• What is Thinking Rock?

     I really like these projects…and this one is from Australia. It is a way of 'mapping' the things you do or want to do. Hypertext was first imagined by Ted Nelson way back in the 1960s as a way to organise his thoughts.  Thinking Rock is a free software application for collecting and processing your…

  • ActNow

    Australian political communication at its finest (and using features of Web2.0).(link)

  • 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…

  • Berners-Lee’s Fears for the Future of the Web

    Berners-Lee is saying what many of us have also feared for along time. That people have the capacity for both good and bad, so that old-fashioned and tedious Libertarian culture of the web just ain’t good enough to cope with the political sophistication of the world stage. The British scientist who developed the World Wide…

  • 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…

  • RSS Art?

    (Things have just started to become interesting in the RSS world. Check out this site. Who said that new media art was dead?) Every hour, 10×10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories. After…