• Media Kit for Activists

    Here is a wonderful short documentary produced by Andrew Garton about a media training kit for NGOs (Non-Government Organisations) and other civil society community groups. (The video is self-explanatory). ItrainOnline Multimedia Training Kit The ItrainOnline MMTK is a growing collection of “workshop kits” for face-to-face training. The materials use a standard set of templates, and…

  • Vannavar Bush ‘As we may think’ (1945)

    In this famous article by Dr Vannavar Bush, published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1945, he outlines his vision for the 'Memex Machine', which is often seen as the intellectual precursor to hypertext and the world wide web. "The perfection of these specific instruments should be the first objective of our scientists as they emerge…

  • ABC Digital Radio

    Tony Walker, the manager of ABC Digital Radio, gave a talk on the future of radio and all things Web2.0 here at the University of Melbourne the other day. He also discussed how a major broadcaster responds to user-driven media. He kindly sent me a list of the links used in the presentation. Have fun…

  • Social Isolation Linked to the web.

    This study using Grannoveter's concept of 'strong and weak ties' is interesting, not so much because it is about the Internet, but because it blames the Internet. You could say exactly the opposite (and some researchers do); that the Internet actually increases social networks. Robert Putnam in his mammoth study of the decline of 'social…

  • BBC Creative Archive

    One of the most exciting developments in the past year or so has been the release of part/s of the BBC archive/s online under what is know as a Creative Archive licence. Bascally what this means, is that anyone can download a digitised film or television production and re-use it under certain conditions. What a…

  • New Australian Video Distribution System

    http://www.peekvid.com/ Here is an new video distribution and indexing system from Australia. It's not quite YouTube , and it's not quite Australian (ie. if you minus North America there isn't much going on), but hey, it's a start. It would be good to see one of these services take a stricter editorial line to add…