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Archive for May, 2005

Metraform: New Works

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Metraform is a Melbourne based ‘virtual reality’ crew that have recently discovered the past. Check it out!


The ‘e’ version of the Encyclopedia of Melbourne (Beta) version is now online

Encyclopedia of Melbourne

This is really worth checking out. The Encyclopedia of Melbourne’s online version. A must for any online historian!


US Political Advertising

The Living Room Candidate

One of my favourite online archive sites is ‘Living Room Candidate” that streams many of the US political advertisements since 1952.


Mobile Podcasting

mobilepodcast.org

OK, lots of interesting thing happening in the RSS world. Podcasting is a way of subscribing to certain news stories and entertainment media, and then plugging your mobile device into your computer, then downloading the files, then listening to them.


More Lies from the Top

Iraq: how we were duped - Iraq - Features - In Depth - theage.com.au

The Iraq war was all about Lies. I wonder could we ever have a leader who could tell the truth; I wonder if our public is ready for the truth or would recognise it when they heard it? I wonder would they understand what leaders do and why they feel obliged to lie to them?


New media, New Politics?

I have to give a lecture on Monday in my class “Politics, Media, Communication on the politics of new media and how this impacts upon and alters the broader political-media landscape. It should be good, I look forward to it, but lectures are so much work to prepare. I gave one on the same subject last year but it lacked structure. Where would the world be without stucture? I should ask a blogger.


Barons to Bloggers

Two very interesting blog-power-brokers are in town at the moment (Melbourne); Lance Knobel from the UK and Jay Rosen of New York University. They spoke at last nights Alfred Deakin Lectures on Blogging. Their thesis was that blogging disrupts media power through giving unmediated power to the masses. Not such a bad thesis, but I wonder what the dangers are? I will think about it and get back to you.