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 …
Author Archives: James
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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 …
Joining ‘The Age’
As always, these things come in threes, so to complement turning 30 and moving into the new house, I’m also moving jobs… and professional fields too!!! And I couldn’t be more excited about it if I tried. I’m going to be working as the Online Community Editor at The Age which is not just a …
The 10,000th edublog!
So, sometime just before my very busy weekend the 10,000th edublogs was created! Interestingly enough it’s been called 1984 (nothing untoward there I hope) and I’d be delighted if you could join me in welcoming it to the edublogosphere! Hurroo! But at what time you ask… well, it was created at 7.20 AM on 19th …
Quite a weekend…
One that begun on Friday with Optus closing out net connection early, included at least 8 round trips to the new pad, ‘ended’ with Optus setting up new cable yesterday evening (two teams, people up ladders / overhead lines / on roofs!) and now there’s only 500 odd emails to go :) So please forgive …