The BBC has in many ways pushed the adoption and acceptance of the Internet in the UK. For example, it is required to provide a public whole-of-web search engine that takes users to non-BBC web sites.
Here are a few factoids that illustrate how the impact of a cultural institution like the BBC might be measured.
The […]
The Create Change web site “is an educational initiative that examines new opportunities in scholarly communication, advocates changes that recognise the potential of the networked digital environment, and encourages active participation by scholars and researchers to guide the course of change.”
The site explains why Open Access publishing is beneficial to academic researchers, teachers and students, […]
Zablon Njiru and Andrew Thompson of Murdoch University, and their research team, have developed a relatively simple, low-tech and low-cost blood test for identifying the presence of trypanosome parasites that cause African sleeping sickness.
Instead of selling their elegant innovation to a pharmaceutical company, they have published their method in an Open Access refereed journal […]
23 February 2008 – 6:45 am
Writing for Inside Higher Ed, librarian and professor Barbara Fister examines the trade-offs we make when signing up for that new Facebook, MySpace or LinkedIn account.
When you participate in such online communities, you give up some of your right to privacy and some aspects of control over the intellectual property you create in that environment. […]
5 February 2008 – 9:28 am
While searching for something else I accidentally came across this little gem on using a Wii remote as a very cheap interactive whiteboard on youtube (where else). There are also videos on Wii remote interactivity using your fingers in the air (like in Minority Report) and other inventions by Johnny.
This led me to […]