Tag Archive: general

Apr
22

UN opens up a global treasure of ancient documents

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This looks simply amazing.  It’s a website which offers digitally scanned images and information of books, manuscripts, maps and artifacts from ancient places.  Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Oceania, the Americas – it’s all there.  Looks pretty cool and there might even be some finds for my Church History essay…. Let’s hope so! Here’s what the …

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Apr
22

Request for thoughts: What makes a good blog?

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At the prompting of Dave Miers, I’m toying with the idea of revamping this old blog… It’s been a few years since I’ve worked in the online IT world, but I think now’s the time to resurrect some of those skills.  My area of expertise was in the realm of online adverting at Sensis (Yellow …

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Apr
20

Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere

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I stumbled across the Technorati State of the Blogosphere 2008 report tonight, and it’s fascinating.  I’m not sure whether I’m surprised or not in the general volume of blog traffic, but there are some interesting statistics to be taken note of. Firstly, some stats from other sources: comScore MediaMetrix (August 2008) Blogs: 77.7 million unique …

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Apr
19

Slashdot News

2 good articles from every techie’s favourite: Slashot.org Antarctic Ice Is Growing, Not Melting Away, At Davis Station “A report from The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research says that Antarctic ice is growing, not melting away. Ice core drilling in the fast ice off Australia’s Davis Station in East Antarctica by the Antarctic Climate and …

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