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We offered unlimited storage, unlimited bandwidth, for ever, for free — to anybody who has something to share that belongs in a library. —Brewster Kahle, Entertainment Gathering Conference 2007 (republished as a TED Talk). The above quote is at 14:19. The crux of it is of course “something that belongs in a library”. If one [...]
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GLAMcamp NYC – Day 1 « Rock drum. …and I guess it’s going to be a while before there’s a GLAMcamp in Perth! (Tuesday evening, Freo Society headquarters, I’ll be continuing the digitising of the Society’s archives and uploading them to Commons and FreoWiki… if anyone’s interested.)
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Playing with how best to publish old Freo Society newsletters on FreoWiki.
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I have been working again this morning down at the Local History Collection at the library. The newspaper clippings’ catalogue is progressing — up to a hundred and thirty clippings so far — and proving to be quite an interesting project. This morning I got up to the end of 1953, the beginning of ’54, [...]
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I’m bored and tired this Monday morning, but still I flick through my blog feeds; I found this: [if:book: ephemera] from the Institute for the Future of the Book. It’s an interesting idea: that the inconsequential, unconsidered, printed matter of the day gives ‘the future’ (the people, that is) insight into how normal lives were [...]
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I have often thought that one of the greatest attractions for me to writing in ink, on paper, in a properly-bound book, is that where one writes the words is where they will remain, and the only place they will ever be. That’s not the case when writing on a screen: I often write a [...]
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Facebook vs. Wordpress — August 22nd, 2007, 4PM
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The last few weeks have seen a great number of my friends turn to Facebook (and, of course, I know exactly how many). It’s great, it’s exciting, it’s suddenly become so easy to organise things and we can now all talk about Facebook when we meet for a coffee at the Front; however, all is [...]
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I have been sorting through my (digital) photos lately, uploading the good ones to my website. It’s drudge-work, peaceful in its way like all drudge-work, and now and then I stumble upon a particularly nice shot, or one that evokes some pleasant memory, and so I don’t mind doing it. My idea is that this [...]
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hmwilson.archives.org.au — September 7th, 2006, 3PM
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I forgot to mention, a few weeks ago when I set it up, that the family archives now have an online home at hmwilson.archives.org.au. It’s for family only, but if that’s you then I will set up your account; just email me. I’m jolly excited about going back to Perth this summer and working on [...]
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It seems better to not take any photos at all, or at least not to incorporate them into this text. They break up the flow (mental, not typographical, although they do that too) and distract one from reading (and me from writing, which is more to my point — nobody reads this). I’ll still take [...]
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