Monthly Archives: January 2005

Activism or Insight?

Someone once said that the only thing we learn from the past is that we don’t learn anything from the past. The wisdom inherent in this statement is that history (and historians) don’t have any particular power and the people that are in the driving seat are often people that are inimical to the past. [...]

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Hugh Martin on Blogs and Vlogs

Hugh Martin, former editor of theage.com.au and Age Journalist has written an interesting article in today’s Age about how ‘citizen reporters’ get the news out first. His thesis is based on the reporting of the Tsnami in the Indian Ocean. His article reminds me of the archive of ‘citizen reporting’ that was constructed at the [...]

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