[Buddha-l] FW: ADMINISTRIVIA> Asian Studies WWW Monitor is now 16 Years Old

[JKirkpatrick]

I'm guessing that denizens of this list have gratefully resorted
to many of Matthew Ciolek's Asian Studies Monitor sites from time
to time, as I have. Nice to learn today about the Batish Inst. of
Indian Music in Santa Cruz, Cal. (where else?), which was
announced before I got my computer and began visiting websites.

Cheers to the ASWWWM~~~~~~~
Joanna


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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor:  late Apr 2010, Vol. 17, No. 6
(311)
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21 Apr 2010

Asian Studies WWW Monitor is now 16 Years Old

Internet Publications Bureau, ANU College of Asia and the
Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

A note from the Editor:
"'The Asian Studies WWW Monitor' (ISSN 1329-9778
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html) was established
21 April 1994.
Today the pioneering electronic journal has turned Sixteen.

The initial postings of the Monitor were made first on the 21
April 1994, and then, for the second time, on the 5th June 1994.
Yes. The past is a foreign country and so the things and
developments, even electronic ones, happen there at an
undemanding, leisurely pace. 
Sixteen years ago scholarly useful information would appear
somewhere online with a truly glacial rapidity; say, a useful,
shyly published and scantily announced Asian-Studies' item would
appear on the Net every now and then, sometime even (oh horribile
dictu!, oh the head-spinning, vertiginous e-recklesness!) as
often - wait, wait - as often as twice or thrice a month.

As the memento of those heady ancient days the first two of many
thousands of subsequent Monitor's entries are quoted below.
Please, Dear Readers, do not laugh. You need to bear in mind that
my Monitor's past is not just a sluggish, foreign country. It is
more (or less) - depending on your training, orientation and
leanings - than a slow and strange place. Above all, it is an
unbelievably naive, hesitant, or even a very feeble-minded realm.
For instance:

	*	"21 April 1994
The Coombs Computing Unit of the Research Schools of Social
Sciences & Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National
University, Canberra maintains an on-line WAIS database of
abstracts of theses and dissertations written at the ANU.
Alumni of the ANU worldwide - the past, present and the future
ones - from all fields of study, including both Sciences and the
Arts, are warmly invited and encouraged to contribute to the
continuing growth of the ANU-Theses-Abstracts database which
right now can be interactively accessed and interrogated from
this line [1].
If you are an ANU graduate, you are warmly invited to send us
your thesis abstract via the electronic form shown here. If you
don't have a browser (eg. Mosaic v. 2) which supports forms, you
can still e-mail your thesis details (following the preferred ANU
format) to: 
abstracts at coombs.anu.edu.au" [Dear spammers - all of you,
everywhere, all the time - I implore you, do me a favour and copy
'abstracts at coombs.anu.edu.au' address to your database's innards.
I badly want to see your mailouts being inconvenienced and
disrupted when you try to spam the said address. - ed.] [Footnote
1 of Apr 2010] In 1994 the url was
gopher://cheops.anu.edu.au/7waissrc%3a/Coombs-db/ANU-Theses-Abstr
acts.src
Needless to say, for a quite a long while now there are no gopher
servers running at the anu.edu.au address. - ed.

	*	"5 June 1994 The Batish Institute of Indian Music
and 
Fine Arts [2] is happy to announce its new WWW server. The
Institute was formed in 1973 by the Batish family and is situated
in Santa Cruz, California. It holds classes in vocal and
instrumental music. 
It also publishes RagaNet (TM) , an electronic journal of Indian
music and arts. After many years of research, Pandit Shiv Dayal
Batish and his son Ashwin Batish have created encyclopedic works
designed to teach, from beginning to advanced, the theory and
practice of Indian music. Plans are presently underway to archive
photographs, digital sound files, general midi sound files, and
video clips of a variety of music related material."
[Footnote 2 of Apr 2010] In 1994 the address was
http://hypatia.ucsc.edu:70/1/RELATED/Batish ; Nowdays it is
http://www.batish.com/ - ed.

Happy Birthday Dear "Monitor"!

Happy Birthday to all of the Monitor's Readers!

Happy Birthday to Thee, for without Thee, Dear Friends and
Antagonists, there would not be any Monitor in existence at all.
It is your very attention - whether positive or negative - that
nurtures this electronic journal, and keeps its juices running
properly.

With 16 rounds of thanks, handclapping, hurrays, bows, occidental
genuflections and oriental kowtows,

T. Matthew Ciolek
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http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
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The e-journal [est. 21 Apr 1994] provides free abstracts and
reviews of new/updated online resources of significance to
research, teaching and communications dealing with the Asian
Studies.
The email edition of this Journal has now over 8,850 subscribers.
The AS WWW Monitor does not necessarily endorse contents, or
policies of the Internet resources it abstracts.

- regards -

Dr T. Matthew Ciolek      matthew.ciolek--at--anu.edu.au
Head, Internet Publications Bureau, RSPAS, ANU College of Asia
and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra,
Australia ph +61 (02) 6125 3124  fax: +61 (02) 62571893 also,
Asia Pacific Research Online at www.ciolek.com

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