Archive for the ‘blogs’ Category
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 ...
Posted in australia, blogs, conference, creative commons, student engagement, teaching and learning, web2.0 | 4 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in blogs, citizen journalism, participatory culture, politics, web2.0, wiki, youtube | 5 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in australia, blogs, conference, creative commons, participatory culture, teaching and learning, web2.0 | 1 Comment »
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
The DAC (Digital Arts and Culture) conference was in Perth last week and I was lucky enough to be able to attend perthDAC in all its glory. It was the first time DAC has been held in Perth, and only the second time it's been in Australia; and at ...
Posted in Perth, australia, blogs, conference, web2.0 | 3 Comments »
Friday, September 21st, 2007
What happens when the immovable confessional heartland PostSecret meets with the unstoppable force of the LOLCats meme? LOLSecretz! 'Tis sad and funny at the same time. My favourite three thus far: Head to LOLSecretz for a whole lot more ... [Via]
Posted in blogs, mashup, participatory culture, web2.0 | 1 Comment »
Monday, September 3rd, 2007
I'm attending four conferences or symposia across the next four weeks. In a perfect world, each will come with details blogging; however, if I don't get around to writing much for a few weeks, here's why ... [X] Learning Futures Symposium - 10 & 11 September, Canberra - This is a ...
Posted in Battlestar Galactica, UWA, australia, blogs, participatory culture, personal, student engagement, teaching and learning, tyranny of digital distance, web2.0 | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
The big news of the day is that The Australian Blogging Conference, a fabulous-looking free one-day event exploring everything about blogging in Australia (including education and Creative Commons!) now has a date: Friday, 28 September 2007 in sunny Brisbane! All of the details are here. I'd write more, ...
Posted in australia, blogs, citizen journalism, creative commons, participatory culture, student engagement, web2.0 | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
So, Kevin07 is here! Australian Labor leader Kevin Rudd has gotten all web2.0 and has a new portal website which integrates nicely with Labor and Rudd's re-vamped MySpace page, YouTube and Facebook. As I've discussed in the past month, Labor has already shown far more success in using MySpace and Facebook ...
Posted in advertising, australia, blogs, marketing, participatory culture, politics, web2.0 | 7 Comments »
Friday, July 13th, 2007
The Australian ran a couple of stories today about Australian politics finding another outlet in MySpace's 'Impact' website (the Australian version).
In Nicola Berkovic's 'Kevin has more 'friends' than John', she points out that Labor is doing much better in MySpace than the Liberal Party. As Berkovic notes:
Yesterday afternoon, the ...
Posted in australia, blogs, marketing, participatory culture, politics, web2.0, youtube | 24 Comments »
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
Chuck tagged me a few days ago with the Eight Things meme; although I'm generally fairly anti-meme, I've been enjoying a bit of back and forth with Chuck in his blog and on del.icio.us, so figured I could add one more procrastination on a writing day. Apparently, I have to start with ...
Posted in Ponderings, blogs, fan culture, personal, spider-man | 5 Comments »
