Obama’s speech in Cairo

June 4, 2009 at 11:03 am · Filed under pod casts, political communication, politics, web2.0

Online political communication has travelled well since the days when a web site had a manifesto on it and pictures of cops bashing your mates at the last anti-globalisation demo!

• Watch Obama’s speeck on Whitehouse.gov (link)
• Discuss it on Facebook (link)
• Check Obama’s twitter feed (link)
• Discuss on Myspace (link)

I asked him about what hotel he is staying in in Cairo and what the weather is like; but he hasn’t got back to me yet.

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Media Talk: Twitter @G20

April 3, 2009 at 4:14 pm · Filed under media, pod casts, political communication, web2.0

Here is a podcast (audio); a reflective analysis of the use of new media such as twitter at the G20 protests by a panel of media experts.

Matt Wells and the panel discuss Twitter and the new forms of digital journalism at G20 (link)

Here is the app. for the iphone called Audioboo that is discussed on the podcast (link).

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Communication Power in the Network Society

March 31, 2009 at 12:11 pm · Filed under internet, media, pod casts

Manual Castells, who has a new book out in July called ‘Communication Power’ gave a lecture at the OII (Oxford Internet Institute), in October last year. Those kind folks at OII have provided a web-cast of it online.  There are also a number of other noterieties with web-cast-lectures. Most notable Ted Nelson, Jimmy Wales, Steven Colemen. Check it oot…(link)

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From the official White House channel

March 28, 2009 at 11:30 pm · Filed under digital humanities, humanities computing, pod casts, political communication, politics, social media, video, web2.0

The White House is active in the use of social media through setting up official channels on a number of popular social media sites. This is Vimeo, that has 1.3 million users, and of course there is YouTube, which also has an official White House channel (link).


3/28/09: Your Weekly Address from White House on Vimeo.

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How stupid can university rankings get?

May 25, 2008 at 7:17 pm · Filed under pedagogy, pod casts

This is an indication on just how relative, simplistic, and self-serving the so-called university ‘global’ rating system has become. A university in Melbourne , unable, it seems, to compete on the rather insane ranking system created by newspapers like the London Times, has decided to create its own ranking system. And who comes on top of this ranking system do you think? The city of Melbourne and a university that doesn’t even have a humanities school. Subjective or what? Apples and Pears or what? (link)

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Digital Humanities: Expert Seminars

March 9, 2007 at 12:06 am · Filed under digital humanities, humanities computing, pod casts, social media, web2.0

Here is a list of ‘podcast’ seminars undertaken by the Methods Network at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities here at King’s College. And don’t you just love the Internet; it means that you don’t have to attend all these seminars! And it is now becoming possible to learn about almost any subject online, not only through text (as has been the case up until very recently) but also through video and audio. And you can listen to them when ever you want; the best thing about the Internet is not the ease of distribution, but the reinvention of asynchronous time. Here is the URI to subscribe:

http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/podcast/methnet-podcast.xml

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