• 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…

  • 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…