Two museums are at work on a project to create one of the largest free databases of masterwork photography anywhere on the Web. By RANDY KENNEDY. Link: Amassing a Treasury of Photography.
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CNN: Tech will cause a real estate crash. Given the nature of real estate, he warned that even a drop in demand by 20 percent could cause prices to be cut in half. Nielsen said that technology would make it ever more attractive to live in small towns and rural areas, which would undermine many of the advantages currently held…
Not sure this will last, as with most things IT & Government related, but looks good.. The Online Council operates as the peak ministerial forum across governments in Australia for consultation and coordination on the information economy. Link: Online Council.
This is from the Central Ranges LLEN - [ Yes, I have a particular interest!] Welcome to the "Voices from the Future" podcast! Please listen to our first welcome podcast here! Over the coming weeks we hope to add YOUR voice to the debate about what is most important for young people in our community. We want to…
Govt backflips on regional funding decision. The Federal Government has reversed a $250 million Budget decision to cut funding to Regional Partnerships programs. [ABC News: Breaking Stories]
Who owns your comments?. Last week, in the rush of news and new features in NewsJunk.com, I got an email from Daniel Ha, the guy who develops Disqus, the commenting software we use at Scripting News. I say "we" because it very literally is a we thing. When you place a comment on my blog, you're adding something to the…
Infinity--they keep making more of it If you had a little business in a little town, there was a natural limit to your growth. You hit a limit on strangers (no people left to pitch), some became friends, some became customers and you then went delivered as much as you could to this core audience. Every day wasn't spent trying…
Photographer Documents Secret Satellites -- All 189 of Them. BERKELEY, California -- For most people, photographing something that isn't there might be tough. Not so for Trevor Paglen. His shots of 189 secret spy satellites are the subject of a new exhibit -- despite the fact that, officially speaking, the satellites don't exist. The Other Night Sky, on display at…
What Comes After Minds?. The human mind is the most complex thing we know. We feel this intuitively. But complexity is hard to measure. The total number of cells in a human brain may be no more than those in a watermelon, yet the diversity and functions of those cells in the brain exceed those in a fruit. We can…