Archive for the ‘participatory culture’ 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 ...

Mayer and Bettle are back!

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

Anyone who has ever tried to explain the importance of Creative Commons licenses to a new audience has probably played them the wonderful CC Mayer and Bettle Animation which was created back in 2005 by Pete Foley and others gathered together by CC Australia. The video features two animated ...

Web 3.0: A Locked Down, “Secured” Web 2.0?

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

While a lot of different people have attempted to deploy the term Web 3.0 to mean pretty much anything they like, I've read more and more reports in the last couple of weeks that seem to be positioning Web 3.0 as the locking down of all of the socially shared ...

Links for April 1st 2008

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Interesting links for March 31st 2008 through April 1st 2008: Police take a tip from YouTube [Australian IT] - "Call it BlueTube. Citizen-supplied video evidence of crimes appears set to take off with police forces around Australia." Embracing the torrent of online video [BBC NEWS | Technology] - Very positive piece from ...

Links for March 30th 2008

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Interesting links for March 30th 2008: Getting Started [Photoshop Express] - Great set of simple explanations (in video) for making the most of Photoshop Express. Adobe Photoshop Express - Adobe's push into online applications continues, this time with a (very) scaled-down version of Photoshop as an online tool. Adobe are clearly getting ...

Beyond Broadcasting: ‘Watching Battlestar Galactica in Australia and the Tyranny of Digital Distance’

Monday, March 24th, 2008

I'm very pleased that the 'Beyond Broadcasting' issue of Media International Australia is out, not only because it features some excellent articles asking some great questions about the future of television in the era of digital communication, but also because it features an article of mine that I've been thinking ...

Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Web 2.0 remains one of those wonderful catch-all phrases which is employed in so many different ways to support a host of different ideas.  Rather than leave the term to gain even further layers of hype as it rolls down the digital hillside, a new special edition of First Monday ...

CC+

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

One of the big announcements at the celebrations of Creative Commons' fifth birthday was the release of the CC+ (CCPlus) licensing arrangement which combines existing CC licenses with ability to also explicitly point to additional licensing (for example, terms for commercial use on an NC CC license).  From the ...

Cultural Capital a winner for Creative Commons!

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

As I'm sure you're aware, the Creative Commons organisation is in the midst of their annual fundraising efforts.  CC are also concurrently holding their second annual CC Swag Photo Contest on Flickr. I've entered a couple of photos thus far (and hope to get time to try a few more), ...

From YouTube to UniTube?

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

It would appear that the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has the dubious honours of being the first Australian university to have their own YouTube channel.  In the past couple of months, there have been a number of reports of US universities setting up on YouTube.  For example, this article ...