• Who Controls the Internet?

    The major player in terms of governing the global Internet is a rather innocent sounding company called ICANN or the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. ICANN has its headquarters in California and is a non-profit company that was created in 1998 to oversee a number of Internet-related tasks that were previously performed by…

  • WordPress Plugin Data Base

    OK, one of the better WordPress developer sites that I have found. Lots of Plugins here!

  • Fairfax and Convergence

    Fiarfax, the published of the Melbourne Age is getting into the online video business in a big way (perhaps) through the appointment of a non-newspaper-type to the role.   John Fairfax Holdings has given another strong indication that it intends to expand its foothold aggressively in the burgeoning broadband video business. The media company, which…

  • Using Technorati Tags

    Tagging is the inverse to ‘metadata’ as it is an idosyncratic and localised way to categorise information into what might later become knowledge. Tagging seems to support the libertarian ethos of the Internet, however as Amarta Sen says ‘you have a right to be libertarian, but I have a right not to be killed’. See…

  • The Audience

    From the New York Times  JOURNALISTS over the years have assumed they were writing their headlines and articles for two audiences — fickle readers and nitpicking editors. Today, there is a third important arbiter of their work: the software programs that scour the Web, analyzing and ranking online news articles on behalf of Internet search…

  • The History of Strategic Non-Parliamentary Political Commuication

    The History of Strategic Non-Parliamentary Political Commuication

    The History of Strategic Non-parliamentary Political Communication in Australia 1960-2004 The well-documented rise of image politics and media spin within the major political parties communication methods is weakening established democratic relations. With the growing importance of media within politics, there is also increasing attention to political communication by other political actors, such as lobby groups…