Category: media

  • Wikepedia founder launches political site

    Wikipedia founder Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales this week announced the opening of a wiki devoted to hot-button political topics such as gay marriage and environmental protection (link).

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  • What is new about new media?

    1) What is media convergence and how is it facilitated by the Internet? 2) What opportunities does media convergence provide for both the a producer and audience of a newmedia work? (or why is new media new?) Google is an example of a technology company that until very recently, only existed within the realm of…

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  • Live Media

    Here is an 'interpretation' of 'WEB2.0' from the perspective of  'live media'. This caught my eye because the author takes a non-technological-determinist perspective (always a much more sophisticated position). There are alot of talanted people coming out of Britain in the Web2.0 world (link )  Live Media is different. It is about conversations and content…

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  • Media Kit for Activists

    Here is a wonderful short documentary produced by Andrew Garton about a media training kit for NGOs (Non-Government Organisations) and other civil society community groups. (The video is self-explanatory). ItrainOnline Multimedia Training Kit The ItrainOnline MMTK is a growing collection of “workshop kits” for face-to-face training. The materials use a standard set of templates, and…

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  • ABC Digital Radio

    Tony Walker, the manager of ABC Digital Radio, gave a talk on the future of radio and all things Web2.0 here at the University of Melbourne the other day. He also discussed how a major broadcaster responds to user-driven media. He kindly sent me a list of the links used in the presentation. Have fun…

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  • 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…

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