Category Archives: pod casts

Obama’s speech in Cairo

By Craig | Published: June 4, 2009

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 [...]

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Media Talk: Twitter @G20

By Craig | Published: April 3, 2009

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 [...]

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Communication Power in the Network Society

By Craig | Published: March 31, 2009

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 [...]

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From the official White House channel

By Craig | Published: March 28, 2009

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 [...]

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How stupid can university rankings get?

By Craig | Published: May 25, 2008

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 [...]

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Digital Humanities: Expert Seminars

By Craig | Published: March 9, 2007

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, [...]

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    Hi, my name is Dr Craig Bellamy and I am a digital humanities analyst for the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative, a consortium based at the University of Melbourne, however, the views expressed in this blog are the responsibility of the author alone.

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