myResearchSpace

Researchers at Google have published a paper on the ability to identify people and their social network from ''activity streams'' on various sites even when people thought these were anonymous or not linked. Some of the problems have been publicised recently - like Face Book's Beacon technology where companies could insert their wares into a ...

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 say it runs faster, takes a lot less memory (20 tabs open suddenly takes about 300mg ...

There has been a proposal to move to a standard internet quota for all postgraduate students of 2GB per year. This is apparently what Melbourne does for its students. I would be interested to hear whether people think that this is going to be sufficient. Given that my quota at home is 25GB per month, I would suspect not?

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 of the way (some) student experiences are changing: [YouTube:dGCJ46vyR9o] Some of the ...

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 offers UWA's research students.  If you're not sure if you're getting ...

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.)

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? :)

Australia's QUT has been in the grip of a very public controversy recently which dovetails between issues of freedom of speech, academic ethics and the transparency of university processes.  The controversy came to light and media attention on 11 April this year when two QUT academics, John Hookham and Gary MacLennan, published an article in ...

Another interesting video about Net Neutrality: [Click the image to open a new window with the video embedded.] This one's a little more fun, but still does a good job explaining why Net Neutrality matters (in just over 3 minutes, this time!) [Via Sivacracy] 

If you're interested in Net Neutrality, then check out this evocative mini-documentary on why regulating the internet in the ways being debate in the US are a bad idea of democracy, a bad idea for the US, and a really bad idea for the rest of us! Save the Internet | Rock the Vote If you're not interested in Net Neutrality, perhaps ...