Category: media
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‘community media’ at its best
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NYC conference explores tech impact on political communication
NYC conference explores tech impact on political communication — Newsday.com (The Conference is callled the Personal Democracy Forum, and details can be found at: http://www.personaldemocracy.com/). Also, see my proposal for the history of non-parliamentary political communication). By BETH FOUHY AP Political Writer May 15, 2006, 5:45 PM EDT NEW YORK — Technological innovation, from blogs to podcasting…
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The Death of a Meta Tag
I just found this article from that wonderful site, search engine watch, about the death of Meta tags, or at least, the death of the 'key word' Mata tag. (I don't know of anyone who actually used it). The things about Meta tags, is that they give a site rigorous time, author, and context specificity, so…
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Interview with Lev Manovich by Daniel Palmer
I just found the Interview that Daniel Palmer did with the renown Professor of New Media, Lev Manovich in 2001 for the magazine Real Time. It is interesting; he explicates the term ‘new media’ well. Q. Why the language of ‘new media’ – which would seem to be an historically variable term – and not,…
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Resurrecting the Dead
It is strange where historical significant video footage ends up. Here is the only remaining footage of a Tasmanian Tiger taken at the Hobart Zoo in 1936 (that somehow ended up on Youtube.com). Now, just imagine in the BBC or the ABC digitised and provided access to their vast archives. This footage is ‘public domain’;…
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Miners Trapped in Tasmania
Last night (like every one else) I was watching the news about the trapped minders in Tasmania who had just climbed out of the hole in the ground and everyone was happy. I grew up in Tasmania, in fact I am 5th generation Tasmanian, but for many of us, being Tasmanian means something very different to…