Archive for November, 2007

links for 2007-11-29

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Reading music in the digital realm [The Australian] "From MySpace to YouTube, Flickr and Last.FM, an online participatory culture is transforming value systems and creating new pathways for autonomous innovation. In this so-called Web 2.0 phenomenon, social networks continue to ..." (tags: web2.0 music australia participatoryculture digitalculture) YouTube stops account of anti-torture activist ...

Cultural Capital a winner for Creative Commons!

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

As I'm sure you're aware, the Creative Commons organisation is in the midst of their annual fundraising efforts.  CC are also concurrently holding their second annual CC Swag Photo Contest on Flickr. I've entered a couple of photos thus far (and hope to get time to try a few more), ...

links for 2007-11-26

Monday, November 26th, 2007

James L Brooks' Fight Club [YouTube] "What would happen if the Oscar winning writer-director of feel good dramas like As Good As It Gets, Terms of Endearment and Spanglish had directed Fight Club instead of David Fincher?" Nifty little trailer mashup! :) (tags: mashup fairuse fightclub youtube)

links for 2007-11-20

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

SURVEY: Daily Show/Colbert Viewers Most Knowledgable, Fox News Viewers Rank Lowest [Think Progress] "A new [US] study by the Pew Research Study shows that viewers of the Daily Show and the Colbert Report have the highest knowledge of national and international affairs, while Fox News viewers rank nearly dead last" (tags: dailyshow ...

The WGA Strike: Making Writers Visible (starring Ron Moore with a special guest appearance by Daily Show writers)

Monday, November 19th, 2007

The WGA Writer's Strike is now in its third week, so I thought I should finally get around to blogging a few thoughts.  First off, I have to say, it's fantastic to see the issue of online content finally being taken seriously - as more and more material hits the web, I completely agree ...

links for 2007-11-19

Monday, November 19th, 2007

When grown-ups turn cyberbullies [Beyond Binary - A blog by Ina Fried - CNET News.com] The sad and tragic, as well as legally and ethically loaded, story of a 13-year-old who committed suicide after a MySpace prank friendship that was faked by adults, not kids. [Via] (tags: cyberbullying myspace socialsoftware socialnetworking ...

Doctor Who: ‘Time Crash’

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

In a seven-minute special filmed for the Children in Need Appeal in the UK, the current Doctor, David Tennant meets his earlier, fifth, incarnation Peter Davison.  The episode is largely fan service, but it's still a good little clip.  Check it out here: Oh, and for those fans who noticed ...

From YouTube to UniTube?

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

It would appear that the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has the dubious honours of being the first Australian university to have their own YouTube channel.  In the past couple of months, there have been a number of reports of US universities setting up on YouTube.  For example, this article ...

links for 2007-11-14

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

Minjeong Kim , The Creative Commons and Copyright Protection in the Digital Era: Uses of Creative Commons Licenses [Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), 2007] "...what was uncovered in this study does not clearly support either of the two visions of copyright, suggesting that the Creative Commons may not entirely solve the ...

Special Journal Issue on "Social Network Sites"

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

The latest edition of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication is live, and contains an outstanding special section on "social network sites" edited by danah boyd and Nicole Ellison.  I've not had a chance to read all the articles, yet, but I can say with certainty that danah boyd and Nicole ...