Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Web/Blog Tools
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Area51 (A NZ site/blog focused on “up to date medical technology news with a New Zealand focus where possible.”) has a link to and a brief summary of an article in Nature about scientists using blogs and Wiki’s to share information and collaborate with others. See Wikis and Blogs by Scientists – a new way…
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AJAX seems to be flavour of the month while everyone makes up their lists of what was significant in 2005 or will be in 2006. Rachel mentions it here and here and TallSkinnyKiwi here and here. So for all of you out there looking for how to distinguish an ordinary household cleaner from Asynchronous JavaScript…
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From some reading I was doing today. Technology never escapes politics. The fiction of cyberspace is useful precisely to the extent that it allows it allows its proponents to imagine an androcentric reality in which a threatening, messy, or recalcitrant (and invariably feminized) nature never intrudes. In this respect, cyberspace is consensual primarily in its…
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See SansBlogue : Amos: Hypertext Bible Commentary all go! for Tim’s news on the Amos hypertext commentary. Go to www.bible.gen.nz to have a play online.
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The following blogs that I read have moved to new locations (mostly to WordPress or WordPress 2.0). Update your links for Musings of a Postmodern Negro and Rachel’s cre8d design blog. Rachel’s back blogging more regularly and has some good material and links up for blogging, web design and general internet thoughts.
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Interesting posting on storytelling and digital creativity at Craig’s blog – mountain masala: the hyperrhetoric of the quilt of the quilt.
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Tim finally publishes his thoughts on the interaction of RSS and commenting on blogs. Namely that the more RSS and its analogues (e.g. Atom) are used to “consume” blogs the less one is inclined to comment directly on the blog being read. A quick skim and if it’s interesing a link from your own blog…
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Tony Long (The Luddite) in his column at Wired writes on reducing the hype around technology. See Wired News: Dark Underbelly of Technology. And that’s the reason for this column: to lend a contrarian perspective to a world besotted with technology and all its bright, glittery appeal. This is not, as some of my colleagues…
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Just got round to listening to the podcast Open Source » Blog Archive » Google Sociology. Downloaded it a while back but never got around to listening to it. So I left it playing while working on some AI stuff and tuned in when things caught my interest. Google is changing the way we understand…
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In this week’s NZ Listener Russell Brown’s column “Wide Area News” is mostly dedicated to the ongoing tensions, or should that be conflict, between established providers of information (i.e. encyclopaedia publishers) and projects like Wikipedia. Some interesting points about Wikipedia and its like being open to the placement of “viral marketing.” See: NZ Listener –…