Archive for the ‘blogs’ Category

Links for May 12th 2008

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 ...

Links for April 8th 2008

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Interesting links for April 8th 2008: Why Academics Should Blog... [Confessions of an Aca/Fan] - Henry Jenkins makes a powerful argument as to why academics - and postgraduate students - should be blogging. Connections, networks, exposure and clarity are among the themes! :) "I love a sunburnt country" [Flickr Blog] - ...

Do Free Online Books Make Money?

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Does making a book freely available online hurt or enhance the sales of the hardcopy?  Advocates suggest that if you read a bit of the book online you're more likely to buy the hardcopy if you like it and finish reading it on paper.  You're also more likely to recommend ...

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 ...

e-Lection.au

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

No Australian can have missed the news that we'll be voting in a Federal Election on November 24. The advertising onslaught has begun and, unlike past campaigns, this one's taking online campaigning seriously, with the current Liberal government apparently spending upward of $5 million on their web-based advertising. ...

Free Burma!

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

Support a Free Burma. Visit www.free-burma.org.

Archiving and Commenting

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

As of last month, this blog is now being archived by the National Library of Australia and can thus be found in Pandora - Australia's Web Archive.  I'm pleased that this blog has become a little less ephemeral, but I also thought given that the archiving process makes not only ...

Reflections on the Australian Blogging Conference and Blogging in Education

Monday, October 1st, 2007

As readers of this blog will know, I spent Friday at the Australian Blogging Conference at QUT's Creative Industries Precinct in Brisbane. It was a fabulous, stimulating and intellectually rich conference and a great end to Tama's-month-o-conferencing. I was the facilitator for the 'Blogging and Education' session ...

Blogging Burma

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 ...

Australian Blogging Conference: Tomorrow!

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 ...