Browsing Month 'November, 2003'
A couple of weeks ago Justina got our fish tank going. It’s situated under the stairs that takes us out of the top floor and into the garden. The house is built into what was once a hill, so we enter on street level and walk down a set of stairs into the living area, [...]
Smart Mobs - The Next Social Revolution by Howard Rheingold Howard Rheingold’s weblog surveying mobile and wirless Internet developments. It’s a support “document” to his recent book, “Smart Mobs”. Do a search on “swarming”… Scary stuff… Interesting article about swarming in The Age and SMH.
Queensland University of Technology did a study of children’s use of galleries and museums. The study was called, Child Exhibition Art Spaces. They discovered that most, if not all kids point to the escelator and lift buttons as the most exciting feature! The curator of Queensland Art Gallery, which now sports a “child friendly interior, [...]
For Letter to Fitzroy #1. For most Australian voters the difference between political parties and their respective factions has been effectively blurred. Debate is negotiated via rhetoric. Debate is usurped by language that does not inform and media campaigns that seek to undermine public critique and memory. The powers that be would have us believe [...]
Last week we learnt that the ABC’s landmark, experimental sound program the Listening Room was to be axed. And this evening, as I was preparing to write a letter about this, I read that New Music Australia had got the chop too… The ABC’s ADLib project was where I’d published this letter: I was both [...]
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