• AL Gore Speaking in Melbourne; Thursday 16 November

    Al Gore is speaking in Melbourne this Thursday at the Arts Centre. But there are no tickets available plus the live online feed that was supposed to happen, isn't happening. Here is the link of the event (link). Here is Al Gore on South Park in case you feel bad about missing his talk.

  • What is the Citizendium Project?

    Is this a competitor to Wikipedia? (thanks to David Adams, Journalist for the link) The Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um), a "citizens' compendium of everything," will be an experimental new wiki project that combines public participation with gentle expert guidance.  It will begin life as a "progressive fork" of Wikipedia.  But we expect it to take on a…

  • 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…