• Community Engagement and ICT

    For those interested in ICTs and Community Engagement, I have transcribed a list of useful sites from that wonderful publication “Towards Whole of Community Engagement: A Practical Toolkit” by Heather J Aslin and Valarie A Brown. Although none of these links particularly concern ICTs, the methodologies and approaches used in them could be applied to…

  • Youtube founders talk about selling out to Google

  • 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?

  • Politicians Beware, Warns Google

    Google makes me nervous. Billionaires making government 'accountable' makes me nervous. Who is making Google accountable? Imagine being able to check instantly whether or not statements made by politicians were correct. That is the sort of service Google boss Eric Schmidt believes the Internet will offer within five years. Politicians have yet to appreciate the…

  • 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…

  • Private Images and Public Debate

    (Published by myself in the Age , Opinion section today . The recent discovery of a number of videos of young Australian soldiers brandishing military weapons and skylarking on the popular video sharing system, Youtube, perhaps comes as no surprise given the shear volume of material now contained on services such as this. From the…