Weekly Whimsy
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by the Twitter hashtag #LessAmbitiousBooks. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
Guest post by Rachel Hills: 4 articles I'd like to read about the spill
Rachel Hills writes: Yesterday Australia swore in its first female Prime Minister. She’s also our first atheist prime minister, and our first prime minister without children. So yays. She’s done a good job in her first 24 hours. More interesting to [...]
To the beat of a different drum
With a fair bit of ado, the ABC launched its new opinion website, The Drum, on Monday. It’s edited by Jonathan Green, formerly of Crikey, to whom congratulations are due, as they are to Sophie Black who’s had a very [...]
Twitter, blogging, social media and the Iranian election
There’s been a ton of discussion about the role of social media in the protests ensuing on the Iranian election. Two notable posts are those by Rosanna Ryan at ABC Online and my QUT colleague Terry Flew at his eponymous [...]
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