Monthly Archives: July 2006

OurMedia (Community Media) Conference: Sydney 9-13th April 2007

By Craig | Published: July 28, 2006

The conference series ‘OurMedia’ is coming to Sydney in April of next year. The last conference was in Bangalore in India; which unfortunately I missed because I couldn’t get a plane on that date. It is a strange leap from Bangalore to Sydney. Sydney is just so Third World when it comes to ICT compared [...]

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Why did Rupert Murdoch buy My Space?

By Craig | Published: July 25, 2006

One can have free web hosting but then special features like backup or data saving or even domain names of your choice are seldom available. _____________________________________________ Here is the interview that Wired Magazine did with Rupert Murdoch about why he bought MySpace for $580 million. Thanks to Rory of BKK Architects for the link. Perched [...]

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Chancellor of Germany makes first political podcast

By Craig | Published: July 23, 2006

In a world-first for a mainstream political leader, the Chancellor of Germany has made a political podcast. In the history of innovation in political communication, this is equivalent to Hoover and his political innovations with radio and his famous ‘fireside chats’ . Technorati : germany, podcast, politics, web2, web2.0 Del.icio.us : germany, podcast, politics Ice [...]

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A Stoaway’s Guide to the Pacific

By Craig | Published: July 23, 2006

The new batch of interactives or ‘online documentaries’ (or what ever you call them) from the ABC are really wonderful. Check out the Stoaway’s Guide to the Pacific. It’s a wonderful story, rendered well in flash, with some truly bizzare side journeys. (Produced by the Melbourne-based crew, Arcimedia Technorati : abc, australia, documentary, pacific, video [...]

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Lost in translation

By Craig | Published: July 21, 2006

The problem with the ‘information revolution’ is that there is too much information. But this has always been the case; there has always been too much information and individuals, institutions, and governments have always had to balance populism (generalising the world) and social complexity. One of the things I liked about the left-wing populist Paul [...]

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Youtube: 100 Million Crap Videos can’t be wrong!

By Craig | Published: July 18, 2006

“The big news of the morning is that YouTube has announced it’s hit 100 million videos served per day. Founded in early 2005, the company has raised at least $11.5 million in venture funding from Sequoia Capital. It’s one of many startups offering video sharing services, but for some reason now has an incredibly dominant [...]

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The (Australian) National Forum

By Craig | Published: July 18, 2006

The National Forum is an initiative that engages with many of the nations most important issues and political processes online. They have a whole bunch of sites; check them out. The National Forum, publisher of this site, was incorporated as a not-for-profit company to be a vehicle to promote democratic uses of the Internet in [...]

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