Author: Craig

  • New Australian Video Distribution System

    http://www.peekvid.com/ Here is an new video distribution and indexing system from Australia. It's not quite YouTube , and it's not quite Australian (ie. if you minus North America there isn't much going on), but hey, it's a start. It would be good to see one of these services take a stricter editorial line to add…

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  • The Internet and Political Communication

    The Internet and Political Communication

    1) What are the Internet's political features? 2 Why is the Internet important for politics? 3) How does it impact upon the public sphere? What sort of politics? There are a number of different ways that the Internet can be discussed in terms of politics; there are the issues that surround the governance and regulation…

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  • Asia Pacific Development Information Programme

    As the Internet becomes more important within social, economic, and political processes, issues of Internet governance will continue to come to the fore. The governance of the Internet concerns all 'three sectors'; government, the private sector, and Non-Government Organisations (NGOs). Together they confront a range of issues including technical standards, control, and access to the…

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  • Keith Winschuttle Accuses Simon Schama of Fabricating History

    In a highly controversial move, Keith Winshuttle, the well-know Australian historian; recently elected to the board of the ABC, has accused Simon Schama of fabricating history. Read more >> Technorati : ABC, australia, history, keith, schama, simon, windschuttle Del.icio.us : ABC, australia, history, keith, schama, simon, windschuttle

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  • The man with walrus eyes…

    The man with walrus eyes…

    (The return of cyber-punk?..sorry about this…a bit juvenile, I know, but I was bored). I am sitting in a crappy bar on the outskirts of New Sydney. I feel a little tired from spending the night with the I-CAD drafter I met the night before. Where did he learn to do these things? I have…

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  • An online history…

    It is a tad unnerving stumbling upon something that you wrote 10 years ago, perhaps in haste, which has become part of your permanent online record. Here is something I wrote 10 years ago in response to a position paper about the future of Law Journals. Was I wrong? (Perhaps the only thing that history…

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