Archive for the ‘politics’ Category
Sunday, October 21st, 2007
As Asher Moses reports in The Age, Australia's censors have banned yet another videogame:
Australia's draconian classification regime for video games has taken yet another scalp, with local retailers banned from selling the upcoming shooter title Soldier of Fortune: Pay Back. The highly anticipated game, which was to be released on ...
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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 »
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
[Screenshot & heavy-handed black-out courtesy of News.com.au.]
While not the most insightful of political messages, the hacking of the Australian Liberal Party website has Australian Prime Minister John Howard showing a different side! I bet the reporter who wrote this piece was hurting themselves laughing, especially with the last line:
The Liberal ...
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
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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 »
Saturday, September 29th, 2007
Jon Stewart and The Daily Show finally can't find a way to make George W. Bush sound any sillier than the world's most powerful man does all on his own. (And about education, to boot!)
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
(I'm back in Perth, and ...) All over the world the WikiScanner has been uncovering interesting trails and tails of previously unnamed Wikipedia editors. PerthNow quickly jumped on the bandwagon and discovered the the Office of Australia's Prime Minister has been busy: The Prime Minister's staff has been editing ...
Posted in UWA, australia, elearning, politics, wiki | 4 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 »
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
As Chuck and a quite a few others have pointed out, Barely Political have released another viral video, this time featuring an MTV style showdown between the singing, dancing political spokesmodel* Obama Girl and her political nemesis, Giuliani Girl: I rather like Chuck's description of this clip as a "a singing and ...
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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 ...
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