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Australian Journalism at its best!

This is sort of funny. Steven Mayne can be a bit of a wanker; but still, to try and push him off stage when he is accepting an award is a little too much. Even I wouldn’t do that. I would wait until later and get him in the car park! I hope the other bloke doesn’t get into trouble because this is exactly the type of behaviour that Steven Mayne has built his career upon. We remember the Victorian Sate election of 1999 dear Steven; thanks for that. One rule for everyone I say.


Morning Coffee with Craig: Do you have time to think?


Morning Coffee with Craig: What is Activism 2.0?

Net Activism 1.0 = Libertarianism
Net Activism 2.0 = Governance

Political Communication and Information Scarcity

The Internet arrived on the global stage during a tumultuous juncture in world history. The Soviet Empire collapsed; ending a 50 year ideological battle between the centralised command economies of the Communist East, and the free-market economies of the Capitalist West. A world that was sharply divided between the Socialist ideologies of centralised planning-coupled with tight information controls-and the Capitalist ideologies of individual agency and individual expression was replaced by the later world of increasingly unfettered ‘flows’. Primarily driven by the United States, its allies, and the post World War II Bretton Woods Institutions such as GATT (General Agreement on Tariff and Trade); freedom of expression, freedom of trade, and freedom of the market prevailed in all major international interactions. The Internet entered the global arena during this period of great change and is defined by this change and defines this change (and it may have developed very differently if it was conceived during another period of history). It is perhaps not unusual then, that tentatively entering the post Cold War period, many early researchers first understood the Internet’s political potential firmly grounded in the Communist ‘information scarcity’ and censorial anxieties that derive from the ideological divisions of the ’short Twentieth Century’ (Hobsbawn; 1994).

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Morning Coffee with Craig: What is political bias?

The term ‘bias’ has been used a lot lately in Australia by the Conservative administration, but do they actually know what it means? Today I ponder the idea of ‘bias’ from the most objective position available to me; my own perspective. In fact I am the most un-bias person in the whole world and if you don’t agree with me then you must be ‘bias’.


4) Morning Coffee with Craig: What is Globalisation?

Today I give a very brief overview of that monumental term ‘globalisation’. As you probably know, there are protests against a certain type of globalisation (neo-liberalism) being planned in Melbourne for the meeting of the G20 group.

Also, here is a site that I made way back in August, 2000 about globalisation. There are some good articles on it, although the newspaper artciles are no longer available (broken links and excuse the nasty advertising that comes with these free hosts).


3) Morning Coffee with Craig: What is a ‘publicly articulated career’ blogger?

Today I talk about the notion of the ‘publicly articulated career’ blogger (or the ‘resume blogger’).

Also, check these links out:
http://homecookedtheory.com/
http://snurb.info/
http://jilltxt.net/

Also check out Danah Boyd’s blog: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/

And also her somewhat ironic paper: Friendster and Publicly Articulated Social Networking.


2) Morning Coffee with Craig: What is Web 2.0?

Web2.0 (key components)

  • Comes out of the Blog Community or CMS
  • RSS Feeds
  • Folksonomies (visualisation of data)
  • User-generated media (social software)
  • Filtering (Too much media)
  • Ajax (programming technique)
  • Real Time Web (visualisation of data).

(also see the ‘all things Web 2.0′ list on this site (link)

Blogs:

http://boingboing.net/

http://larvatusprodeo.net/

Search:

http://www.technorati.com/

http://del.icio.us/

http://www.google.com

Video and TV

http://www.milkbar.com.au

http://www.ourmedia.org/

http://www.current.tv/

http://www.youtube.com

http://creativearchive.bbc.co.uk/

http://viddler.com/

http://www.jumpcut.com/

http://one.revver.com/

Social Software

http://www.youtube.com

http://www.dailymotion.com/

http://www.myspace.com

http://www.flickr.com

http://www.last.fm/

Publishing:

http://digg.com/

Pod casting

http://www.apple.com/itunes/

Ajax:

http://www.netvibes.com/

http://www.jotform.com/

http://www.ajaxwrite.com

RSS:

http://www.xfruits.com/

Democracy

http://www.moveon.org

Mobiles:

http://www.mobilewhack.com/reviews/nokia_n93_cell_phone.html

http://www.textamerica.com


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1) Morning Coffee With Craig: When Your Hot Your Hot!

Today I talk about global warming and the need for our political systems to adapt to the politics of global warming.


The Brain Drain (or how Youtube drains your brain)

In this video-diary entry I contemplate going to England. I wonder does that make me part of the brain drain or a political refugee?


What books am I reading?

This is one of my first attempts of adding my own video to this blog (thanks to Youtube.com). And what better way to make a seque into a new medium than by having a book under my arm. See and hear what books I am reading at the moment; I suppose that it is better (and easier) than writing about them!