Tag: Advocate
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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…
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Where the bloody hell have you been?
Just found a fantastic service called Youtube.com . It is similar to Flickr but for videos. It saves alot of problems with having to stream video from you own server. Where the bloody hell have you been?
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Gallery of network images
Mark Newman of the University of Michigan has produced some excellent maps of social networks (I especially liked the one on high school friendships). Valdis Krebs or Orgnet is another 'network analyst' that has produced some highly original maps.
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How celebrity bloggers make friends and influence people
How celebrity bloggers make friends and influence people – Technology Yet another innocent enough article about Cory Doctorow in today's Age newspaper. But the question remains, does Doctorow have sponsored posts in his blog (see below)? Are sponsored posts similar to 'cash for comment' on radio shows (ie. John Laws)?
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Crushing the Web 2.0 Myths
net critique » Interview with Sole 24 Ore: Crushing the Web 2.0 Myths Geert Lovink is a very well-known Internet critic; especially here in Australia. Here is Lovink at his best, taking on the myths of Web2.0 (interveiw on his own blog). GL: Indeed, we have left the post-dotcom era, a relatively quiet period that gave…
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EFF: Blogger’s Rights!
OK, the EFF (the Electronic Frontiers Foundation) have done some interesting work for many, many years. But they are a little too Libertarian for this blogger. And they are a little too, dare I say, American! It all about rights; the Bill of Rights, rights this; rights that. What about a Bill of Responsibilities? What about the responisibilies…