Tama Talks Blogs

Firefox 3 … Go Get It … Today!

Tama — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:25:00 GMT

Unless you’ve been hiding under a digital rock, you’d know that the best browser in the world has released an even better incarnation: Firefox 3 is here. I could write about all of its improvements, but you can get a fuller version here, suffice it to...(read more)

Should academia boycott "locked-down" academic journals?

Tama — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:26:15 GMT

Open-access to scholarly research has been very topical the past few years. The internet as a means of communication and distribution seems to have led down to paths, increasingly divergent: either academic journals are going open-access, allowing anyone...(read more)

Tips for academic job applications

Tama — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:07:12 GMT

Alex Halavais has posted a very useful set of Tips for academic job applications which, if you're even thinking about heading in that direction, you should read. All the points are worth thinking about, but I thought I'd highlight two. Firstly: Teach...(read more)

From YouTube to UniTube?

Tama — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:59:50 GMT

It would appear that the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has the dubious honours of being the first Australian university to have their own YouTube channel . In the past couple of months, there have been a number of reports of US universities setting...(read more)

A Vision of Students Today

Tama — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 05:30:00 GMT

Michael Wesch and his 200 students in ANTH 200: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, Spring 2007 collaborated in exploring what exactly a student does these days. Their results make a fascinating video and a timely reminder...(read more)

Free Burma!

Tama — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:01:00 GMT

Support a Free Burma. Visit www.free-burma.org ....(read more)

Reflections on the Australian Blogging Conference and Blogging in Education

Tama — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 04:25:00 GMT

As readers of my main blog will know , I spent Friday at the Australian Blogging Conference at QUT's Creative Industries Precinct in Brisbane. It was a fabulous, stimulating and intellectually rich conference and a great end to Tama's-month-o-conferencing...(read more)

Creating an Online Presence During Candidature

Tama — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 05:34:35 GMT

The talk I have during the PSA's Research week on 'Creating an Online Presence During Candidature' is now online, complete with slides and audio , thanks to Lectopia. At 36:45 in to the presentation, I talk explicitly about MyResearchSpace and what it...(read more)

What would YOU want to know about creating an online presence during candidature?

Tama — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:36:39 GMT

So, if you were attending a talk called 'Creating an online presence during candidature', what exactly would you want to know? Rather than this being some vague question, it's a very real one, as I've agreed to talk on this topic at next week's Research...(read more)

On the Importance of Proof-Reading ... everything!

Tama — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 03:00:12 GMT

Typos can really ruin almost anything if you let them. As they say, a picture paints a thousand words ......(read more)

Ultimate Simpsons Visual Humour ...

Tama — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:57:00 GMT

If you don't get why this is funny immediately, then you need to watch more of The Simpsons. (Brought to you by Tama's wacky brain and The Customer Keyboard Generator. )...(read more)

Eight Things About Me (A Meme)

Tama — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:09:56 GMT

Chuck tagged me a few days ago with the Eight Things meme; although I'm generally fairly anti-meme, I've been enjoying a bit of back and forth with Chuck in his blog and on del.icio.us, so figured I could add one more procrastination on a writing day....(read more)

Out-Geek Me!

Tama — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:14:14 GMT

Yesterday, Karen called me a geek. She's right; but I suspect a fair few postgrad bloggers are in the geekerly way, too, but: can you prove it? Here's evidence of my uber-geekery... If you've got the same tool , can you out-geek me? :)...(read more)

John Howard and Kevin Rudd Are on Facebook. Are you?

Tama — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 06:07:42 GMT

Warning: Segue into politics and digital communication... What is Facebook? Should you care? Does the fact that John Howard and Kevin Rudd (or their team) have Facebook pages mean anything about Australian politics in a digital era? If any of these questions...(read more)

Would you use an ePrint/pre-print online archive at UWA?

Tama — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 08:36:34 GMT

Given that Robyn's been sharing her heightened enthusiasm for various eResearch tools and David's been talking about some of the eResearch (or, at least, digital communication about eResearch) options already available , I thought I'd throw in an idea...(read more)