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IN/OUTPUTS for 2 to 8 January

Posted on January 5th, 2012

In/outputs - a taste plate of stuff that’s passed through my feeds this week Tiny wire to have big impact on computers Quantum computing is one step closer with the development of a wire 10,000 times smaller than a human hair that has the same electrical resistivity of copper wiring. The wire was created by the Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology at the University of New South Wales and measures just four atoms wide and one atom tall. While the quantum computer is still awhile off yet, this technology marks as significant addition to the components needed to make one. ↷ Mitchell Nadin in The Australian, 6 January 2012. From Andy Warhol to Mark Twain, 400 Years of New York Diaries The…

IN/OUTPUTS for 28 November to 4 December

Posted on November 28th, 2011

In/outputs - a taste plate of stuff that’s passed through my feeds this week DEEDI and QPS websites licensed under CC BY The use of Creative Commons by Government agencies in Australia is huge. The number of Australian government licence users dwarfs (almost) every other jurisdiction, and today that number ticked just a little higher. The ccAustralia blog published an entry about two Queensland Government departments that have applied Creative Commons to their online content: the Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation (DEEDI) and the Queensland Police Service (QPS).agencies have adopted the Australian Creative Commons Attribution licence (3.0 and 2.5 respectively). Please welcome DEEDI and QPS to the Commons! ♺ Cheryl Foong on Commons News (Australia), 28 November 2011.  Still hungry? Grab the In/outputs RSS feed for…

IN/OUTPUTS for 21 to 27 November

Posted on November 24th, 2011

In/outputs - a taste plate of stuff that’s gone through my feeds this week Faker to give new album away for free In an open letter on their website, Sydney band Faker have announced they will release their third studio album Get Loved for free from their website from midday on 2 December. The letter, penned by front man Nathan Hudson, starts, ”We are giving our record away. For free.” Hudson continues, “The point and excitement in writing and releasing Get Loved is in danger of being missed.” While as yet I haven’t been able to find out anything about the licensing of the release, I think the move clearly demonstrates how confused and disjointed the music industry is right now. I hope the free download is everything you want…