"The poor will always be with us"; Abbott's Brutopia
It must be ‘write an op/ed for Fairfax about something a political leader said to me’ week. First, Nina Funnell, and now Michael Perusco: I was in Canberra last week and had the opportunity to ask Opposition Leader Tony Abbott [...]
On Movember, Tim Soutphommasane and civics
A while back I wrote – in rather skeptical vein – about Tim Soutphommasane’s claim that progressives should be reclaiming patriotism. Guy Rundle has now reviewed Soutphommasane’s book, Reclaiming Patriotism: nation building for Australian progressives, for Crikey (of which more [...]
Government 2.0 and politics 2.0
There’s been a fair bit of interesting reading about government 2.0 initiatives (the new ‘branding’ for what used to be called e-democracy or e-government) lately; probably prompted by a summit on the topic in Washington DC and the Australian government’s [...]
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 [...]
Cheryl Kernot on social enterprise and the participation society
While the ‘economic management debate’ rumbles along its predictable partisan grooves, something interesting has been taking place elsewhere – something of a concatenation of the better legacies of the communitarianism of the 90s and a shift in values which has [...]
Blogging as a technique for the cultivation of trust
With all the discussion of blogwars around the place recently, I thought it might be apposite to put a different perspective. I was inspired (as I often am) by a couple of comments by Pavlov’s Cat – on a thread [...]
Victorian bushfire memorial and appeal event map
The Victorian government is using google map technology to enable people at community level to organise memorials and fundraisers related to the bushfires in their local area. Check it out here.
More developments in online independent media
Last week, I noted the sad end of the Road to Surfdom and mused about the future of independent online media. While some things come to an end, other things begin, and I thought it would be a useful postscript [...]
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