11 AM | 25 Nov

The Inaugural ICT Industry Xmas Event

The Inaugural ICT Industry Xmas Event http://tinyurl.com/3dnnyq

Brought to you by CollabIT (an AIIA & Vic Govt initiative) inconjunction with Enterprise Java, ACS, Vic ICT for Women, ITS Aust. & AIMIA

Join in a great fun evening December 5th, from 4:30pm to 8:30 pm

Bowls, BBQ Dinner and Drinks at Fitzroy Lawn Bowls Club.

A good fun Lawn Bowls Face Off between the various ICT Industry Associations will take place on the Lawns of the Fitzroy] Lawn Bowls Club on Wednesday 5th December, 2007. Great networking opportunities, great entertainment and prizes, so register your team of 4 today, or register yourself as an individual player and you will be matched up into a team of 4. You do not need to know how to play lawn bowls to participate. AIIA and CollabIT will be launching the CollabIT Industry Event Calendar at this event. This resource has been created to provide one central repository where you can list and find ICT events and information. As such, the calendar will provide ICT associations and groups with the opportunity to see ‘what’s on’ within the industry at any given time and hence, assist in planning of future events. The event calendar will also provide small and large associations with a useful tool which can be used to collaborate on events. In short, the CollabIT Industry Event Calendar will bring people together and improve networking.

Date: Wednesday, 5 December, 2007 Time: 4:30pm to 8.30pm – Includes BBQ dinner & drinks Venue: Fitzroy Lawn Bowls Club Cost: 578 Brunswick Street, North Fitzroy Register: Members $60.00, Non Members $85.00 * Members rates apply to members of any of the participating associations

Register online at: www.gener8.com.au/bowlit.asp or contact Gener8 on ph) 03 9018 9095 or email registrations@gener8.com.au

11 AM | 25 Nov

Is the Kindle a turkey?

Amazon’s new electronic book, the Kindle, was released just in time to make it on holiday gift lists. The product has been derided by some reviewers as ugly and overpriced. Both of which it is. But the Kindle is an important product for Amazon and for publishing, since it represents a potential game changer in how we acquire content to read. The Kindle is also a Web-access device–in fact, it’s the only wireless device I know of that comes with a free (well, after you buy it and the content, too) EVDO data connection. It can display blogs and newspapers. But, bizarrely, you have to pay for each blog you want to read on it.

Amazon’s Kindle, the new electronic book reader (hands-on first look), is not just a device for reading paperless books and newspapers. It’s also an ecosystem for writers who want to publish their works without dealing with publishers or vanity presses or other middlemen.

Read more

11 AM | 25 Nov

Semantic Web meets info overload

Twine is a new Web 2.0 service for managing all your information, using your social network and built-in intelligence to auto-tag all your stuff.

With Twine, people collect different pieces of information in a single place and let other people add to that collection. People can e-mail items into Twine, bookmark Web pages, or upload documents. To add tags, people fill in a form.

The software is smart enough to create tags itself after mining through the content, which can be text, audio or video. It also taps into the collective knowledge of Wikipedia to categorize information.

Read the review.

11 AM | 25 Nov

Blogger admitted into NUJ

Blogger admitted into NUJ – The technology website Engadget blogger, Conrad Quilty-Harper, has become the first professional blogger to be granted membership into the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) after his application was rejected before. NUJ’s acceptance and recognition of a blogger as a media profession signals a shift in the way bloggers are perceived in the media profession.

For the full story go to: http://www.journalism.co.uk/staging/2/articles/530749.php

11 AM | 25 Nov

Experimental Melbourne:gig blog

Experimental Melbourne – http://exp-melb.blogspot.com – is a new resource that aims to bring together in one place news about impending experimental music gigs, releases, news and discussion in Melbourne.

Posting is available to multiple authors who want to promote shows, or just discuss, so if you want to post some news drop Clinton Green an email and he’ll register you.

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