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Obligatory Google Buzz post
Feb 16th
Cross-posted to the Air-l list. In a discussion about Google Buzz, surveillance and privacy, Christian Fuchs said: Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently remarked about Internet privacy: “Ifyou have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldnot be doing it in the first place”, which points towards a lack ofunderstanding of the online More >
Public Space and Its Discontents
Jan 9th
In addition to a lot of predictable Banksy spottings, there are some interesting images in this Flickr group, including this one: Group description: This group is interested in how people use, abuse and subvert ‘public’ spaces. Now that we lead sedentary indoor lives, public spaces are often neglected or strictly controlled and regulated. We are More >
Flussgeist & ambient intimacy
Sep 26th
I’ve been playing around with various twitter mashups, tools and toys lately, and I just had to give this one a quick mention. Unusually for me, I am about to talk about some art… Gregory Chatonsky’s work L’attente/The Waiting (warning, Flash-heavy), part of a series called “Flußgeist”, the “spirit of the flow”, mashes up twitter More >
What is Flickr Video For?
Apr 23rd
So Flickr finally ended the years of rumour-mongering and actually rolled out video. I was interested to see the way the official announcement carefully positioned the purposes of video on Flickr within the company’s (tasteful, cosmopolitan, playfully grown-up) brand identity, and its focus on self-created content: we thought long and hard about how video would flickr-video-for-2/" class="more-link">More >
Oprah, YouTube, and the YouTubers
Nov 19th
[cross-posted at Propagating Media] So, Oprah has her own YouTube channel. I was very interested to see how the user community would respond to Oprah’s debut on the site, given the stirrings of discontent I’d been detecting recently around a perceived ‘dumbing down’, sensationalising or mainstreaming of the content that makes it to the top More >
on distributed presence (and blogrolls)
Oct 9th
One of the things I find most interesting about the current proliferation and extensive uptake of various ‘social media’ technologies, from RSS readers, to del.icio.us, facebook and twitter as well as weblogs themselves, is the decentralising effect that these technologies are having the ‘online presence’ of individuals, at the same time as these technologies are More >
Two New Projects in Civic Media and Citizen Journalism
Oct 3rd
I’ve been meaning for a while to blog something about the YouDecide project and website, which is part of a major ARC Linkage project based here in the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT, in partnership with SBS, On Line Opinion, and the Brisbane Institute. In short, YouDecide2007 is a citizen journalism initiative, providing a forum More >
further to the myspace/facebook class debate
Jun 29th
Ah, the La Boite Theatre (which by the way has a kind of populist/grass-roots brand image but is situated in the hyper-modernist, rational and shiny Creative Industries Precinct here at QUT). Perhaps we should applaud them for doing their bit to keep MySpace bourgeios. But then again, first an iPod on the cover of their More >
Community responses to changes at YouTube
Jun 21st
In my last post, I discussed YouTube’s roll-out of language options and localization, and aired some concerns I have about its cultural implications. This morning I had a quick look to see how the YouTube community has responded to the move. I’m a bit surprised there isn’t more discussion, celebration, or protest than there is, More >
Localisation, YouTube and Flickr
Jun 20th
Via BigMouth Media – well, actually via late-night YouTube browsing, followed by the now-familiar exclamation “Oh, look, YouTube’s changed something (in the middle of the night) again!”: YouTube has released localised versions of its video sharing website in nine countries around the world. The countries that are getting the special treatment are Brazil, France, Ireland, flickr/" class="more-link">More >