Archive for the ‘documentary’ Category
Sunday, July 29th, 2007
The US release date for the much anticipated Blade Runner: The Final Cut DVD has been set at 18 December 2007 (I hope the same date will be true for Australia, but I can't find anything to confirm that yet). There are sets from 2 to 5 discs in ...
Posted in Battlestar Galactica, Blade Runner, documentary, film, marketing, teaching and learning | 2 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, March 20th, 2007
In conjunction with their purchase of a Second Life Island, the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) dedicated a full Four Corners programme to exploring the world of Second Life. It was actually quite a fair representation of SL (at least, as I understand it, only having spent a few hours ...
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Sunday, March 11th, 2007
Here's the blurb from Douglas Gayeton's impressively edited, Second Life machinima short:
In January 2007, a man named Molotov Alva, dissapeared from his Californian home. Recently, a series of video dispatches by a Traveler of the same name have appeared within a popular online world called Second Life. Filmmaker Douglas Gayeton ...
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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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