Thanks to Hughie from University of Queensland for the info that transcripts of Harvard’s Blogging, Journalism & Credibility conference are available at: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/webcred/Interesting stuff posted to it (it’s a blog)…
As always Belinda from journoz: Guide to Internet Information Sources for Australian Journalists provides some good resources, this one is worth a look … The Net Generation’s “aptitudes, attitudes, expectations,…
What a surprise- another year of women complaining that there are not enough women in the IT industry! We get the token female CEO or CIO to talk at our…
There is a an interesting take on US politics on a site (of the Democratic persuasion one might imagine 😉 It seems the Democrats are so busy being cross that…
This is a story from my undergraduate days in one of Australia’s *sandstone universities. In the philosophy department there had been a split between the ‘old fashioned’ philosophers (called “Trad…
Someone recently quoted Winston Churchill as saying “If a man is not a socialist by the time he is 20, he has no heart. If he is not a conservative…
I have been reading Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography and other writings (ISBN: 0140390529) and his writings do stand well the test of time, as well as being quite entertaining to read.…
This article has been reproduced in full below, it raises some very important issues about corporate and individual responsibility. Even staff in the Nazi concentration camps were assisted in rationalising…
The World Today – Educator claims critical thought stifled in our schools: ABC Radio, The World Today, Wed, 9-Feb-2005, Reporter: David Mark In the Spring edition of The Journal of…
I’ve just come out of hospital where I spent 7 days after major abdominal surgery. The surgeon and the hospital were fantastic! We are very lucky here in Australia with…
Kate Carruthers