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Media140 Sydney is asking “What is the future of journalism in the Social Media Age?” It's an important question to be asking in these times of newspaper companies in trouble and growth of new media channels. The venue is the ABC’s Eugene Goossens’ Hall, Sydney on November
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The other night I caught up with some folks who (except for @dbendall) also happen to use Twitter (@fibendall, @iggypintado, @kerrypintado) at a local pub for some grub, a drink, lively conversation & exchange of ideas. Now this is a smart and entertaining bunch of people. But some of the
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This news item from Techcrunch - hat tip to @jowyang for the link - makes me conscious of how precious are our freedoms of speech and association. People fought hard in the past to achieve those freedoms for us and we need to protect them. Some bloggers in other countries
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On the Slate website Hart Seely has collected some of the truly classic poems of our time - they are taken from briefings listed on the Dept of Defense website. The Unknown As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There
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Just back from the Blogtalk Downunder conference that was held here in Sydney over the past few days. The conference was organised by the education department from the University of Technology Sydney, and the attendees were largely academics and teachers. There were a few industry people there, notably Trevor Cook
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Thanks to Hughie from University of Queensland for the info that transcripts of Harvard's Blogging, Journalism & Credibility conference are available at: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/webcred/Interesting stuff posted to it (it's a blog) and also to Collected Reactions from Participants Aggregated Feeds of
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Many people have noted how annoying it is to go to a meeting and experience the well-know 'death by Powerpoint' phenomenon. But one person who's made the argument most excellently is Peter Norvig, when he put the Gettysburg Address on PowerPoint. This simple action encapsulates all