Archive for September, 2007
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
[Photo by Marxpix]
Like the Asian Tsunami (December 29, 2004),the The London Bombings (July 2005) and Hurricane Katrina's Aftermath (September 2005), information about the current demonstrations and atrocities happening in Burma are flowing through user-generated channels as much (indeed, often more so than) through the traditional mainstream media. There is ...
Posted in blogs, citizen journalism, participatory culture, politics, web2.0, wiki, youtube | 5 Comments »
Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Apple iPhone warning proves true [BBC NEWS | Technology]
"An Apple software update is disabling iPhones that have been unlocked by owners who wanted to choose which mobile network to use. Earlier this week Apple said a planned update would leave the device "permanently inoperable". ..."
(tags: apple iphone hack)
Q&A: Ridley Scott ...
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Saturday, September 29th, 2007
Jon Stewart and The Daily Show finally can't find a way to make George W. Bush sound any sillier than the world's most powerful man does all on his own. (And about education, to boot!)
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
The Australian Blogging Conference is tomorrow (Friday) in Brisbane. I'm flying out tonight and will be in the thick of it all tomorrow. I'll definitely be at the Blogging in Education session, as I'll be the facilitator for that session, and I'm looking forward to all the other blogging ...
Posted in australia, blogs, conference, creative commons, participatory culture, teaching and learning, web2.0 | 1 Comment »
Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Amazon Digital Music Store Goes Online [New York Times]
"Amazon.com introduced its widely anticipated digital music store on Tuesday with nearly 2.3 million songs, none of them protected against copying. The store, Amazon MP3, will allow shoppers to buy and download individual songs or entire albums..."
(tags: amazon mp3 drm p2p music ...
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Monday, September 24th, 2007
Single Shot: Making the euthanasia Peaceful Pill [YouTube]
YouThanasia? Australia euthanasia advocates post a how-to for creating a suicide 'peace pill'. [Courier Mail Story] [Via]
(tags: youtube google australia law ethics suicide euthanasia)
why I am not going on the academic job market [apophenia]
danah boyd outlines why she's not heading directly ...
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Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
A couple of months ago I wrote about Virgin Mobile's controversial use of CC-Licensed images from Flickr in one of their advertising campaigns. Things have now taken an odd twist, with on of the teenagers features in the photos suing not just Virgin but Creative Commons as well! As the Sydney ...
Posted in australia, copyright, creative commons, flickr, photography, web2.0 | 1 Comment »
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
The DAC (Digital Arts and Culture) conference was in Perth last week and I was lucky enough to be able to attend perthDAC in all its glory. It was the first time DAC has been held in Perth, and only the second time it's been in Australia; and at ...
Posted in Perth, australia, blogs, conference, web2.0 | 3 Comments »
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
Coonan seeks to censor the Web [Australian IT]
"Federal Police commissioner will have the power to block and ban websites believed to be crime or terrorism related under an internet censorship amendment bill introduced into Parliament today by Helen Coonan, Communications Minister."
(tags: australia internet censorship politics)
Fight cyber bullies, schools told [BBC ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
CALL FOR PAPERS - STATE OF THE ART: SCIENCE FICTION HISTORIES
Perth, Western Australia, 22nd-23rd March 2008
In his recent history of the genre, Roger Luckhurst argues that the marginalisation of Science Fiction (SF) from the literary establishment helped readers and writers to identify its conventions. Fandom blossomed from ...
Posted in Call for Papers, Perth, australia, conference, fan culture | 1 Comment »
