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 [The Age] [...]
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), and I was delighted to [...]
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) addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tamaleaver.net%2F2007%2F11%2F26%2Flinks-for-2007-11-26%2F’; addthis_title = ‘links+for+2007-11-26′; addthis_pub = ‘tamaleaver’;
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 colbert humour politics [...]
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 that writers should be getting [...]
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 ethics legal youth suicide) [...]
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 all sorts of continuity references there is [...]
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 from News.com on UC Berkeley’s [...]
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 conflict between the two [...]
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 Ellison’s “Social Network Sites: Definition, [...]
