As the LAMP team are busy developing  internal courses here in AFTRS, Mr. LAMP is having a well earned rest from external cross-media development for a few months. So what are you all to do? Well as regards other incubator labs in Australia that actually grow your idea we wouldn’t have any hesitation in recommending [...]

The NSW Education Department is now among Google’s biggest gmail clients after they recently signed up for the service. A recent article in the Sydney Morning Herald reports that the NSW Education deal is one of the biggest deployments of gmail in the world. You can read the article here. Macaquarie University has also reportedly [...]

Dave Parry, an assistant professor of Emergent Media and Communications at the University of Texas has decided to experiment with offering his Graduate Seminar on Networked Knowledge to interested students outside of the university who are willing to commit to completing the readings and participating in on-line discussion sessions.  Essentially he is offering the knowledge [...]

Another report looking at Australian media usage patterns in the wake of broadband has been released. You can download the report here. I caught Julian Thomas, one of the authors of this CCI report on the ABC’s Media Report this week and you can read the transcript here.
One of the most interesting things reported was [...]

We at LAMP and AFTRS know of Randy’s legacy via contacts at Carnegie Mellon ETC in Adelaide and after seeing Randy Pausch’s passion for his pioneering work in the last lecture it is very sad news that he died this week. Text from the Carnegie Mellon site provides more detail.
“Pausch co-founded the Entertainment Technology Center [...]

Literature and New Media: trope – promoting new writing in Second Life
www.trope.net.au
When/where: Thursday, 22 May 2008, 12pm – 2pm, Bangarra Theatre, Pier 4/5, Hickson Road, Walsh Bay

trope is a new space in Second Life promoting creative writing in virtual environments. The roundtable features trope’s creators alongside writers selected for the first iteration, discussing the [...]

Thank you to Claudine Ryan at ABC Science Online for this article:
Blogging can help you feel less isolated, more connected to a community and more satisfied with your friendships, both online and face-to-face, new Australian research has found.
The research, from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, found after two months of regular blogging, people [...]

 Ain’t it great how digiland creeps into the nooks and crannies of every profession. I stumbled across this academic journal that specialises in medical internet research. 
 
 It has been published online since 1999 - early adapters those medicos.  The peer reviewed contribution criteria includes online medical thingies of course, then segways into Techie Avenue.
“In addition, the Journal will publish original [...]