• Digital Storytelling

    (from the Kelvin Grove Urban Village project ). Digital Stories are short, personally narrated multimedia tales. In a workshop run by specialist trainers from the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT, people from a wide range of age groups and experience levels worked together to produce digital stories related to the history of the Kelvin Grove…

  • Web 2.0: a pattern library

     What Web 2.0 is (from webmonkey ). There is a powerful idea floating around that the internet is moving into a more advanced stage of maturity, a new paradigm called Web 2.0. There's also a lot of hype flying around the idea, as well as a backlash from internet folks who see Web 2.0 as…

  • The Internet is our future: BBC Chief

    (from The Age newspaper ). BBC director-general Mark Thompson wants to take advantage of the latest technology to turn one of the world's foremost broadcasters into a truly global media brand. He insists that the Internet is the future for the 84-year-old British Broadcasting Corporation but warns that it has to be globally relevant to…

  • The Social Networking Goldrush

    I discovered a very interesting opensourse 'social software' service called elgg.net today that on the surface, appears to be much better than that ugly old beast 'myspace' (elgg.net has a focus upon learning). This article by one the the writers on the elgg.net system, Ben Ward, tells it all. Whose Space?   In April 2005,…

  • iCommons Summit Rio de Janeiro, 23-25 June, 2006

    “Towards a global digital commons” (From iCommons.org ). The past few years has seen the burgeoning of a number of initiatives aimed at opening the fields of creativity, science and knowledge in communities around the world. Practitioners from these movements currently identify themselves as falling within a particular community – ‘free and open source software’,…

  • When you are hot, you’re hot!

    Youtube is creating it’s own ‘starsystem’ based on hits, word-of-mouth, and cross-media promotion. Check out this dance video. It’s sort of funny. More in the Age newspaper >>