Author: Craig

  • Net Dialogue: Clearing House on Internet Governance

    One of the most useful sites that you will find concerning the complex subject of Internet governance is a ‘clearing house’ site jointly produced by Harvard and Stanford’s Law Schools. They demarcate the various communities of interest and the contested attributes of Internet governance and even suggest why we need Internet governance in the first…

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  • What is new about new media?

    1) What is media convergence and how is it facilitated by the Internet? 2) What opportunities does media convergence provide for both the a producer and audience of a newmedia work? (or why is new media new?) Google is an example of a technology company that until very recently, only existed within the realm of…

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  • E-Books poised to leap

     I did some research on E-Books a few years ago for a highly innovative publishing house here in Melbourne called Common Ground Publishing. Not a hell of a lot has happened in the field since, but as with all things digital, e-books seems to be making a come back of late. (from the Age ).…

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  • Open Content Alliance

    The open content alliance is a mammoth project to make available online for free millions of public domain books. Google is not a member of this alliance but have their own digitisation project. What is the Open Content Alliance? The Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit,…

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  • Live Media

    Here is an 'interpretation' of 'WEB2.0' from the perspective of  'live media'. This caught my eye because the author takes a non-technological-determinist perspective (always a much more sophisticated position). There are alot of talanted people coming out of Britain in the Web2.0 world (link )  Live Media is different. It is about conversations and content…

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  • Media Kit for Activists

    Here is a wonderful short documentary produced by Andrew Garton about a media training kit for NGOs (Non-Government Organisations) and other civil society community groups. (The video is self-explanatory). ItrainOnline Multimedia Training Kit The ItrainOnline MMTK is a growing collection of “workshop kits” for face-to-face training. The materials use a standard set of templates, and…

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