• 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…

  • How to write an academic essay

    Here is an excellent guide by Professor David Gauntlett of the Institute for Communication Studies in the UK on how to write an academic essay (link). Thanks for making it publicly available!

  • hypertextual video

    Youtube doesn’t really do anything new. It it just the ‘delivery boy’ of online video. But how about this innovation? This is similar to what I was trying to do in my own work 5 years ago with milkbar.com.au. It is what you call ‘hypertextual video’ in that it allows the user to embed links…

  • BBC’s Editorial Blueprint for the future

    BBC Director-General Mark Thompson today launched an extensive cross-media, audience-focussed project entitled Creative Futures which will produce an editorial blueprint for BBC programmes, content and services during the next Charter period. Following publication of the Government’s Green Paper on the BBC’s future last week, Mr Thompson said: “This project is designed to turn the purposes…

  • 50th Anniversary of Television in Australia

    50th Anniversary of Television in Australia

    FIFTY years ago, the box in the corner flickered to life. From a curiosity, it became a living room fixture. Now, television is moving in new, uncertain directions. Rove McManus is at the top of the TV tree, with three gold Logies and just under a million viewers tuning in weekly to his show. However,…