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In the future we’ll get together with old mates, sitting around drinking red wine, and the conversation will go like this:
“aww yeah, those geocities sites, man, they totally hurt my eyes”
“yup, and those sites with like, 10 point times new roman bright pink text on a black background, with a huge yellow heading..”
“and the little [...]
The internet hasn’t caught up to radio or tv for entertainment but it’s gaining fast. Internet users listen to more recorded music than non-users, half of them use the internet for accessing music, quarter listen to a radio station, but more than 80% have never downloaded a podcast….and there’s more.
12-05-08 - More »Barack Obama spoke for 13 riveting minutes when he won Iowa, and if we still lived in an era when the nightly TV bulletin was the only way of getting news, I’d have never seen it. But now, being able to deliver that kind of exciting speech is getting more and more valuable.
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During the quiet period between Christmas and New Year’s Stephen Conroy, the new Australian Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, announced that the government would be making it “mandatory for all internet service providers to provide clean feeds, or ISP filtering, to houses and schools that are free of pornography and inappropriate material.” [...]
02-05-08 - More »From an email conversation comes my thesis about music & yoof radio in a participatory era.
28-05-07 - More »At the Deadly Arts Business Gathering, I ran a workshop/presentation on how to get a podcast published using free, legal tools wherever possible.
Lots of open source software and free hosting, and I used a 6 year old windows laptop that I used to own, but that I sold to Underbelly dance for about $100 four [...]
I’ve been schmapped around.
17-05-07 - More »The kids on YouTube
This idea’s well and truly been taken over by the kids on YouTube, but that ain’t no reason to run with it for a while: We release a whole bunch of the footage which is our musical heritage and let it out for mass remixing.
Here are a couple of example pieces I [...]
Big Love
To Andrew Urban, who was the best vox-popper I ever saw. He had a show called Front Up on SBS where he’d just stop people on the street and ask them what was going on in their lives.
When I’m listening to music on public transport, a lot of the [...]
Back in 2003 a film-maker called Simon Georgeoff spent some time in Detroit, collecting video from the city’s hip-hop scene.
I put together a small website for him, using a few of those lovely video posting sites that are coming up to challange YouTube. The video is hosted and published through Revver, using that site’s syndication, [...]
Your opinion is desired; pick the topic that most appeals to you and I’ll put together a forum on it. Then you can turn up, have a drink, and join in, opine, or just listen.
More »Mayhill Fowler, who nailed two huge scoops on the US campaign trail, has claimed the title citizen journalist, which is only a credible description because most political reporting is so compromised.
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