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The Street as Platform (and the World as ‘Human Network’)
When as now I’m struggling with the agony of trying to write for publication, which means attempting to communicate carefully and clearly, and not unattractively (as opposed to ranting inadvisedly), encountering one of Dan Hill’s longer blog entries is without exception guaranteed to make me ever so slightly envious. The way the street feels may […]
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valentine’s day, postsecret style
I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of the PostSecret thing, now ported to YouTube for Valentine’s day as a video montage complete with hipster ‘home-made’ animation: [the video is an advertisement for the books, btw, which is entirely appropriate for this made-up ‘holiday’] Happy Hallmark Card Day. Update: I didn’t realise how many Postsecret […]
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Why I’m deleting my Facebook account
Update: 31 May 2010 This is by far the most visited post on my now-sleepy blog. It is also more than two years old. A lot of people are finding this post by searching Google for other people who are thinking about leaving Facebook. This is understandable given the recent surge of discontent among the […]
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Job vacancy in Digital Storytelling at QUT
There’s a job going in the Creative Industries Faculty for someone to help with the co-ordination and further development of our applied research strengths in the area of digital storytelling and other co-creative media. If you know of anyone who might be good for this position, please forward this on to them, and please note […]
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can haz viral video?
The other day I had the pleasure of participating in this week’s episode of Spark, a CBC Radio One show on tech culture news and ideas. It was a lot of fun being part of such a smart show – yay, public service broadcasting, long may it reign. The full show and related info, links […]
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Oprah, YouTube, and the YouTubers
[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 […]
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on distributed presence (and blogrolls)
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 […]
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Two New Projects in Civic Media and Citizen Journalism
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 […]
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Australian Blogging Conference this Friday
On Friday I’m going to be at the Australian Blogging Conference, which is being held here at the Creative Industries Precinct, QUT Kelvin Grove. A bit of the blurb: The growth of the Australian blogging community has mirrored the expansion of the blogosphere elsewhere in the developed world. However, there have been only a few […]
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LOL OMG (The YouTube Song)
The community of quasi-celebrity YouTube vloggers comes to life in this rip-off of the Beatles: Cute.