Author: Craig
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The Australian Debt Monkey
How to catch an Australian (debt) monkey. Put a box outside with a banana in it attached to a piece of string An Australian monkey will come along and climb into the box and grab the banana. The monkey won’t let go. The monkey could let go to gain its freedom, but it won’t because…
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Digital Storytelling Seminar
This seminar on digital storytelling in St Kilda here in Melbourne on the 18th of August looks interesting. ACMI runs workshops on this stuff and early last year I helped make a documentary about the history of waterskiing on the Yarra river (which was sort of fun). And of course, there is milkbar.com.au ACMI held…
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How News Travels on the Internet
This graphic has been around for a while now, but it is a useful visual representation and starting point for understanding how news may travel around the Internet. I would really like to see more research in this field; especially in terms of visualisation. There is some more analyses on Stephen VanDyke's Blog (link). Technorati…
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OurMedia (Community Media) Conference: Sydney 9-13th April 2007
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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Chancellor of Germany makes first political podcast
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…