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Year: 2010

  • Kate Ray’s semantic web

    Kate Ray, a journalism major at NYU, interviewed a range of people for her documentary, Web 3.0.

    Her talent includes Tim Berners-Lee and many other semantic web experts.
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  • Treaty by Yothu Yindi

    The 1991 song Treaty by Yothu Yindi came out while I was working in the Territory. It is one of my favourite songs, and the video clip and dancing is a bonus.

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  • The Story of Stuff

    The Story of Stuff Project’s mission is to build a strong, diverse, decentralized, cross-sector movement to transform systems of production and consumption to serve ecological sustainability and social wellbeing.

    Their goals are to amplify public discourse on a diverse set of sustainability issues and to facilitate the growing Story of Stuff community’s involvement in strategic efforts to build a more sustainable and just world.

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  • Writing blog posts

    Maryrose Lyons discusses tactics used in writing for online audiences and how to tailor your writing style to capture the best attention possible.
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  • Know there is nothing to know

    Sunflower head in seed

    Use the wisdom of a diamond to control and rule it,
    since just like a plant, there is nothing to know.
    To know there is nothing to know
    is the wisdom to know everything.

    ~ Tao-shin (580-651)

  • Is there anything else to remember?

    I only open my eyes for the spring wind
    And the autumn moon.

    ~ Hamhur Kiwha (1376-1433)

  • Don’t covet

    Not knowing its strength,
    The mosquito sucked too much blood to fly.
    Don’t covet what others value.
    You’ll pay for it someday.

    ~ Naong Haegun (1320-1376)

  • New version of ABC Local

    In February 2010 we launched the most recent iteration of ABC Local, by my calculation the fifth I’ve been involved in.

    This time the project took 14 months but when you consider there are 54 sites and hundred of thousands of pages, along with significant photo, audio and video media files this is not as long as you might think.

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