Monthly Archives: April 2006

BBC – Press Office – BBC’s Director of New Media & Technology defines vision for the future

By Craig | Published: April 30, 2006

BBC – Press Office – BBC's Director of New Media & Technology defines vision for the future A great article from the BBC about searching for stuff on the Internet (part of the rhetoric of Web2.0) 'Find' relates to the next generation of navigation. "Metadata is the information that we hold about our programmes; if [...]

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EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse

By Craig | Published: April 30, 2006

EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse One of the best activist sites to come out of Melbourne is the Energy Bulletin. It runs on its own purpose-built content management system (I think) and get a mega-amount of page reads. It aggregates content in relation to the concept of peak oil; or the time when global oil [...]

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Crushing the Web 2.0 Myths

By Craig | Published: April 29, 2006

net critique » Interview with Sole 24 Ore: Crushing the Web 2.0 Myths Geert Lovink is a very well-known Internet critic; especially here in Australia. Here is Lovink at his best, taking on the myths of Web2.0 (interveiw on his own blog). GL: Indeed, we have left the post-dotcom era, a relatively quiet period that gave [...]

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Ethics and Internet Research

By Craig | Published: April 28, 2006

The Association of Internet Researchers has produced an excellent guide to the ethical considerations of online research (2002) (thanks to Sean Cubitt for this link). It's called Ethical decision-making and Internet research and provides some good pointers for those considering and undertaking online research.

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EFF: Blogger’s Rights!

By Craig | Published: April 28, 2006

OK, the EFF (the Electronic Frontiers Foundation) have done some interesting work for many, many years. But they are a little too Libertarian for this blogger. And they are a little too, dare I say, American! It all about rights; the Bill of Rights, rights this; rights that. What about a Bill of Responsibilities? What about the responisibilies [...]

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Online Journalism

By Craig | Published: April 28, 2006

Another great webcast from the Oxford Internet Instutute: this time, from Bill Thomson.   Description: Nobody who uses the Internet or watches news programmes on TV can be unaware of the phenomenon of 'citizen journalism', found everywhere from personal blogs to sites like OhmyNews and Dan Gillmor's Bayosphere to the BBC, CNN, Sky and every other news [...]

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What is Democracy Player?

By Craig | Published: April 28, 2006

Democracy player is a free and opensourse platform to play online videos etc. Has anyone been using it? I would love to hear your feedback.   Features: Democracy Player is a new kind of browser for watching videos– grab webpages with video and video RSS feeds (including podcasts, video blogs, and BitTorrent feeds), and watch [...]

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