Archive for the ‘citizen journalism’ Category
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Interesting links for May 12th 2008 through May 14th 2008:
Twitters scoops media in reporting China quake [The Age] - "The world had real-time news about China's massive earthquake as victims dashed out "twitter" text messages while it took place, in what is being touted as micro-blogging outshining mainstream news."
Sightseeing in ...
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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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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. ...
Posted in advertising, australia, blogs, citizen journalism, participatory culture, politics, 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 »
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 »
Monday, May 28th, 2007
Australia's QUT has been in the grip of a very public controversy recently which dovetails between issues of freedom of speech, academic ethics and the transparency of university processes. The controversy came to light and media attention on 11 April this year when two QUT academics, John Hookham and Gary ...
Posted in australia, citizen journalism, documentary, participatory culture, politics, web2.0, youtube | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
I woke this morning to the news that 33 people were dead at Virginia Tech university in the US due to a gunman's "shooting rampage" . Apart from the tragedy itself one line which struck me as odd in initial report I was reading from the BBC (and I ...
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Tuesday, April 10th, 2007
As everyone from the New York Times onward has noted, in the wake of the threats against Kathy Sierra Tim O'Reilly proposed a Blogging Code of Conduct and has now written the first (draft) version of this code. While I'm heartened that so much well-intentioned conversation has surged through ...
Posted in blogs, citizen journalism, kathysierra, participatory culture, stopcyberbullying, web2.0 | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
The races for party nomination and the Presidential election in the US always tend to bring out the most creative political media and mashups. The first great political video of the 2008 race is definitely Hillary 1984, which mashes up one of Apple's most famous advertisements from 1984, using ...
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Saturday, February 24th, 2007
If you're interested in Net Neutrality, then check out this evocative mini-documentary on why regulating the internet in the ways being debate in the US are a bad idea of democracy, a bad idea for the US, and a really bad idea for the rest of us!
Save the Internet | ...
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