March 31st, 2006
It is with great pleasure that I announce a wonderful new plugin for blogs: Academic Citations.
The plugin automatically generates citations at the foot of every blog post in five common formats: AMA, APA, Chicago, Harvard, and MLA. It is well documented and installation is simple: upload and activate the plugin, insert a line into your template, and add optional CSS to your stylesheet.
What this means is that every post on a blog can be easily cited with all the correct details needed, something that not all blogs supply. Besides encouraging citing of your hard earned posts, it also champions blogs as valid sources. The plugin was created by the spectaculous Julie Meloni and fantabulous fellow WRT blogger Jeremy Douglass (who announced its release here). I assisted with the project enough to earn bragging rights! 
Julie is working on making the plugin work for Moveable Type and Blogger, so don’t feel left out. Try it now, click on ‘view academic citations’ at the footer of this post. Enjoy!
March 28th, 2006
I just thought I’d give an update on talks I’ve given , will be giving, this year on cross-media entertainment and polymorphic narrative (other than my usual teaching). This year so far I’ve delivered seminars in my capacity as a mentor with LAMP for Bush TV and just yesterday for the Australia Council for the Arts: Literature Board. They’ll be more talks in Perth, and other states I cannot talk about yet! I’ve got the following comfirmed talks coming up:
- April 11: ‘Findability’, Digital Distribution Seminar, AFTRS, Victoria.
- April 12: ‘Cross-Media Entertainment? lecture for Advanced Multimedia Theory and Production, 3nd year students, Media Department, Division of Society, Culture, Media & Philosophy, Macquarie University, NSW.
- May 16: Cross-Media Entertainment: how games can be designed to take over the universe, DAG (Digital Art and Games) Seminar series, RMIT Creative Media, Games programs, Vic.
- August: ‘Polymorphic Narrative: there is a new artform’ Deakin University, Vic.
The May 16 talk at RMIT is open to the public so feel free to come along and say hi if you’re in the locale.
