Digital Research and Publishing

"There is a lot of discussion these days about free music and the decline of the power and influence of the major record labels. However, I would argue that music has always been free in one form or another, throughout history and that the relationship between the artists and their fans - the artists and their patrons is what really matters.

Record labels are a relatively recent phenomenon in the history of music. Perhaps they have seen their useful life as a component of the music business, perhaps not. They have been helpful in injecting capital into the marketplace and promoting artists on a scale never before seen. They have provided a vehicle for artists to go to market that was quite effective in its day.

But music at it's core is entertainment and a form of creative expression that transcends language and cultural barriers and always will. If we focus on music as a cultural phenomenon, perhaps we can find some answers to the questions about the future."

Welcome to the Toolkit for the Impact of Digitised Scholarly Resources.

This toolkit, first assembled in 2009, is an effort to give a variety of people interested in understanding ways of measuring the impacts that their online scholarly resources are having.

This resource also contains a report on scholarly resources

Archive of Australan newspapers generated by the National Library of Australia. Cool repository!

Graphical collaboration space with voice chat.

About Thinkature

Thinkature brings the richness of in-person, visual communication to the web by placing instant messaging inside a visual workspace. Use it as a collaboration environment, a meeting room, a personal web-based whiteboard, or something entirely new.

Periodic table of popular, influential and notorious typefaces.

Internet researcher David Gauntlett's site released in May 2009 for a forthcoming book in 2010.

Open source software for mind mapping and brainstorming, GTD, knowledge management and sharing, awards winner, compatible with Freemind/Mindmanager.

Using feeds to track social software

Analysis of piratebay prosecution.

Walter Benjamin the Task of Translator. studies Benjamin translation (cited by N Katherine Hayles in Ch 4 of My mother was a computer)

Ask questions, get *live* answers from your network! Aardvark finds the perfect person to answer any question in real-time.

Howard Rheingold, author of The Virtual Community" and Smart Mobs, presents a weekly video about cyberculture, new media, consciousness, art, pedagogy, extraterrestrial anthropology and gardening