[LINK] Digital scholar postponed

[Tom Worthington]

I wrote Fri, 08 Sep 2006 08:55:08 +1000 (was: "Digital scholar's 
workbench, ANU, 13 Sep 2006"):

>... talk by Ian 
>Barnes  <http://cecs.anu.edu.au/seminars/showone.pl?SID=257> ... 
>2006-09-13 ... 16:00:00 - 17:00:00 ... ANU, Canberra ...

Unfortunately Ian is unwell and his talk has been postponed (I will 
let you know the new date).

If any Linkers had already made plans to attend, let me know and I 
can give a preview of the talk I am giving to the Canberra Society of 
Editors in October on e-publishing tools:

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Title:  Electronic publishing for Editors
by:     Tom Worthington FACS HLM

         Chair of Scholarly Publishing for the Australian Computer Society
         and Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University.

Summary:

Tom Worthington discusses how free and low cost computer tools and 
service can be used by to research, produce, publish, distribute and 
sell books online. He shows new technology under development for 
scholarly publishing which is set to revolutionize commercial 
publishing, radio and TV. He uses as examples books he has published 
and the new electronic publishing system under development by the 
Australian Computer Society.

* How you can walk into the National Library of Australia with 
nothing and walk out having published a book.
* How to give away publications on-line and make money.

About the speaker:

Tom Worthington is an independent IT consultant and occasional travel 
author. He teaches electronic publishing  technology at the 
Australian National University. In 1999 Tom was elected a Fellow of 
the Australian Computer Society for his contribution to the 
development of public Internet policy in Australia. His book Net 
Traveller is available free on-line (and makes money).

Background:

* Net Traveller- Exploring the Networked Nation, book by Tom 
Worthington <http://www.tomw.net.au/nt/>.
* Electronic Publishing at the ACS 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/technology/it/ecommerce/publishing.shtml>.

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Tom Worthington FACS HLM tom.worthington at tomw.net.au Ph: 0419 496150
Director, Tomw Communications Pty Ltd            ABN: 17 088 714 309
PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617                http://www.tomw.net.au/
Director, ACS Communications Tech Board   http://www.acs.org.au/ctb/
Visiting Fellow, ANU      Blog: http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/atom.xml