Milkbar.com.au (Visitors Book)

All comments and suggestions about any part of this site is most appreciated. I have published some of them here. Email

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

From: "Greg and Karen King" gkking at netspace.net.au
To: "Craig Bellamy"

By the way, I've stumbled across your site, as have others, as I teach a unit on 'Retreat from the Global' for the NSW HSC Extension 1 English course. What's particularly useful about your site is that students are not only required to look at texts which explore the relationships between the global and the local, but also are required to look at the language forms, features and structures through which the author of the text conveys the ideas. In this regard, your website is a wealth of material, not just for the content, but also for the ways the ideas are presented and your explanations of the suitability of the webpage format.

Thanks Greg King

posted by Craig Bellamy at Wednesday, November 09, 2005

From: "Greg and Karen King"
To: "Craig Bellamy"

By the way, I've stumbled across your site, as have others, as I teach a unit on 'Retreat from the Global' for the NSW HSC Extension 1 English course. What's particularly useful about your site is that students are not only required to look at texts which explore the relationships between the global and the local, but also are required to look at the language forms, features and structures through which the author of the text conveys the ideas. In this regard, your website is a wealth of material, not just for the content, but also for the ways the ideas are presented and your explanations of the suitability of the webpage format.

Thanks Greg King

posted by Craig Bellamy at Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Monday, March 21, 2005

fadgy_002@hotmail.com
To: craig.bellamy@milkbar.com.au

Subject: Extension Student
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 21:15:25 +1100

Dear Craig,

My name is Andrea McFadzean, I'm a year twelve student studying the notion of Globalisation through both Geography and my Extension English topic "Retreat from the Global". Firstly, I think you're website is fantastic! It's both innovative and interesting. Referred to it by my english teacher, I have found it to be of particular use in regards to our Extension topic. In addition to our set texts, we are required to refer to pieces of Additional Material. Browsing through your website, I began looking at your interviews with locals regarding their feelings and thoughts on Globalisation. It occurred to me that some of your interviews would be perfect to use as pieces of Additional Material. So, I was wondering if you had the transcripts of those interviews available? If so, would you be kind enough to send me the transcripts of two interviews. Preferably one presenting a negative aspect on Globalisation, the other with a contrasting positive view? If that is possible it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks alot, and keep up the terrific work of your project! Best of luck to you.

Andrea

posted by Craig Bellamy at Monday, March 21, 2005

Friday, November 12, 2004

From: "Judy Panucci" judyp at tpg.com.au
To: craig.bellamy at milkbar.com.au
Subject: Comment from milkbar.com.au

Dear Craig
I'm a high school English teacher from country NSW who happened upon your site in .3 of a second via Google Aust. after typing in "globalization+culture". I can't believe my luck! I have a Year 12 Extension English class doing a module called "Ways of Thinking: Retreat From the Global". We have to analyse 3 core texts - Sitch's movie The Castle, E. A. Proulx's novel The Shipping News and seven of Seamus Heaney's poems. We have to then find interesting and diverse texts which in some way address attitudes to the global and link these to discussions of the core texts. As well, students have to be able to write creatively about the concepts. It's an interestingg module and milkbar has been invaluable as an absorbing and objective site which is very user friendly for both me and my students.

If you are at all interested in what we are doing or if you have any suggestions for material which may be of interest to adolescents and which could help them in their independent research we'd love to hear from you. Thanks again.I have spent many hours on your site and find it almost addictive. Some of my students discuss it on chat lines! We are perhaps an unexpected audience.

Milkkbar is an impressive achievement and one that to me makes sense of Castell's statement about the not good/ not bad/ not neutral nature of technology and globalization.

Thanks again
Judy Panucci

posted by Craig Bellamy at Friday, November 12, 2004

Tuesday, April 20, 2004

From: "John Forth" radiance@netcon.net.au
To: craig.bellamy@milkbar.com.au
Subject: Politics Real and True essays on politics and Culture by Adi Da Samraj
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004

Dear Craig,

My name is John Forth from Kyneton. I used to live in Fitzroy and shop at the milk bar on your webpage. I came across your excellent website via Gary Sauer Thompson.

I wish to point you to a set of essays on politics and culture by Adi Da Samraj. These essays were written from Adi Da's unique global perspective that our western anti-"culture" of competitive individualism has brought the entire world to the brink of both cultural and ecological melt down,

Please check out: Politics Real and True at

1. http://www.dabase.org/politics.htm

Plus 2 essays with related themes: on the origins and consequences of the drive to total power and control at the root of the entire western "cultural" project.

Space-Time Is Love-Bliss at:

2. http://www.dabase.org/spacetim.htm

The Asana of Science?The Bridge to God at:

3. http://www.aboutadidam.org/readings/asana_of_science/index.html

Have you ever read The Pentagon of Power by Lewis Mumford?
Adi Da points to that book as an excellent (though somewhat dated and limited) desription of how the drive to total power/control manifested/solidified throughout western history. Culminating in the Pentagon power nexus.
The Pentagon (and its associated "culture" of death) now being in effect the (inevitable) and supreme cathedral of the dominant world "religion" of scientific materialism.

John Forth

posted by Craig Bellamy at Tuesday, April 20, 2004

Friday, January 30, 2004

From: "Jiao Jiao lu" ellulu926@hotmail.com
Subject: Comment from milkbar.com.au
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 03:04:30 +1100

Dear Craig,
It's quite interesting that I found your site on the net, because many aspects of your site is associated with my life at present. I was searching for poverty in Fitzroy Melbourne on the net because some reporters came to the housing estate and was interviewing residents and others about poverty in the commission housing on 90 Brunswick St, and as I happen to work in the milk bar under those flats, I learnt from the reporters that according to the previous census conducted, this was the most disadvantaged place in Melbourne in terms of income. It was shocking discovery was not at all surprising. It was great to read about the history of Fitzroy in milk bar, a place which I've come to accept, appreciate in the two and a half years which my father has run the milk bar under the commision flats. The interesting mixture of people whom I've interacted with in the shop has taught me alot about Fitzroy, Australia, the World and my place in each of those places. Sadly, the government is not granting us an extension of our lease which means we are loosing our family business, but I heared that they might be turning the shop into a community centre, so hopefully it will be of good use to the residents in the estate whom we've gotten to know over the years. The description of a milk bar is exactly as described in the comments. It was a pleasure to view your site

Jiao Jiao Lu

posted by Craig Bellamy at Friday, January 30, 2004

Friday, November 07, 2003

Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 14:03:25 +1100
Subject: milkbar
From: anne kay annekay@chilli.net.au
To: craig.bellamy@milkbar.com.au

Dear Craig,
I'm emailing to say thanks for your milkbar site. I found it when I was checking out the fibreculture site. I was so excited about finding the site, I 'm interested in the subject matter, and it was delightful to find such a developed work that ranged from collected, personal anecdotal material, to the academic stuff. PLUS, best of all the links worked hooray!! I get so frustrated by sites with content that won't play. I found the work really inspiring, so thanks,
Anne Kay
www.chilli.net.au/~annekay

posted by Craig Bellamy at Friday, November 07, 2003

Wednesday, October 22, 2003

From: Lisa Maya Knauer LKnauer@UMassD.Edu
Subject: Re: entering site
To: Craig Bellamy

Thanks. I'd love to talk with you about how you set this up. We might want to try something similar here: I teach at a very working class campus of a state university; nearby is a community, New Bedford, which is somewhat "overdetermined" historically -- it's the setting for Melville's Moby Dick, also where Frederick Douglass lived ... Now it's home to a large Cape Verdean and Azorean community, and while it is still a center for the international fishing industry (I think a majority of the world's scallops are shipped out of here), it has also become a regional, if not national, center for the illegal drug market. There are a couple of historical societies (one specifically focused on black history). So, it would be interesting at some point to develop an oral history project and "put it up" on the web ... But my short-term interest is for my anthropology classes, to expose students to different kinds of stories, and to think about the politics of representation .... I may not "use" it with students until next semester.
Do you have any documentation (or have you written up) what your intention was, how you got started, etc (or is that somewhere on the site itself)?

Cheers,
Lisa Maya Knauer

posted by Craig Bellamy at Wednesday, October 22, 2003

Monday, August 04, 2003

In the context of the milkbar as representing a core value in local
communities you may be interested in the description of the milkbar
as seen at:

http://www.worsleypress.com/milkbar/

This states in part of the milkbar:

"It is in the small corner store that the child learns to shop - sent
in for a carton of milk, or whatever, while mum waits in the car. or
maybe minds the pram with the family's latest addition outside.

"It is where the child will put a hand up to the counter with a ten
dollar note for "a bag of lollies" and be sent back to mum when he
isn't sure whether he wants ten cents' worth or ten dollars'.

"It is where the elderly woman who is suffering from memory loss (but
who is still managing to save the community a fortune by looking
after herself at home) can be stopped from buying milk again because
she only bought a carton this morning.

"It is where the husband can call in and ask whether his wife has
already bought a paper (or the bread, or the milk) on the way home,
because he can't remember whether he had to buv it or not.

"It is where mum can ring up with half a dozen things she forgot to
tell her son or daughter to get so we can add them to the shopping
list while they are still there.

"It is where people stop to find out where a street is, or to ask
where someone lives because they forgot to bring the address with
them.

"It is where people who live on their own find a rare opportunity to
have a conversation, even though, as a shop gets busier, it is a very
short one.

"It is, in other words, an unpaid, unofficial office of almost every
public authority - and often saves the community considerable time,
expense and effort."

This book, "How to Buy, Run and Sell a Milk Bar", has been expanded
and updated as a general guide to retailing as "Success in Store: How
to Start or Buy a Retail Business, Enjoy Running It and Make Money"
by Geoffrey Heard and Gordon Woolf -- including information on how
the locally owned business can compete with the multinational in the
retail area.

Details of the new book are at
http://www.worsleypress.com/successinstore/

Best wishes....

Gordon Woolf - gordon@worsleypress.com
The Worsley Press, Hastings, Victoria, Australia

Book publishers - newspaper production training

posted by Craig Bellamy at Monday, August 04, 2003

Monday, June 09, 2003

From: "Kate Shuttleworth" kateshuttleworth@eudoramail.com

Hi Craig

I just saw your article on NZ Indymedia and had a brief look at your website. I think it's brilliant and a great idea. There is an obvious lack of documentation, reporting and informed discussion on the effects of globalization on our communities.
I am a film-maker myself, (in the early stages). I am just completing a documentary on recording some of New Zealands peace people from the 1920s onwards. It's a pretty mammoth task as access to editing facilities has been a real hassle.
Anyway have you considered putting something in "The Paper" www.thepaper.org?

Also I think it would be amazing if there was more networking between Australian and New Zealand film-makers. Imagine the projects we could get going if we pulled resources!!! That is one of the toughest things here in NZ, is that there aren't enough like-minded people working together to create watchable and interesting stuff.

Food for thought.
Kia Kaha (stand tall)
Kate Shuttleworth

posted by Craig Bellamy at Monday, June 09, 2003

Monday, April 07, 2003

From: Ilaria Vanni ilariavanni@ozemail.com.au
To: milkbar@milkbar.com.au

Craig

After reading your postings on fiberculture for sometime now (and
appreciating them because they make me think), I went and visited milkbar. I will have to go back too with more time to read your thesis.

I love the way you go about making history.

I find your idea of research as flaneurie quite close to what I do, and I
like the way you think of place. A bit because I come from a country where people identifies with place more than with anything else including people and state, a bit because I like the idea of peeling off the layers that make up places (like in those nature documentary when they don't quite know what to do to come up with a date and go to Greenland to take an ice sample in a tube and read the passing of events trapped in the ice) and look at histories, and changes, unfolding. I do this looking at material and visual culture in part of my work.

Ciao

Ilaria

posted by Craig Bellamy at Monday, April 07, 2003

Monday, March 31, 2003

To: Craig Bellamy milkbar@milkbar.com.au

From: dpe@kb.dk
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 12:34:45 +0200

Hi Craig,

It's a really wonderful project and I am intrigued by the sense of suburbianism that it conveys as an image of digital culture. Is this a functional cause of technology or is it an inevitable consequence of economical factors? I am mostly a sleeper in fibreculture. I use it as a thermometer dipped in a good node and it gives me a lot of new ideas. But occasionally I get in the mood to write something and your criticism of what I understand as fashion-Deleuzianism sparked the lust to provoke you back. It's sad (i think) when complex and nuanced philosophical or other theoretical work is boiled to the bone and appropriated as theory-on-practice. And it's even sadder when academia becomes ruled under opinions or fashions determining
the questions worth the trouble to ask. But then again what I sense as a resignation before all kinds of attempts at describing /analyzing /
interrogating into new phenomena in your last contributions to the list
saddens me too. And angers me a bit, which I think is your intention.
Should we take these new phenomena at face value? Say: Yes - the library where I work cannot find a different way to give people access to its digitized collection other than through a system that mirrors its
institutional structure. Then? how to describe this real problem? There are juridical, technical, political, economical and behavioural aspects to it, not to mention the aesthetical problems, and somewhere it seems that no place is better than any other as a starting point for one's analysis. So why not start in the middle, in their interdependiencies? To me it is here that the French frogs are of help. Most people in the MODINET project center are not into Deleuze. As opposed to the Australian scene, in Denmark
a minority are struggle trying to convince the vast majority of its
usefulness. And it does not give anyone any extra credits. I believe
Deleuze is one among several thoughtarchitectures capable of handling the complexity of the problem I have to ask. But then again, i may quite simply
be wrong...: )

cheers,
dag

posted by Craig Bellamy at Monday, March 31, 2003

Friday, March 28, 2003

Part Two:

1. You say that the audience is "peers in your field." How would you define that field?

This is a difficult question as positioning has been one of the great challenges of this project. When I stared the project, I was much closer to the book-based canon of the expression of academic ideas as I had read broadly within the field of 'globalisation studies'. I knew the ideas that I wanted to express; basically that communities are important components of 'the global' and that memory and place are important components of what we understand as an historical community. However, I wasn't quite sure how to express these intentions within a medium that is often impersonal, ungrounded, and even anti-historical. I decided on one of the most evocatively-human approaches possible in this medium; namely video-recorded oral-histories of people that can be both seen and heard talking about where they live in a medium that often just skims across the surface of historical place.

My audience has always been other historians, especially those interested in new ways and methodologies to express historical knowledge through technology and those interested in community and place. This has often been difficult in terms of balancing my duty to the past and respect for the profession of history, whilst in some ways being professionally marginised from the discipline in Australia. When I stared this project in 1999, there was virtually no where within Australia that could support this model of scholarship. It was done within an technically literate applied arts school, but in a university with no humanities school and no history school. My association to the field of history has been through a fellowship, through editing the on-line list H-ANZAU, through the attendance at conferences, though an active knowledge of humanities computing, and through the loose association with a history school in another university. In refection, I am glad that I did this work outside of a history school because often academic innovation can only occur on the margins. And accordingly, on a more practical level, the technical literacy of most of this countries humanities schools is not yet great enough to support this model of scholarship. Unfortunately, from my extensive experience overseas this is not the case in North American or European humanities schools. The field of computers in history or computers in the humanities within Australia must be taken into account when assessing this work in terms of its ability to advance applied historical innovation and knowledge on-line. The field is still wide open in Australia, thus positioning will always be one of the great dangers/challenges for this type of scholarship.

2. You say that there need to be more "grounded local studies" of globalisation. You have undertaken such a study. Does it lead you to challenge, confirm, or modify what leading commentators on globalisation have written?

Globalisation is not one thing, just like Australia is not one thing, nor is Fitzroy one thing. Hopefully this is one of the 'conclusions' that the user of this site will come away with. Globalisation is the formation of yet another meta-structure, just like Nationalism was two hundred years earlier. We know the dangers of Nationalism and 'mono-interpretations', lets hope that no nation, no community, nor no individual can ever singularly interpret 'the global'. What I hope that a user of this site will learn is how to articulate what is local and what is global and the relationships between them. This is difficult and speculative but it needs to be taught in language that people can understand either through a local history approaches like this one, or through some other means. My challenge to globalisation theorist such as Castells and Langhorne is to entertain more cultural sophistication in their work as it takes an extraordinary amount of arrogance to adumbratively discuss such a vast amount of humanity.

3. Should the practice of humanities computing be changed or modified in the light of your work? What is your contribution to that domain?

It should be broadened to include humanities knowledge and approaches from more schools. There is a large field in Australia developing around cultural studies and media studies that is now claiming the high ground of Internet discourse (however it is not practice based and often only focuses on how technology is used in the popular and market sphere). I have gone to extraordinary efforts, some of which are just now baring fruit, to at least get this group to acknowledge that humanities actually have their own field. The split that I see developing in how computers are used in the humanities in Australia is between 'New Media' and 'Humanities Computing'. New Media is more design based and hypertextual, uses popularly available consumer software, employs an argument, and has larger popular audiences. Humanities computing is closer to the library and information sciences, is centred upon canonised academic knowledge, is usually text based, does not usually have an argument, and is more often that not within schools that have a greater academic and economic ability for helmsmanship within the technological jungle. My work for a number of reasons is situated in the 'new media' end of humanities computing, but is hopefully a segue between the two.

4. You say that the user has to "put in a little bit of time and effort and has to search to understand the community." If you possess such "understanding," why not offer it to the reader/user?

In some ways I do offer my own understandings because all of the people that I found to interview were of my own selection (along with all the other parameters that the site was constructed within). As argued in the section on hypertext, I am positioning the thesis that; yes this is my authorship, but I am relinquishing some of this authority to the user so that they can challenge my authorship. Perhaps this approach to authorship would not work on other historical enquiries, but in this one where I am trying to argue historical complexity, multiplicity, and community diversity within what we understand as 'the global' then I feel that it is effective.

I am also trying to demonstrate a process and it took quite a long time to find an historical question worthy of this process. This is still only a very small view of Fitzroy, however if I have had interviewed all of the sixteen thousand residents of Fitzroy, I doubt any of the major themes that I touched upon would have been that much different. There is the historical personal experience that I bought to the selection process and expression.

posted by Craig Bellamy at Friday, March 28, 2003

Thursday, March 20, 2003

Here is a list of questions and replies that were directed at milkbar.com.au by one of the assessors of this work. (Part One)

Engaging with the Project

1. How do you want people to use your site?

Electronic publishing is unpredictable in terms of determining your audience because different audiences will use a site in differing ways. Surprisingly, the feedback that I have received from many general on-line readers is that they liked the photos of the milkbars and would like to see more of them! However, how I hoped that the general audience would view the site is by first reading the instructions on the first page, and then proceed to the videos in the local (or even global) section. The local section is easily palatable as it is a similar literacy to television meaning that you press the 'on' button and the videos play from A to B. It is also intentionally in a lower band width (40kbs) because most people do not have access to broad-band connections. I was particularly worried that the people that I interviewed in Fitzroy would not have access to the interviews that I gathered, so I made the 'local' section as accessible as possible. I did not envisage that the general reader would read the thesis component nor would be interested in the debates that surround electronic publishing in the humanities. A research audience is much more attuned to searching for evidence and perhaps the thesis component would be much more interesting to them.

2. who do you think will read this? Who is the audience?

This is connected to the first question, but in reflection, if this was not a Ph.D qualification I would have embarked on a very different project. The audience for a PhD in my mind is always the peers in your field. There has been a great tension in this work in terms of it already being 'published' in the popular sphere and sometime this can be at odds with an academic field which is concerned with specialist and esoteric knowledge. Perhaps the better suited history projects in this medium are popular histories to take advantage of larger audiences. There is some highly esoteric knowledge in history that is not augmented by popular distribution. Local histories and popular 'peoples' histories are particular well suited for the Internet as they are for the mediums of television and film.

3. What constitutes having read you thesis? Should the reader have
listened to/watched all the clips?

No, I really didn't expect anyone to do this (however I did meet a hairdresser on Smith Street who told me that he watched them all).
What I expected the reader/user to do is to view as many clips as they wanted until their curiosity was satisfied. Yes, this is a little open-ended, but so too is the local communities in which we live. The user is invited to view the videos in any order and in any sequence, has complete control over begin and end times, and had multiple access. The user can gain an insightful view into Fitzroy through some of its inhabitants, however this can never be conclusive. The user has to put a little bit of time and effort and has to search a little to understand the community.

4. Why not edit the clips?

They are already edited in a sense from the moment that I picked up the camera. However, editing in terms of 'cutting' like in film and television, does not make a lot of sense in this medium. It is usually one-to-one and as previously stated, the user has complete (24 hour-access) control over begin and end times and what (and when) they want to see it. I thought that the film would be of more value to other researchers if I did not cut it and would reveal more of the process of constructing it. The films is 'edited' however in terms of the search points in the SMAFE engine (in the global section) as the viewer can only see the segments of the film that I deemed important for these categories.

5. On page 42, you say that the user writes their own history ;
what do you expect them to write?

It would be difficult for any user of this site not to come away from it with the sense that local communities and local identities are alive and well (but they do face threats). The users who I have witnessed using the site usually do so through engaging with the recorded videos of the people that they identify with the most. Perhaps this is indicative of how they engage with the broader community at large. Age is a very important factor or even how 'cool' the participants look. What I expect the participants to write in terms of history is perhaps the sense that history is not mono-vocal nor is it advanced easily. Communities are complex and have various opinions about what constitutes a community. This methodological and technical approach may work well for this project, but in other areas of historical study it may not be suitable.

Clarification of Content

6. Do you have any conclusions about globalization?

There needs to be more grounded local studies of its effects and I have only touched the surface of it understanding in this project.
It is a literacy that is in its infancy, say unlike 'nationalism' that can in fact be readily demonstrated and articulated in a local community. My major conclusion about globalisation is that it is the formation of yet another 'meta-structure like the local, the state, and the national. The local contains many elements of 'the global', but some people like myself through technologies such as this have access to this structures whilst others don't.

7. Is this project about globalization or about trying to do humanities
computing?

It is a project about the local/global nexus within the field of humanities computing. The content is the local/global nexus but many of the processes that I have used are within humanities computing. They are inextricable linked.

8. On 9/11/02 you wrote in your journal: The work is becoming far too
process oriented, which may detract from the original reason of the
work. Do you still feel this way?

Yes I admit that I do in many ways and this has always been another tension in this work. The content for this work was created specifically for it which is very rare in humanities computing practice. If I was dealing with a already existing archive then the process would have been much more central component. I don't know if it is a good idea that humanists should always strive for the 'cutting edge' of technology, it is best for us to determine what technologies best address a specific historical problem. Process for the sake of process doesn't really do it for me.

9. On page 46-7, you say new schools have an approach that suits the
authorship of their particular institutional traditions What does
this mean?

A prickly question not easily addressed, but the humanities is broad and non-egalitarian and crosses numerous institutions cultures and trajectories. We would hope that the newer schools are more socially progressive in terms of drawing from a more diverse (and nouveau) student population. There are questions of equity and innovation that humanities in the newer schools address and the older more privileged schools do not. This is linked to the technologies that are available to the students and the choices that they make on what is important for their studies.

10. What do you think of TEI and standards? Are they good or bad?

I think they are good for particular historical problems but not for others. For preserving and distributing digital facsimiles of say Seventeenth Century Dutch canal maps they are wonderful, but in terms of this project they are not that useful. The TEI is a good example of 'institutional authorship' meaning that they are important standards for the schools that invented them and their institutional focus (ie. preserve the traces of human culture over time through traditional approaches to education) but for progressive and innovative schools that have a much more contemporary focus they are perhaps not as useful.

posted by Craig Bellamy at Thursday, March 20, 2003

Tuesday, March 18, 2003

Dear Craig,

The process for the 'Q&A' component of your PhD examination has been established and endorsed by the RGS Exams sub-committee. Copied below are the details of the approved process. The same information has also been provided to the examiners, as well as your Senior Supervisor and the Chair of the Q&A component.

The proposed arrangements will be as follows:

1. The question and answer 'window' will be open from Wednesday March 19 to Friday March 28 2003. The times and dates refer to Melbourne time.
2. There will be two rounds of questions and answers.
3. The Chair will collect the questions from the examiners on Wed 19 and Wed 26 March.
4. At a time agreed in advance between the Chair and the candidate, the questions will be presented to the candidate by the Chair, either face-to-face or virtually.
5. The candidate will provide the Chair with responses to the questions (preferably a single paragraph and not more than 500 words per question) within not more than two hours. The candidate will not research nor consult (eg with their supervisor) during the preparation of their responses.
6. The Chair will convey these responses to the respective examiners by the end of the day on Fri 21 and Fri 28 March.
7. The role of the Chair is to act as moderator of the question and answer component of the examination by receiving questions from examiners and conveying these to the candidate; then receiving the candidate's responses and conveying these to the examiners. As a moderator, the Chair will seek to ensure that the questions and answers are appropriate and in context. Examiners are requested to not communicate with the candidate directly prior to the completion of this examination.
8. The Chair of this examination will be (name suppressed) from RMIT.

Guidelines on the Question and Answer Component and Process
- The purpose of this process is to allow the examiners to raise questions they may have regarding the work with the candidate, and for the candidate to be able to respond in a timely and informed manner to these questions to assist them in their examination of the work.
- It is intended that this question and answer component will allow for clarification of the project methodology, process and/or content in relation to what is being examined.
- All communication between the examiners and the candidate will be channeled through the examination Chair. The Chair will convey questions from the examiners to the candidate, and responses from the candidate to the examiner who posed the question: there will be a separate, one-on-one dialogue between each examiner and the candidate.
- The examination Chair, (name suppressed) will establish email contact with the examiners prior to March 19 to enable the question and answer component to commence and to ensure that you have an appropriate point and means of contact.

Please feel free to contact (name suppressed) or myself if you have any questions regarding the above.

regards
(name suppressed)

posted by Craig Bellamy at Tuesday, March 18, 2003

Saturday, March 08, 2003

Hi Craig-

Congratulations on your lovely site. I discovered it through the mailbox 'Fitzroyal' publication, and recognised your name/ project from long ago-

We met briefly at the Napier last year through Rory Hyde- sitting outside and birthing the idea of the global:local McDonald's flip-book. [a sad story that one, the book was never realised due to a number of issues]

It's great to see the site up and your vision realised, you must be justifiably proud.

When i saw the picture of the Olympia milkbar [in Annandale] on your site, I wanted to share with you a write-up of that establishment in a favourite zine of mine. Perhaps you have already seen it, but if not -

It is in 'I Am A Camera 7', which is by Vanessa Berry, a talented Sydney writer. The issue is all about memory, places and change, which was of great interest to an archi nerd like myself. [i read pretty much everything she publishes anyway as she is a lovely writer]
You can get a copy from Sticky in Campbell Arcade [underground next to Flinders St Station, enter from Degraves], or from the Melbourne zine distro smittenkitten thru mailorder - http://www.smittenkitten.net/ If the zine has sold out or something i can photocopy the story for you and post it.

Hope this finds you well, congrats again on the site & good luck in PhD land

sincerely,
Cara Wiseman

posted by Craig Bellamy at Saturday, March 08, 2003

Sunday, December 01, 2002

From: "jirayu" jirayu@sasktel.net
To: milkbar@milkbar.com.au
Subject: Comment from milkbar.com.au
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 04:39:18 -0600

Dear Mr. Bellamy,

i've read part of your thesis and will continue reading through the whole thesis soon.
your thesis is something that i once wanted to do for my Ph.D., too bad i am too slow coz you've got it already.
well well well, not exactly like mine though.
anyhow, i've changed my focus for my Ph.D. to be something else but your thesis is still very relavant for me especially the part that you mentioned about the oral-history.

i really like the uses of language in your thesis because i am an international student, in order to get a high-level of vocab kicked in takes more time for me. and i always expect to be one of a theorist that bring difficult theories which cause by theoretical language comes to its easiness.

it is fasinating when considering how can this cyber evolution will lead our humanities, societies and human cognition. and i am glad that we are part of that.

best wishes, your work is awesome!
Jirayu Uttaranakorn

posted by Craig Bellamy at Sunday, December 01, 2002

Wednesday, October 23, 2002

Delivered-To: milkbar.com.au-milkbar@milkbar.com.au
X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 6.0.2
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 08:59:48 +1000
From: "Judy Maxwell" judy.maxwell@rmit.edu.au
To: milkbar@milkbar.com.au
Subject: Re: Milkbar.com.au: Globalisation and the Everyday City

Hi Craig,

You may not remember me - I'm in Michael Singh's postgrad Wed. evening group doing a PhD on reconceptualising the PhD thesis. I just wanted to congratulate you on your website. This is the most refreshingly easy-to-navigate website I've ever used! Your chatty, friendly language is welcoming and there is a fresh, interesting look to it. The content is brilliant (and also very useful for my own PhD - I may want to contact you further down the track if this is OK). This, to me, is how the Internet SHOULD be! Congratulations again,

Cheers,

Judy

posted by Craig Bellamy at Wednesday, October 23, 2002

Tuesday, October 22, 2002

Delivered-To: milkbar@localhost
Delivered-To: milkbar.com.au-milkbar@milkbar.com.au
X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 6.0.2
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 14:18:59 +1000
From: "Laura Brearley" laura.brearley@rmit.edu.au
To: milkbar@milkbar.com.au
Subject: Re: Milkbar.com.au: Globalisation and the Everyday City

Hi Craig
I found your work fascinating and brave. It needs more time than I have been able to give it today to do it full justice, but I applaud the adventurous of your inquiry and the spirit of combined rigour and fun which imbues the work.

Good on you
Laura

Dr Laura Brearley
Senior Lecturer/Manager Organisational Development
Office of the Dean
Faculty of Education, Language and Community Services
Email: laura.brearley@rmit.edu.au
Location: 220 : 2 : 18
Postal address: PO Box 71, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia 3083

posted by Craig Bellamy at Tuesday, October 22, 2002

Monday, October 14, 2002

Delivered-To: milkbar@localhost
Delivered-To: milkbar.com.au-milkbar@milkbar.com.au
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 10:56:38 +1000
Subject: Quicktime problem update
From: Linda Barwick
To: Craig Bellamy

Hi Craig
I've fixed the problem. It wasn't OS but browser setting problem - I had to reconfigure my browser to read SMIL files using the Quicktime plugin rather than handle by post-processing with application Quicktime Player - the default setting installed by QT player pro. Hope this info is useful for
others.

Linda Barwick

posted by Craig Bellamy at Monday, October 14, 2002

Delivered-To: milkbar@localhost
Delivered-To: milkbar.com.au-milkbar@milkbar.com.au
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 09:53:08 +1000
Subject: Comment from milkbar.com.au
From: Linda Barwick lbarwick@zip.com.au
To: milkbar@milkbar.com.au

Hi Craig
Fascinated. Wish I had time to listen to all the interviews. I have
broadband and no problem with playing them, but time is the big factor (the one I listened to about 5 minutes of was 14 minutes long). Have you thought of setting up some smaller files with extracts of the best bits from the longer interviews?

Good luck
Linda Barwick
Ashfield, Sydney
PS I linked to your site via www.ehum.edu.au - I'm interested in research uses of digital audio and video

posted by Craig Bellamy at Monday, October 14, 2002

Thursday, October 10, 2002

Hola!

I enjoy your universe Craig. It is a petty I do not have broadband and therefore can not listen to the interviews, but the little I have seen of the sight gives me a nice rebellious feeling. You take on some huge subjects, for exampel in your manifesto, and come up with a lot of interesting, original and wellwritten ideas. The way you in the open weave your self in to the projekt is what I think all social scientists, historians and maybe most of all journalists should do. I hate the hipocrite way of presenting your self as neutral observer in articles and projekts, where your values and lifeexperience are not really suppose to shine threw and the the better you hide them the better it is. It is just bullshit. Even if the critical tradition of social sciences have another approach, it is stills affects lot of what is written there as well. And newspappers, well...
The small "shortcuts" you make to Tasmania, politic or our your fathers diving andventures are great. (Pellondiving on fictive mines can also be quite fun.) I think you would like my neighberhood: Möllevången, here in Malmö. It has some of the same features as Fitzroy, which I liked alot. It was the first workerssuburb built in Malmö; the first houses where build 1907 and my house which is close to "Möllevångstorget"is build in 1920. It is still a very "red" area, whith some seriuos greens spots like me around nowdays, and the workers have mostly become immigrants and students.
I am thinking of going to European Social Forum in Florens in November. Do you have any friends who are going there? Well, take care Craig.

Your friend in the struggle
Per Ole

posted by Craig Bellamy at Thursday, October 10, 2002

Friday, August 16, 2002

Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 11:01:12 +0930
Subject: milkbar
From: claudia raddatz claudia@anat.org.au
To: milkbar@milkbar.com.au

Dear Craig ... i like your site very much ... there are lots of good ideas
and i like the manifesto ... do you think its 'spectre is haunting' the
cyberspace already ... history is just a collection of stories told from thepoint of view of the winners ... i come from chile and in 1982 i was in
england ... i have heard all about CORPORATIZATION (so called modernization of the economy) 3 times around, including this third time in australia ...same discourse, word by word ... from the 'children' of milton friedman, over and over again ... GREED TOOK OVER and now we live in societies where there is no compassion, over generalizations and a total disregards for the PUBLIC GOOD ... it is good to find sites like milkbar
a big smile, claudia {;-)

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posted by Craig Bellamy at Friday, August 16, 2002

Wednesday, August 14, 2002

From: Irene Crusada

Hi Craig,

Thanks to you for your presentation - it was just right for the opening night and your interactive approach - which encouraged discussion was also helpful and interesting.I suddenly realised what the difference is between someone doing a thesis, 10 or 20 years ago and someone currently engaged in research. Current research seems to exist on two planes - it seems to be of a more self-conscious (the trendy theory word is self-reflexive) nature in that it incorporates into its hyothesis both the object of discourse/ideological approach as well as the questioning of ideology and representation, in your case through history, in mine for example, I am as much interested in Crown as a representation of power as i am in the power of representations - the one-sided, exclusive dimension of representation that therefore reflects ideology -
Representation is something that can't be avoided, and yet in this post-structural era its problematic nature is constantly highlighted. I wonder what it might lead to.

Anyway that's what i think, I think we think a lot about what we are thinking....this is possibly why i am no longer practising art..no time to pracise - time needed for thinking..... and this thought arrived after your seminar and the group discussion that followed.

See you at the next seminar,

Irene.

posted by Craig Bellamy at Wednesday, August 14, 2002

Monday, July 15, 2002

Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:43:02 +0900
Subject: Re: about milkbar
From: raku@nb.xdsl.ne.jp
To: Craig Bellamy

Dear Craig Bellamy

I am making the booklet.It is the quarterly of THE NATIONAL DAIRY PROMOTION AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATION of Japan.Then, it will introduce about the milkbar in the world lately.So I want to know about the milkbar in Australia.Please tell me about the milkbar.

Best Regards

Yasuyo Honda

posted by Craig Bellamy at Monday, July 15, 2002

Saturday, July 13, 2002

Hi, Craig,

Being rather hard pressed for time this week, I suggested my daughter have a look at your website and offer constructive comments. She came up with the following:

I'd suggest refining the background images on the page that you are first taken to. It's a bit difficult to discern between the writing and the image. If you could somehow decrease their 'blurriness', perhaps by decreasing the image size or by altering the pixels they are presented in... Otherwise, I think the site is fine.

Hope this might be of some assistance in relation to the look/design,

All the best,

Lyn

Dr Lyn Gorman
Acting Dean, Faculty of Arts
Charles Sturt University
Locked Bag 588
Wagga Wagga NSW 2678

posted by Craig Bellamy at Saturday, July 13, 2002

Friday, June 21, 2002

Craig

I stumbled across your site yesterday, following up my interests in local history on the web, and discovered a common ancestral link with the bushranger Francis Fitzmaurice. If you would like to read more about Francis Fitzmaurice, I recently compiled a file on him for a local researcher and would be happy to send you an electronic copy.

I thought it was fascinating that two people descended from this man should find themselves occupied in a similar field over a century down the track. Like you I grew up in NW Tas (at Burnie), but my interest in history is a fairly recent thing - developing out of a project to produce a people's history of the Tamar region. http://www.onthetide.com

Francis Fitzmaurice was my grandmother's grandfather, and his career as a bushranger in NSW and Tasmania was a very interesting one, revealing a man of tremendous courage and determination, with a very broad anti-authoritarian streak and a brilliant sense of humour. I have always been very proud to claim him as an ancestor.

best wishes
Peter Richardson

Peter Richardson
Project Manager
Tasmania's eHeritage
Launceston Library
Civic Square
Launceston Tas 7250
Ph 03 6336 2418
Mob 0438 362 418
Fax 03 6336 2624
www.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/eheritage

posted by Craig Bellamy at Friday, June 21, 2002

Friday, June 07, 2002

From: "Nicky Boyd" NikBoyd@hotmail.com
To:
Subject: your site is cool
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 18:52:16 +1000

Hi - I just found your site when I did a search on globalisation and community economy. I'm in the process of putting together an ethical consumer guide for West End in Brisbane, and I'd like to publish your web site in the section on globalisation and local communities. I'd also like to include a link to your site from ours, which is www.spiral.org.au

This current project stemmed from my Master thesis which was about 'community responses to globalisation. It was an action - research process with an intentional community in West End officially, but really I just made my mates sit around and talk about globalisation. Anyway we developed a community action framework for personal - local - global action in response to globalisation. I also applied the framework to a local campaign to save inner city bushland and to global action such as s11, which I was at. It was good to look at the photos again, I especially like the one with a a couple of people were talking to the cops who were leaning over the road blocks - it was a very sweet image. Anyway - I could email you a copy of my thesis if you're interested - it's based in community development theory - so it's a different approach to the work your doing, but also explores the connections between peoples experience of changing neighbourhoods and their views on globalisation. I could email you a copy if your interested.

really liked your site, cheers,
Amelia
amelia_spiral@uq.net.au

posted by Craig Bellamy at Friday, June 07, 2002

Saturday, June 01, 2002

From: "Georgie Smibert" gsmibert@hotmail.com
To: milkbar@milkbar.com.au
Bcc:
Subject: Globalisation and culture
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 10:27:29 +0000

Hey there Craig,
I was just looking at your milkbar website and found it really interesting.
I'm George and I'm at Melb Uni. I'm currently writing an essay on people's responses to Starbucks on Lygon street. - basically wanting to see how Australians feel about big chain stores (particularly American!!) opening up in Australia. This topic interests me as i am quite angry about the whole thing. Many people have responded negatively to Starbucks (surprise surprise!) on Lygon, either because they hate the coffee, or they hate the idea of a big American coffee company trying to push its way into Melbourne's Little Italy. I'm particularly interested in the latter. I think a lot of people are sad that food franchises/chains are taking away the character and culture. If you have any time, I would be very interested in your view on globalisation, particularly the cultural aspects, and also what you think of Starbucks on Lygon street!

George :)

PS - when i searched for "globalisation in australia" on google - i was asked "do you mean 'globalization in australia'" ha!

posted by Craig Bellamy at Saturday, June 01, 2002

Wednesday, May 29, 2002

To:
From: julian@uraniannights.com
Subject: time machine
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 19:33:42 -0000
Organization: Uranian Nights dotcom / KathyCooper.net

Howdy,

At the bottom of;
http://www.milkbar.com.au/begin1.html
There's a 'Last Updated' bit at the bottom. Now I gather from the text on
the page, you are Australian and live in Australia. (i don't know of any
other place that has a Fitzroy in a Melbourne, do you?) So why would the
date either be in U.S. format, or incorrect (ahead of time)?

Ahh... I just took a look at your source code, and see that you use a script
to display the date last modified. Want it to automatically put the date
correctly? I put a page together (quite some time ago, and looks pretty
bodgey) that has some scripty stuff on there, and one especially for dates
in Australian format.
url: http://www.uraniannights.com/www/gooroo.cjb.net/simplejava.html
The script you'll want is at the bottom. There's only four scripts there, so
it'll only take a moment to find.

Have fun,

Julian.

(free website designer)

Webmaster:
http://kathycooper.net
http://deadsetfreestuff.cjb.net

Interesting Sites:
http://kcshopfree.cjb.net
http://gomobile.cjb.net
http://www.cjb.net
http://www.icdirect.com

posted by Craig Bellamy at Wednesday, May 29, 2002

Tuesday, May 28, 2002

From: "Dion Teasdale" brownsuit@hotmail.com
To: milkbar@milkbar.com.au
Bcc:
Subject: Milkbar Connection
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 09:49:00 +1100

Hey Craig,

My name is Dion Teasdale. I've just visted your milkbar website for the first time and I wanted to drop you a line and tell you that I'm very interested in your work.

I'm currently studying for a Master of Arts in Creative Writing at RMIT. The practical component of my studies is the writing of a novel. It is titled, 'The Goose At Goldie's Milkbar' and, set in rural Victoria, it is the story of the relationship between an elderly female milkbar proprietor and the goose she rescues and rehabilitates.

While the focus of my exegesis is the use of human/animal relationships as a narrative tool in creative writing, there are a couple of areas in your work which are of particular interest to me.

Firstly, the 'milkbar' is a very potent symbol for your work and is very central to my narrative. I like the photographs you have on your website and I am wondering what other information you have collected about milkbars. I've noted one reference from your Bibliography (Collins, Jock. 'A Shop Full of Dreams: Ethic Small Business in Australia'. Pluto Press. Sydney 1995.), which I'm keen to take a look at, but if you have any other milkbar specific material I'd love to hear about it.

I've come across some pretty amazing milkbars in my travels (there's a great one here in Middle Park and an even better one in Port Melbourne, not to mention the excellent milkbar in Heathcote, on the Hume Highway - just to mention a few). As my novel in set in rural Victoria (the fictional township of Baxter's Creek which is caught in the grips of 'rural decline'), I have a particular interest in milkbars from small country towns. The milkbar in my story, Goldie's Milkbar, sits on the main street of Baxter's Creek, Monty Street, and has been closed for almost a decade. At the beginning of the story, Goldie, the proprietor, still lives out the back of the boarded up shop in a run down, three bedroom, sorry excuse for a house. During the course of the story, with the help of the goose, Goldie re-opens the milkbar. Small business fights back.

This might all sound rather strange and unrelated to you and your work, but I think there are a few cross over points.

In addition to the whole 'milkbar' thing, I am very interested in the online presentation of your work. My supervisor, Dr Katherine Phelps, completed a Phd on Digital and Computer-Mediated Storytelling and she is encouraging me to consider publishing my work (as it progresses) online. I hadn't found a good example of someone doing this until I came across your site. I've read through your methodology and am keen to see how your site develops in the near future. The interview content looks fantastic.

Finally, I also have a keen interest in documenting community-based stories. I have some experience in doing this. In 1999 I was invovled in a collaborative theatre project with a professinal theatre company from Melbourne (Arena Theatre) and a group of chronically ill and disabled teenagers based in Gellong. As the writer for the project I spent 10 weeks doing workshops with the young people before producing a script for a theatre production. The show was called 'Chronic' and it was inspired by the real life stories of the young people and performed by them as well. In 2000, I was commissoned by the Department of Human Services to document the process of creating community based theatre projects with ill/disabled young people and the resulting book, which brings together interviews with 40 of the project's participants, is like a written documentary of the production process and it was published in 2001.

Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that your site and your work are very impressive. If you have any information about 'milkbars' which you would be willing to share or have any questions about me or my work, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Keep up the good work.

Regards,

Dion Teasdale

posted by Craig Bellamy at Tuesday, May 28, 2002

From: "Michael Singh" michael.singh@rmit.edu.au
To: milkbar@milkbar.com.au
Subject:
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 16:34:22 +1100

Hi Craig,

(snip)
I would be especially pleased if you could bring along a computer and organise a presentation of your site and the project you are working on.

I had a quick look at it - and noticed that you describe Tasmania as an island off the south coast of Australia - while this is a common statement - and may even be the preferred view of independent minded Tasmania's - it is still the case that Tasmania is a part of Australia (the nation-state).
(snip)

All the very best with finalising your PhD project.

Michael

-------------------------------------------------------------
Professor Michael Singh
Director of RMIT Globalisation and Cultural
Diversity Research Concentration
Head, RMIT Language and International Studies
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posted by Craig Bellamy at Tuesday, May 28, 2002

Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 12:45:42 +0200
From: Johan Kok
Organization: Lumage, illuminated Products
To: milkbar@milkbar.com.au
Subject: info

Dear sir,
Is it possible to tell me how do you select he interviewed persons and
how did you choose the questions?
I am preparing for a phd proposal in globalization and I also want to
use interviews.
With regards,
M. Kok
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posted by Craig Bellamy at Tuesday, May 28, 2002

From: "Narayanan Rakunathan"
To: milkbar@milkbar.com.au
Subject: Thank you!
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 23:47:04 +0800

Hi,

I'm a librarian from Singapore...formerly a teacher, did my masters in info studies ...contemplating PhD in "archival informatics and hypertext" or "integrating archival material into history curriculum using hypertext stories" ...something like that...

thank you very much for your bibliography...great leads!!
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posted by Craig Bellamy at Tuesday, May 28, 2002

Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 17:06:08 -0600 (CST)
From: "Lynn H. Nelson"
To: Craig Bellamy
cc: Lynn H. Nelson
Subject: Re: site (fwd)

Hello, Craig;

I was happy to add your site, partly because, although I've run
into the term "milk bar," I had little idea of what it was, and
those people who should have known had difficulty in explaining
the institution to me.

I also looked over the rest of your site and, in a phrase which
may or may not be current Down Under, I like the cut of your jib.
Contrary to public opinion in much of the world, there are, and
there have been for some time, leftists in the United States.
We've been kept down pretty well, though - by murder, prison,
deportation, and being send to Coventry. I have a couple of old
friends - we're all about seventy - who come over occasionally to
sip a few and lament the state of the nation. I thought that
things were bad in 1947, 1954, 1980, 1986, but have been cast
into the Slough of despond by the coup of 2000. Having spent some
years in Texas, I know his type and despise it.

In any event, I doing what I can given my age and physical
disabilities. You note WWW-VL History in your index of links. If
you will look closely, you may find that I am attempting to
ensure that our users - about a thousand a day, all told - get
both sides of the story. I recently compiled indexes for the
history of Australia and New Zealand, but was unable to do what I
considered a good job since I lacked the local connections to
ferret out enough of a variety of history sites to present a
balanced selection. New Zealand now has its own maintainer and
should develop with time, but Australia still lacks its own lord
and master. Consequently, I would like to invite you to join us.

And now for the ubiquitous form letter.

I would appreciate your looking through this form letter, which provides a
basic introduction to the nature of our project and is sent to every
person invited to join us.

If you would access
,
you will see the Central Catalogue of the network we are attempting to
construct, and within which you may note that only those subjects
listed in bold face are in the hands of their own maintainers. You should
then access

which provides specific information on our organization, aims and
progress.

WWW-VL History is, like all WWW-VL sites, completely unfunded, and the
maintainers of its sites are unpaid volunteers. Each is a fully-fledged
member of WWW-VL and this, since WWW-VL was the first "Virtual Library" of
the resources of the web, is something of a distinction, although one
appreciated only within rather restricted circles. WWW-VL offers some
additional attractions, including a discussion list closed to all but
maintainers, connections with a sizable and growing international group of
colleagues, and the opportunity to work within an active group that shares
an idea - even if it is rather vague - about what it hopes to do.
Nevertheless, it is not an easy matter to find volunteers to join us, and
we could not provide effective coverage if we were to wait for new members
to help us provide it.

I have been constructing indexes for separate countries to provide such
coverage and so that people wishing to join our group would be able simply
to copy them to their own site and develop them as they see fit. Since the
basic organization and construction is already in place, the maintenance
and development of an index consists primarily of 1) finding and
installing relevant new sites as they appear, 2) checking the links to
eliminate those that have been abandoned and to modify those the address
of which has been changed, 3) responding to recommendations of sites and
perhaps developing ties with resource centers and the like, and 4)
developing any additional historical areas or subjects you think
appropriate. An index should normally require only about two hours a week
to maintain in satisfactory fashion. I might add that I will find a place
for an index if the prospective maintainer has no such resource available.

Most of the Indexes I have constructed are merely beginnings since my
command of languages is restricted to those of western Europe and I cannot
pretend to be an expert in all of these fields. Our eventual goal is to
have an individual maintainer for each of our indexes, or groups of
maintainers for those topics not easily covered by a single person, but
that will require time and good fortune in finding the right people.

Please consider this invitation as an opportunity to over the entire world
a service by making knowledge available of a field in which you have
special skills and an abiding interest.

If you have any questions, I would be happy to try to answer them.

Lynn

Lynn Harry Nelson
lhnelson@raven.cc.ku.edu
Professor Emeritus of History
University of Kansas
Lawrence Kansas 66045-2030
USA
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posted by Craig Bellamy at Tuesday, May 28, 2002

From: Katja
To: milkbar@milkbar.com.au
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 14:56:37 -0500
X-Mailer: Netscape Webmail
Subject: local history wired
X-Accept-Language: en

Hi, Craig,

I live in Washington, DC, a town with no milkbars, strange politics and
lots of cars and I really liked your site. Roy Rosenzweig from the
Center for History and New Media gave me the URL (and told me to say
HI), since I am working on a proposal for a class project on putting
the history of a local park, Malcolm X/Meridian Hill Park, online. The
project, which is still a toddler, will present oral histories with
residents on their memories and perceptions of the park, which is why
your site is really interesting to me.

For the project, it would greatly help me to get your reflections on a
couple of ideas, since your local history project has been online for
quite a while....

I'd be happy to call you, but since you live in Australia and the time
difference is so big, it will be easiest to do it via e-mail -- is that
o.k.?

First, I am curious how the people of Fitzroy use your site -- do they
go online a lot? Do they give you feedback? And if they do, how do you
incorporate the feedback into the site?

I really liked your oral histories, because they are genuinely designed
for the Web and are audible -- which software did you use? And how did
you manage to keep them so short?

Great -- I hope I am not bothering you and am looking forward to
hearing from you,

Cheers, Katja
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posted by Craig Bellamy at Tuesday, May 28, 2002

Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 17:27:46 +1100
From: Julian Silverman
To:
Subject: Re: milkbar site

Thanks Craig

I finally got to look at the site and I loved it.

Its a very interesting site and its put together in a really coherant way. I like the humour in it as ell!

See you around the faculty i hope

Cheers

Julian
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posted by Craig Bellamy at Tuesday, May 28, 2002

From: Julian Savage
To: milkbar@milkbar.com.au
Bcc:
Subject: Maps
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 17:09:35 +1000

Map making, along with bibles, book of hours (personal spiritual guidance texts), government legislation and insignia (titles, licences, etc) and accountancy were the earliest (hand) printed dcuments. Maps began as a Eurocentric conflagration of the unknown - one does not need a map of one's own backyard because one can traverse it relatively assuredly. Therefor maps were more often than not of 'the known world' (i.e, the world outside one's backyard) and closely linked to expansion and colonialism - the need to travel somewhere safely in order to conquer, exploit, etc. As I presume the jefferson village is about as global as the village seen by doncaster councillors peering confusedly into their virtual one, one can ascertain that the points of reference (pun intended) have not really changed. An image comes to mind: t(here) stands the 'explorer/academic/councillor' telescope pressed up against the eye, trying to focus on the one remaining follicle left on the pate of a colleague who is reassuringly t(here) in the mapped world.
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posted by Craig Bellamy at Tuesday, May 28, 2002

Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 08:26:26 -0400
To: Craig Bellamy
From: Jay Ruby
Subject: Re: Oak Park

Craig,

I will look at your site as soon as our exams are over. I have a small listserv DIGETH for people involved in making digital ethnographies. I am certain subsrbiers would like to know about your work. Shall I subscribe you?

Jay Ruby
Temple University
PO Box 128, Mifflintown, PA 17059

My Web page is http://www.temple.edu/anthro/ruby/jayruby.html

Link to my new book, Picturing Culture - http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/13964.ctl

Link to a description of my ethnographic study of Oak Park, IL - http://astro.ocis.temple.edu/~ruby/opp
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posted by Craig Bellamy at Tuesday, May 28, 2002

Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 09:12:10 +1100
To: milkbar@milkbar.com.au
From: Helen Morgan
Subject: Link to Federation and Meteorology
Cc: gavan@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au, joannee@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au

Dear Craig,

I was very pleased to find a link to the Federation and Meteorology website
at milkbar.com.au and interested to read your comments (feedback of this
nature is always great and we need more of it!). The site was not, however,
developed by Tim Sherratt, but by the Australian Science and Technology
Heritage Centre at the University of Melbourne. I can see how this reading
might occur from the "Design & content" reference to Tim on the few
exhibition pages at the front (the only pages designed by Tim, who was one
of many contributing authors), although the DC metatag NAME="DC.Creator" LANG="en" CONTENT="Australian Science and Technology
Heritage Centre"> on all the pages clearly states we are the creator. Could
you please correct this information on your pages? I have removed the
reference so there is no further misunderstanding.

Cheers,
Helen
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Helen Morgan - Research and Development
Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
Phone: +61 3 8344 9373 Fax: +61 3 9349 4630
AustehcWeb! on http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au
-----> Austehc - Discover Australia's Scientific Heritage
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posted by Craig Bellamy at Tuesday, May 28, 2002

From: "alexis galatariotis" gala_al@hotmail.com
To: milkbar@milkbar.com.au
Bcc:
Subject: hi
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 20:43:46 +0000
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Apr 2002 20:43:46.0964 (UTC) FILETIME=[EBB50540:01C1D9BD]

Hi, i read your articles on globalisation and i found them both very interesting and well researched. I have a project to do on globalisation and i would really appreciate it if you could give me an opinon on it or some useful sites you might have written or read. My project question has the following title : "Is globalisation eroding the power and individuality of local communities?"

I hope you can help, thanks a lot

Alexander
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posted by Craig Bellamy at Tuesday, May 28, 2002

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