• Media Analysis of the Big Brother Turkey Slap

    Media Analysis of the Big Brother Turkey Slap

    The Big Brother ‘ Turkey Slap ‘ incident is an interesting case study of how news travels on the Internet. The traces of this incident, both big media and small, can be found all over the Internet. Micheal Bric, one of the guys at the centre of the media frenzy, was a student of mine…

  • What is web 2.0 the Video

    This video about Web 2.0 is sort of cheesy and full of simplistic analysis (and annoying Californians) but there are some good ideas if you can sift through the fluffy West-Coast crap. But hey, lots of crap; isn’t this yet another definition of Web 2.0? Stick with the video; it does get better towards the…

  • 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…