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e-news, online journals, blogs
- Global Museum
- International museum webzine - includes news items, job ads (many in the USA), bookselling, and interesting links, including a number to digital topics.
- Ariadne
- Online journal targeted principally at information science professionals in academia, but also to interested lay people. Often has thoughtful articles of general interest.
- Briefhistory footnotes
- Following up from his excellent book, "A Brief History of the Future", about the development of the internet, John Naughton maintained notes and discussions - up to 2004 but still of interest.
- gizmodo
- If you're keen on gizmos, this blog is the place to look, to keep up to date with all those whizzy new ways of connecting to everything.
- Information Technology and People
- Online journal, properly refereed articles on these topics. Wide ranging scope, eg women and IT employment.
- The Guardian Online
- Supplement every Thursday from one of the UK's leading broadsheets. A very good way of keeping up with current developments and trends.
- Cultivate-interactive
- Online magazine devoted to European projects and perspectives on new media and technology projects and issues. Sadly, it's finished now, but archive articles still good.
- DigiCULT.info
- The cultural technology newsletter from the Digicult programme, which will discuss and analyse current and future trends in several technology domains identified as key areas in the DigiCULT Report.
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- Hotwired
- Wired online
Articles
- From the very birth of the World Wide Web:
- "A simple protocol (" HTTP ") is used to allow a browser
program to request a keyword search by a remote information server."
Look at the page author at the bottom of the page: TimBL. (thanks to
Jon Pratty of the 24 hour museum
for finding this)
http://www.w3.org/Summary.html - "The End of Books" by Octave Uzanne
- and even way back in 1894, the end of printing, the arrival of the ipod and even television, Octave Uzanne's "The End of Books", which, in 1894 predicted that printing would be made obsolescent by New Technology.
As
we may think- Vannevar Bush's 1945 article presaging hyperlinks. Phew! I thought for a minute it had become accessible only to subscribers to Atlantic Monthly, which first published it, but information wants to be free ... as also in the case of
- The
computers of tomorrow
- Martin Greenberger, writing in 1964, imagining the effects of universal computing
- Who owns John Sutherland?
- On the subject of academic publishing, where the universities provide the content, at their expense, and the publishers rake in the profits.
- SHERPA: Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access
- However (see Who owns John Sutherland - above) the UK research councils have at last, six years later, boyed up by a parliamentary enquiry, rebelled - there is now a scheme for universities to set up their own online content repositories for academic publishing.
- The Domesday Project
- The classic example of technological obsolescence. The BBC's splendid Domesday Project had schoolchildren all over england compiling records of their parishes. Fifteen years later the discs are icons of the digital preservation movement. This is a lovely article by one of the original project leaders.
- Project Soup: comparing evaluations of digital collection efforts
- Jones, M, Gay, G., & Reiger. Article in d-lib magazine on the results of evaluating a number of digital libraries programmes. They conclude that organisational issues are the most significant.
- Scientific, industrial and cultural heritage: a shared approach
- Extremely interesting and enlightening article on the nature of the information that we are creating, by Lorcan Dempsey, especially the first half, on information from 'memory organisations'
- Howard Besser's homepage
- Howard Besser is Professor at New York University. His homepage is a wonderful source of links to stuff about digital technology, information, and its effects on us.
- Augmented books, knowledge and culture
- By Kim Veltman, one of the people more concerned with the effects on and potential of new technologies to affect knowledge and culture than with the technology and processes. From the Internet Society, Japan 2000.
SK articles
These have moved to: www.suzannekeene.info/publ.htm
