There have been a number of tragedies of late (e.g. the suicides in Bridgend) which supposedly featured the Internet in some capacity or another.
Of course, when such things happen people who didn’t grow up with the Internet put the blame on that relatively new medium for such tragedies.
While such views are misguided, it’s still worth wondering what the role of the Internet is in influencing the decisions made by the people concerned. Read more »
There’s a really fascinating article at Wired about blogs and websites tracking down urban eccentrics. You know who I mean. Read more »
This post is likely to be of interest mostly to those who are hosting a blog on Wordpress.com. Read more »
Following up on posts and pieces by Mark, Marcus Westbury and Ben Eltham, I’ve got a little point to make about the whole Towards a Creative Australia 2020 stream too. Read more »
As well as hosting public fora, one other thing LP is up to is facilitating conversation in livespace. I want to get away from the whole “meet a visiting blogger and get trashed” thing and more towards the have a few quiet Sunday drinks and have a convo thing. If you’re interested, and in Brisbane on Sunday, we’ll be at Kaliber in the TCB Building on the Brunswick Street Mall from 4pm. As Nabs might (just) recall, they do good cocktail. Read more »
It’s Bloggers Unite for Human Rights Day. Here’s a quick focus on two blogs/bloggers: Read more »
There’s a thought provoking review of Richard Barbrook’s new book Imaginary Futures: From thinking machines to the Global village at Mute magazine. Read more »
Director of the Centre for Policy Development, and 2020 summit delegate, Miriam Lyons, writes in today’s Crikey (republished with permission):
Suddenly ideas are sexy. The Australia 2020 Summit has done for Deep Thought what Australian Idol did for karaoke - what was once a mildly embarrassing hobby best practised under cover of drunkenness is now played live to a national audience. Read more »
A fascinating little tidbit on PollieGraph from Rachel Hills about Malcolm Turnbull’s web 2.0 politics. (At least he gets these intertubes I guess…) Rachel (rightly) thinks Turnbull’s degrees of access regime on his Facebook profile raises some interesting questions about pollies and online interaction.
The term ‘moral panic’ is actually one of the contributions of sociology to the wider world - it originated with Stanley Cohen’s 1972 monograph Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and the Rockers, which if you ever get a chance, is actually quite a fascinating rea Read more »
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