in New York in June 2009 about open video.
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Hyperwords

Hyperwords is a firefox extension that provides a contextual menu for webpages. The things are like look up a term (dictionary, wikipedia, etc), or to share something via twitter, blog, email and so on. It is now taken for granted but the way we can now weave pieces of software into the network really is extraordinary.

Tags: Network Literacy