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I’ve been following (rather sporadically) some of the information about copyright restructuring (aka reform) in New Zealand. Unfortunately, at the moment I feel that I’ve been rather too busy to be proactive and I have turned into a reactive person. Over the weekend I discovered that the National Library of New Zealand had been trawling the [...] Last week at our Nga Taonga Cluster Teacher Only Day Dorothy Burt challenged the audience to Google themselves occasionally. I couldn’t determine, from the nervous titter, whether many people actually had but here I am ready to say that I regularly Google myself. And what a fascinating interweb life I have led. The first Google Link [...] Who owns your network? I have to be really careful here. During my work week I exchange hats on a regular basis. Some of the time I am teacher who wants access now … and then I am technician with lofty views about security … and then I am subverter – I want to get to [...] We’ve taken it for granted for years. The humble click to move through an interface. Check out this proof of concept website that doesn’t use mouse clicks for navigation. http://www.dontclick.it/ We were happy customers of Quicksilver Internet for several years. We went with QSI because they were a group of Kiwi upstarts who seemed to care about customers. It used to be (up until about six months ago) that you would ring up with an issue and if they couldn’t answer your queries within a [...] According to the Wikipedia the RFCs (Request for Comments) “are a series of memoranda encompassing new research, innovations, and methodologies applicable to Internet technologies”. Many of them are now obselete but there are a few which still have something to offer. One that is still important, despite not being updated since 1995, is RFC 1855. This [...] The Citizendium is a project that aims to create “a “citizens’ compendium of everything,” is an experimental new wiki project. The project, started by a co-founder of Wikipedia, aims to improve on that model by adding “gentle expert oversight” and requiring contributors to use their real names.” from Citizendium Main Page This is an interesting development [...] On the long drive home yesterday, I heard a news report that I just had to follow up today. Internet users in New Plymouth and Auckland are the keenest in the world to find recipes for making bombs, according to a leading counter-terrorism expert. – NZHerald What does this mean? According to Australia’s Herald Sun Australians are [...] Yes, I am still here. Just somewhat lost it all. Image from the amazing webcomic xkcd. Check it out! The entity that we know today as the internet was born out af a desire to connect people together via their computers. Initially almost everything that was completed was text based and users needed to know a lot of commands and the order to type in these commands. As time moved on, graphical browsers were [...] |
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