From my iPhone, WordPress backend interface a bit tricky! Google Australia Communications and Public Affairs Manager Johnny Luu presents Google 101 for Journalists, covering tips and tricks for using various Google tools, advanced search methods, finding and analysing trends, and creating data visualisations. Search smarter tips & tricks Algorithm Results page -Fact box, breakout -Ads, like editorial & […]
Monthly Archives: November 2012
Marking & Grading Playlist
Here is the playlist I am listening to whilst marking and grading papers. It is a measure of soothing melancholia and aggressive upbeat tracks, all with a suitable dose of irony: 1. “Be Still” Killers 2. “Best Around” Dana Buoy 3. “Cuntry Boys & City Girls” The Fratellis 4. “Stress” Justice (I am pretty sure […]
Appification of Fitness and Technics of the Body
I modified my recent Code2K12 paper while at was at the conference to introduce a TEDx or ‘Virilio’ moment. By this I mean speculating on the future scenario of present tendencies. I wanted to isolate a tendency in the ways various functions of the magazine are not only repeated in different ways online now (my previous paper), […]
Modulating Appetite
From Mary Wyman’s 1960 book on Whitehead is this example of creativity as part of a general process of concrescence (as becoming): This actualization of potentiality as an ingredient in something real might be illustrated by the experience of Otto Lilienthal, pioneer inventor of the flying glider. Process here is obviously considered on a scale […]
The Map is the Territory
Mel has a very interesting work in progress paper up on her blog on “The territory of the post-professional“. We sometimes share very similar research interests. I’ve also looked at questions of territory and technological assemblages in my Communications Technologies & Change unit this semester. In one week we looked at the relation between predictive […]