Social media 'State of the Art' report
I’m pleased to say that the report Axel Bruns and I wrote for the Social Media project in the Smart Services CRC a few months back has now been released. It should be available on the CRC website soon, but [...]
The age of creativity?
In a post reproducing and expanding on his op/ed in the Australian Financial Review today, Andrew Leigh writes: For not-so-surprising reasons, I’ve been thinking lately about lifecycles. My AFR op-ed today (partially written with a newborn babe in the crook [...]
US Army leaves Iraq's cities
The Iraqi people seem to have spoken – and pretty loudly. With the nominal end of US troops in Iraqi cities, “Victory Day” was declared a national holiday across the country, accompanied by considerable celebration. Iraq, of course, remains a [...]
Not a knock out
A while back, we had a look in a couple of posts at News Limited’s launch of The Punch, an opinion website (which, I guess, is a fancy name for a group blog). I suggested at the time that Crikey [...]
The Affluenza myth
Don Arthur wrote an excellent post at Troppo last week, which is an object lesson in how ideological positions collapse when confronted with careful empirical work: Australia is in the midst of a flat-screen TV crisis, says Clive Hamilton. Driven [...]
Utegate: That went well, then…
In the wake of Utegate, The Age reports: Mr Turnbull’s approval is his lowest ever, and the lowest for an opposition leader since the final weeks of Brendan Nelson, the man he toppled. Mr Turnbull’s net approval — calculated by [...]
Waxman-Markey passes US house of reps
A bill setting up a US emissions trading system – known as Waxman-Markey after its two cosponsors – has passed the US house of reps, squeaking through 219-212 with 8 Republicans “yes” votes and 44 Democrat “noes”. Some of those [...]
Lazy Sunday!
Since we don’t live by politix alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all!
So who killed GroceryChoice?
The first incarnation of GroceryChoice was pretty useless, but GroceryChoice Mk II would have been a big improvement. So what prompted Craig Emerson to kill it, a few days before launch? Emerson’s media release claims that it wouldn’t work, because [...]
Saturday Salon
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
RIP Michael Jackson
Here’s the ABC news story, there’s hundreds more on every news site. Whatever his flaws and eccentricities as a person, he was responsible for some of the catchiest pop music ever performed. ELSEWHERE: Tim Dunlop.
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