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Comment on This post is restricted. Please contact your ISP for access. by sandrar

sandrar — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:29:39 +0000

Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. Cheers! Sandra. R.

Comment on Is this thing still on? by Kathryn Greenhill

Kathryn Greenhill — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:14:48 +0000

From what I know of you, you seem articulate, intelligent, extremely observant, to have your feet firmly on the ground and to be user focused. I think this makes an academic library a better fit for you than a vendor.

Someone smart once told me that when you work in a library, you are not in the “library business”, you are in the business of whatever your library’s parent body does. Welcome to the education business I think you will do very well at UWA. Good luck.

Comment on Second Rate by Bret Treasure

Bret Treasure — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:34:46 +0000

Harvard, Yale, MIT, SoCAL, Pepperdine, Princeton and over a hundred other of the world’s leading educational institutions believe this medium is worth investigating. Doesn’t that give you a clue? Their interest has nothing to do with popularity; it’s because they recognize that this is a new medium and that it addresses a fundamental weakness in education, collaboration at a distance. Your post shows a lack of understanding and a lack of curiosity. Look a little deeper.

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bookbuster — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:51:56 +0000

You’re dead right. The enemy here is not the internet – it’s parental complacency. As soon as you tell the parents that the net is now ‘clean’, they’re going to stop paying attention. And because it will be the government’s fault, not the parents, when the kid comes across something s/he shouldn’t, the restrictions can only get more onerous, not less. To relax restrictions would be seen as irresponsible. The soccer moms of Australia would howl. They’re already trying to paint those who oppose this level of censorship as supporters of child pornography.

If it’s any consolation, a vote for the other side would have done about as much damage. Remember it was under the Liberals that the first half of this – enforced age restrictions – came about.

Comment on This post is restricted. Please contact your ISP for access. by Greg

Greg — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:10:15 +0000

And all this still leaves children open to the main danger – internet chatroom predators. In fact, by filtering and making the net seem “safer” for children, this will certainly decrease the amount of parental supervision. So I see this as a paedophile-friendly move by the government, as well as a massive step towards the kind of internet censorship we see in hardline dictatorship governments. 1 month in and I’m already regretting my vote.

Comment on Second Rate by bookbuster

bookbuster — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:27:32 +0000

I know the feeling. We’re hoping to embark on a large redesign sometime in the near future, but it remains but one of the demands on my time and the time of my bosses. Also, we’re stuck waiting for the expensive consultants to tell the city to agree to my also expensive demand list.

When you’re time-poor, Second Life is the last place you want to be. Like most MMOs, it functions as a huge time sink, both in development and maintenance time. If you get a chance, mind, I’d actually recommend playing around with it briefly in your own time. You don’t really need very long to get an idea of where the problems with it lie, and also why some people are so taken with it despite the problems.

Comment on Second Rate by Leigh Anne Vrabel

Leigh Anne Vrabel — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:26:16 +0000

Bravo! I have not yet begun to muck about with Second Life, probably because we’re in the middle of a HUGE website redesign @ my library, and that’s more than enough on one plate (not that it’s the only thing on my plate by any means, but that’s neither here nor there).