Sending Ripples

Personal Web of Ideas

This is not what my internet looks like:

Comment ça-va?

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A good proportion of my time is spent commenting on articles. It’s the best way to thrash out an argument or continue a discussion.

Media convergence has made this possible.

My favourite shows for discussion are Q&A, Insight, Dateline, Jon Faine on 774, Neil Mitchell on 3AW, and ABC’s The Drum. And the one thing these shows have in common? Audience participation.

Blogs are not dissimilar.

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Steal This Blog

Have You Got What You Paid For?

Is ©opyright dead?

Will free culture kill creativity?

The story goes like this:

1. People are not paying for Art any more.

2. Artists will not produce new Art if they don’t get paid.

3. Art will die.

Well, this logic is a load of bulltish, since a lot of Art is done as a hobby anyway. But it points to a broader discussion of copyright.

Blog Design

Cool Has No Law

I intend to be cool

  Although, I think being cool is like being a celebrity:
  If you have to say it, it probably ain't true.
  Being cool, though, does not just mean being popular:
  it can  mean cold, awesome, interesting, quirky,
  inspiring, exhilarating, disinterested, bad, calm, wonderful.

So what is information cool?

Hunting for homos

The coverage of homosexuality in the Australian media recently has rivalled that of countries like Uganda and Iran, where same sex love is punishable by death by stoning.

Too harsh?

The Herald Sun and Channel Seven have been the main offenders, while Channel Ten’s The 7 PM Project deserves a fabulous round of applause.

Jason Akermanis’s comments were of course the worst. But worse for the Herald Sun newspaper to publish them.

You call that a Niche?

This is a niche!

I just wanna big it up for the Net Communications blog.
It was really cool to check out other student blogs. They gave me a lot of inspiration. But enough ass-kissing…

As this blog is about Australian media, you would think the niche is pretty large. But it really isn’t.

South Park offends Muslims, Jews, Christians? No Sh*t

Muhammad may have been a prophet, but he didn’t see this coming

Didn’t the 16th Century happen like 500 years ago? Are people still scared of ideas? What’s going on?

In case you haven’t heard, about ten people got angry about a recent South Park episode which pictures the Islamic prophet Muhammad (think tarot cards, astrology, crystal balls, tea leaves…etc) wearing a bear suit. Fair enough-bear suits deeply offend me as well.

The Age of Catherine Deveny is not over

Catherine Deveny loses less than The Age

Catherine Deveny should not have been sacked from The Age. The paper has lost support from her fans, and gained no new readers from her dismissal. From their point of view, a devenstating mistake.

ABC advertising for Winfield cigarettes

Rudd gets tough on fags while Aunty takes a smoko

Remember the good old days where real men smoked Marlboro Reds? Not anymore. Not for Kevin Rudd anyway, who announced today more tax on tobacco.

Kev may be from ‘the country’ – but he’s no Marlboro man. It seems he has adapted just fine to the big city life of our nation’s capital.

Well, despite what Kev said today about tobacco, the journos at the ABC have decided to run a piece paradoxically dedicated to Kevin Rudd’s announcement and Winfield cigarettes.

Carl Williams killer

Williams killer on trial already

The Age today reported on the killer of Carl Williams, who faced court yesterday. The man’s identity is supposed to be a secret but The Age may as well have told us where the guy lives. You can see the colour of his thin eyebrows, his bald head, large build, mouth and ears.