Hi, thanks for opening the list for conversation. I'm a
computer/broadcast engineer from Australia but currently based in the
UK for work, though next month I head to Auckland for 9months on my
next project. I've worked in free-to-air, cable and satellite
broadcasters engineering departments and now work as part of the team
for a vendor setting up digital tv systems in asia pacific region (so
get to travel a bit which is great!). I've always studied technical
courses (science/elec eng/IT) but am currently enrolled in an internet
communication course (first semester) as I'd like to learn more about
arts and digital culture as this is what I tend to play with at home.
I've also been involved with electronic music communities in Aus,
organising live electronic music nights & promotion for local
independant artists, maintaining a website for news and projects info
and I used to broadcast a weekly internet radio show featuring local
artists music & news until moving overseas. Currently I'm keeping an
eye on podcasting, videoblogging technologies and communities as the
diy broadcasting and 'citizen journalist' is appealing to me. I also
try to keep up to date with new technology developments and am
interested in pervasive computing. I've also setup cms / community
websites as I think the collaborative site is a great way to build an
online community. My writing skills need a lot of improvement
(hopefully practice and this new course will help!) so I guess at the
moment, wrt this list, my focus would be digital life with the hope of
improving my writing along the way.
nice to meet you
cheers
Kath
On 4/15/05, Sue Thomas <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Welcome to Writing and the Digital Life.
>
> This list is now open. You are warmly invited to introduce yourself and your
> projects. Where are you based? What is your interest in Writing and the
> Digital Life? What are the burning issues for you? What would you like us
> to talk about?
>
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> _So what is of interest to the list?
> Anything that addresses the impact of digital technologies upon writing and
> lived experience, from vague, barely expressible notions to passionate
> manifestos. This is the place for conjecture, imaginings, mappings and
> propositions.
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