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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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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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uses of blogs hits the stands
Uses of Blogs, an anthology of scholarly essays (include one by me on higher ed classroom blogging) edited by Axel Bruns and Joanne Jacobs, is now officially available. Blurb: As the first edited collection of scholarly articles on blogging by experts and practitioners in a wide range of fields, Uses of Blogs offers a broad…
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Henry Jenkins now has a blog
Henry Jenkins, leading scholar in fandom, participatory culture, media convergence and vernacular media theory and Director of the Comparative Media Center at MIT has just started a blog, mainly, he says, to promote his new book Convergence Culture. I secretly hope it spirals out of control way beyond that, and with the number of people…
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no cinematic equivalent to autobiography?
In this videoblog remix, I think Trine begs to differ. Lovely stuff. I’ve been thinking as well that perhaps ‘the everyday’ is the currency of videoblogging in a way that is more muted for (personal) text-based blogging. Not that everydayness is more or less present, but that it is more important in creating whatever affective…
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nonverbal
So I guess this is my first videoblog post, but it’s also my first entirely non-verbal (i.e. not just oral rather than written) one. Oh, guess I just stuffed that up. Update: If I really knew what I was doing, this is how I would do it.
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T-Shirt Stoushing
Have I invented a meme? Will fame and fortune finally be mine? We all know that’s less than likely, but my slightly childish (and little-understood) substitution of a t-shirt design in the place of rational debate about identities and television prompted Mark to appropriate the idea as a new weapon in “blog stoushing”, and it…
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personal media: the view from the Beeb
J.D. Lasica has posted the video of his interview with BBC technology reporter Jo Twist about the personal media revolution. Here are my notes on the interview, trying to pull out the way Twist characterises the relations between technology, creativity, and cultural participation (I am such a broken record, thanks to this damn PhD, oh…
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Going Somewhere…?
Az is, that’s for sure, and it’s lookin’ great so far. Maybe I should up stumps too. The “new blog” concept is giving me ideas…in all kinds of ways.
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Happy [belated] birthday, blog
Oh no, getting slack already, and my blog is only just 2 years old. Sorry, C/M. Happy birthday.