Biomedical Multimedia Unit News

This interview was broadcast on the Radio National breakfast program in October 2006. In view of our changing student body, I thought it might be of some interest.
Now to the NEO… Never heard of them? They’re a group not easily defined, but one that makes decisions with one thing in mind—themselves. They resent being labelled, [...]

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So a new player is emerging on the social networking/filesharing horizon. Called Scribd (because of course as a web 2.0 site, it has to drop a vowel) this page utilises the Flash paper format (a streamlined web competitor to PDF) and allows users to tag, share and even download the document - in MS Word [...]

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I confess that I had never thought about the home entertainment value of my medical imaging records until I read this account of how to “geek out with your own body”.   Is this a new twist on an evening of watching someone’s travel slides, do you think? Thanks to Quinn Norton and others in Wired’s biotech [...]

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In an interesting development, Victorian public schools look set to ban YouTube, in an effort to curb ‘cyber bullying’.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21306297-5006785,00.html
So much for person of the year…

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