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Digital Culture Links: November 5th 2009

Links for November 3rd 2009 through November 5th 2009:

• The ABC of social media use [ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)] - How bizzare: social media use guidelines in a major corporation which actually make sense! "ABC managing director Mark Scott has announced new social media guidelines, which the national broadcaster's journalists and staff must abide by. [...] In an email sent to ABC staff this morning, the new Use of Social Media policy gives four standards which staff and contractors must follow when using both work and personal social media interaction:
  1. Do not mix the professional and the personal in ways likely to bring the ABC into disrepute.
  2. Do not undermine your effectiveness at work.
  3. Do not imply ABC endorsement of your personal views.
  4. Do not disclose confidential information obtained through work."
• The temporary web [BuzzMachine] - Jeff Jarvis articulates some important concerns about the way Twitter and other social services are contributing to a more temporary, less archivable (or, at least, less searchable in the long term) web: "...search is turning social and our search results are becoming personalized, thus we don’t all share the same search results and it becomes tougher to manage them through SEO. Put these factors together – the social stream – and relationships matter more than pages (but then, they always have). "
• Internet piracy [Background Briefing - 1 November 2009] - Australia's Radio National programme Backgroud Briefing takes a look at copyright in the digital age, featuring the big arguments and comments from everyone from AFACT to Lessig and Girl Talk. Segment by Oscar McLaren.