Sorry
Saying sorry to the Stolen Generations isn’t the solution, but it is the beginning of a solution. Like Jean, I choose to be optimistic that this apology is an important and substantial step in the right direction for all Australians.
Update: Kevin Rudd has said sorry on behalf of all Australians, which is long overdue and most welcome. You can read the apology or watch it here.
[Photo by Spud Murphy]
Still bubbling …
While it hasn’t really been a conscious decision, I seem to have taken a rather extended break from blogging without really intending to do so. After my last six posts were just annotated del.icio.us links I did think I should make sure the next post has a little more substance, but you’re getting this instead. Really, I just thought I should check in and say I’m alive and well, just very busy. In January this year I returned to the Communication Studies discipline here at UWA and am finally getting my head around the new position, as well as all my new teaching commitments. It has also been one of the hottest summers I can remember which really doesn’t make for any more time behind the computer screen that is absolutely necessary!
I do intend to get back into blogging properly soon. Toward the end of last year I think I had a bit of blog lethargy plus a considerable information overload. I’ve now scaled back my Twitter network to 1/4 it’s original size. I also read Jean’s post on leaving Facebook and seriously considered it (yes, as Axel lamented last year, my closed network is getting more attention that my open ones), but there are just too many people who communicate through Facebook that I would find it too hard right now to let those connections fizzle away. That said, as I will have been blogging for five years this May, perhaps a little break was due, anyway. However, I guess if the WGA are getting back to writing, I should try to as well!
More soon … ish.
links for 2008-01-18
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“Facebook has been asked to remove the Scrabulous game from its website by the makers of Scrabble.”
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An interesting take on Cloverfield (JJ Abrams’ hand-held Godzilla in New York film) being the closest of a September 11 film to date (both due to the level of destruction, and the way it’s shot).
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Mashup of Hillary Clinton’s run in the democratic primaries juxtaposed against Reese Witherspoon’s remarkably similar character from the film Election. A lovely mashup!
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They’ve found a way to make yeast live ten times its normal lifespan, and now the question is whether a similar alteration might work on humans! (Seriously, though, who’s going to retire at 65 when they need 725 years of superannuation?)
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“… the Doctor is more likely to overthrow the government on alien planets, or in the distant future. When he visits present-day Earth or our history, he’s an arch-conservative.” (Compares Doctor’s politics withe those of the UK party in power.)
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A lovely booklet which details a lot of case studies in which Creative Commons licenses are meaningfully used in Asian countries and Australia. (The PDF is about 10Mb, but well worth a read.)
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“After a productive and valuable conversation with my publisher, Random House, they’ve agreed to permit The Future of Ideas to be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license. You can download the book for free.”
links for 2008-01-11
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“Forget Lonelygirl15, YouTube’s 2006 online video phenom. Professors are the latest YouTube stars. … Web video opens a new form of public intellectualism to scholars looking to participate in an increasingly visual culture.”
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Mary Poppins as a horror film … a really good trailer! (An oldie but a goodie!)
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The intriguingly story of Arash Derambarsh, a 28 year old French man, who convinced the French press that he was the elected ‘President of Facebook’! After many serious big-media interviews, the hoax was eventually uncovered.
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“Resources for those educators wishing to learn more about blogging for themselves and/or their students.” (A long list of great resources.)
links for 2008-01-09
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How a single YouTube video got a response from Australia’s Foreign Minister and opened relatively fresh wounds on the topic of racism in Australia, with a protest about Japanese whaling policies thrown into the mix!
links for 2008-01-08
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How a well-known military blogger, Major Andrew Olmsted, got the final word after he was killed in Iraq but got a friend to post his pre-prepared goodbye via his blog.
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Can webisodes make money? A Western Australian perspective: “The first point is: People are already making money from creating webisodes.”
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