• Google pays Murdoch $900 Million in a deal with MySpace

    Murdoch only bought MySpace a few months ago for US$580 Million, now he has made a deal worth US$900 Million with Google. And this is without even selling MySpace. You do the maths! This is what you call innovation corporate American style (well, Murdoch is an Australian or sorts); let everyone else do the innovation…

  • Reporters without borders: Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents

    Blogs get people excited. Or else they disturb and worry them. Some people distrust them. Others see them as the vanguard of a new information revolution. Because they allow and encourage ordinary people to speak up, they’re tremendous tools of freedom of expression. Bloggers are often the only real journalists in countries where the mainstream…

  • Building a Collaborative Knowledge Space for Humanist Scholars

    The University of Sydney has made some bold moves into Humanities Computing and Social Software in recent years. Their ‘Knowledge Space’ initiative, led in part by Ian Johnson, Director of the Archaeological Computing Laboratory, is one of the most interesting projects of its type in Australia. Here is an abstract of a talk that he…

  • The Australian Debt Monkey

    How to catch an Australian (debt) monkey. Put a box outside with a banana in it attached to a piece of string An Australian monkey will come along and climb into the box and grab the banana. The monkey won’t let go. The monkey could let go to gain its freedom, but it won’t because…

  • Digital Storytelling Seminar

    This seminar on digital storytelling in St Kilda here in Melbourne on the 18th of August looks interesting. ACMI runs workshops on this stuff and early last year I helped make a documentary about the history of waterskiing on the Yarra river (which was sort of fun). And of course, there is milkbar.com.au ACMI held…

  • How News Travels on the Internet

    This graphic has been around for a while now, but it is a useful visual representation and starting point for understanding how news may travel around the Internet. I would really like to see more research in this field; especially in terms of visualisation. There is some more analyses on Stephen VanDyke's Blog (link). Technorati…