Category: media

  • 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…

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  • Local knowledges in global communication

    InterMedia: Project: Local knowledges in global communication Local knowledges in global communication: The impact of information and communication technology on the diversity of human knowledge. Principal objective and sub-goals. The principle objective of this project is to investigate the likely impact of information and communication technology on the diversity of human knowledge. This objective will…

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  • The control of the Internet

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1519539,00.html Bush administration to keep control of internet’s central computers Gary Younge in New York and agencies Saturday July 2, 2005 The Guardian The Bush administration has decided to retain control over the principal computers which control internet traffic in a move likely to prompt global opposition, it was claimed yesterday.The US had pledged to…

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  • Mobile Podcasting

    mobilepodcast.org OK, lots of interesting thing happening in the RSS world. Podcasting is a way of subscribing to certain news stories and entertainment media, and then plugging your mobile device into your computer, then downloading the files, then listening to them.

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  • Barons to Bloggers

    Two very interesting blog-power-brokers are in town at the moment (Melbourne); Lance Knobel from the UK and Jay Rosen of New York University. They spoke at last nights Alfred Deakin Lectures on Blogging. Their thesis was that blogging disrupts media power through giving unmediated power to the masses. Not such a bad thesis, but I…

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  • What is a good blog?

    ::looking for inspiration by tara willersdorf:: ? Blog me Baby A good blog affirms growth of knowledge rather than critiquing. A blog should be used to build or develop ideas. How to make it less like a journal and more like a blog. The blog entries can have personal touches, your distinct tone, but they…

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