Archive for the ‘australia’ Category
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Interesting links for July 28th 2008 through July 30th 2008:
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog [Hulu] - Joss Whedon's 3 Dr Horrible webisodes - availble for one week only - are now back - for 4 months - on Hulu. Only, of course, if you live in the US. Or ...
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Saturday, July 26th, 2008
Interesting links for July 25th 2008 through July 26th 2008:
Last Lecture Professor Randy Pausch, 47, Dies [NYTimes Blog] - The sad loss of a truly inspirational educator. If you've not listened to Pausch's Last Lecture, go watch it now.
GetUp! for what? Issues Driven Democracy in a Transforming Public Sphere ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
I’ve been meaning to post about all the exciting things Creative Commons Australia have been up to since I returned from the fabulous Building an Australasian Commons national conference (and the linked Creating Value: Between Commerce and Commons international conference), but it’s taken a few ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Continuing their tradition of banning videogames, the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) have decided that Fallout 3 isn't going to get a classification in Australia (and thus can't be sold legally). However, the OFLC reasoning seems inconsistent even with their own past censorship efforts, and has reignited ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
With Perth's community broadcaster, Access 31, alive for a while longer, it's my great pleasure to announce that the eight best news projects from students in my Digital Media (Comm2203) unit this semester will be screening as a half an hour programme this Friday night (11 July, 2008) on channel ...
Posted in Perth, UWA, australia, student engagement, teaching and learning, tv | 1 Comment »
Friday, June 27th, 2008
Interesting links for June 21st 2008 through June 27th 2008:
Simpsons Map for Quake III Arena [YouTube] - A fantastically detailed mashup, bringing 3D textures from the Simpsons into Quake III. [Via Waxy]
Is YouTube truly the future? [SMH] - Henry Jenkins and John Hartley give their take on the "pre-history" of ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Interesting links for June 2nd 2008:
It Really Looks Like Ice on Mars [Universe Today] - The Phoenix Lander on Mars may have uncovered ice. As anyone with a passing interesting in Mars science fiction will know, actually finding water/ice on Mars is the single either makes or breaks the ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Interesting links for May 21st 2008:
The Long Tail Wags the Dog [Technorati Weblog] - "Nowhere have we seen a bigger impact of blogging and social media on the American political landscape than on the 2008 presidential election. Candidate appearances formerly confined to a small town are uploaded to YouTube and ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Interesting links for May 9th 2008 through May 12th 2008:
TimeTube - "Creates a timeline for any YouTube keyword search--very handy for visualising the activity around particular topics--and iterations/transformations of particular videos--over time." (Via Jean)
Victorian Liberal staffers sacked for blogging [gatewatching] - Two staffers in the Victorian Liberal Party were fired ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
To explore, expand and expound upon the emerging Australasian Commons, the Creative Commons Australia team have organised a free one-day symposium which investigates a range of activities, programme and philosophies driving open access and the cultural commons across Australia, New Zealand and South-East Asia. I'll be there, participating ...
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