[LINK] Digital scholar postponed

[Alan L Tyree]

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:29:13 +1000
Tom Worthington <Tom.Worthington at tomw.net.au> wrote:

> 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:

Tom,
I hadn't planned to attend (too far from the Blue Mountains!) but I
would be very interested in your talk.

Cheers,
Alan

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