Phew, working as an editor is no easy meal ticket I can tell ya! Seriously, the last few days have been as challenging and exhausting as they have been exhilarating and interesting. There simply is no comparison between a Uni environment and a News Room… they’re like diametrically opposed worlds, one relaxed almost to the …
Yearly Archives: 2006
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Susan Crawford blog :: FAQ on Net Neutrality"We may need to pay back the cablecos and telcos for their reasonable costs of building these broadband networks. But we should not let them control our future." Newspapers & Blogs"papers like the Washington Post are struggling with everything from charges of plagiarism in their blogs to being …
The Gnoos is Loose
Congratulations Michael & Ben on Gnoos. You must be very proud parents!
The Knowledge Tree Goes Bloggy
One of the things I’ve got a great deal of pleasure and a fair bit of experience from over the last few months has been helping the rather good Australian Flexible Learning Magazine, ‘The Knowledge Tree‘ move into the land of blogs. Yep, I certainly am no graphic designer but I hope we’ve done a …
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Publishing 2.0 » The Democratic Web Has Always Been An Illusion"The element of the net neutrality argument that I’ve always found specious is that the ISPs have no “right” to tier the internet and shut out the little guy… Of course they have the right — they own the “pipes”!"
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How many news outlet staff actually read their own RSS feeds?. Strange Attractor: Picking out patterns from the chaos that is the blogosphere.On the challenges of RSS to news agencies. Personally I don’t reckon it’s that big a deal (esp. if you’ve only got limited feeds) but it is an interesting question in terms of …
And I don’t mean a ‘BLOGG’
Had an interesting last couple of days at Deakin as a presenter; first up on a panel of editors (still makes me feel a little odd) for a new media & PR student conference and then as a part of a finale (of sorts) where my suggestions that most Australian Universities are very out of …
Better than good
You’re gonna love this:
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News of Wikipedia's Death Greatly Exaggerated. Many-to-Many:"A huge number of our current systems are hanging in the balance, because the more valuable a system, the greater the incentive for free-riding. Our largest and most spontaneous sources of conversation and collaboration are busily being retrofit with filters and logins and distributed ID systems, in an attempt …
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Publishing 2.0 » Consumers Are the New Medium"P&G, one of the largest advertisers, is pioneering a 2.0 approach to marketing that has little need for paid media advertising and leverages good old-fashioned face-to-face social networks" Publishing 2.0 » MySpace Hallucinations"So great is the hype surrounding MySpace that people are starting to hallucinate, seeing operating income …