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Category Archives: Media and politics

google kevin in oh-seven

Saturday, September 15, 2007

Duncan Riley has a report up on TechCrunch about an Australian Elections site launched by Google. It is not fully operational yet, and his review is short, but the space is worth tagging to keep an eye on.
Apparently it is not the first time Google has set something up for an election either.
This lovely image [...]

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too many links, too little time

Sunday, July 9, 2006

This site claims to be a pioneering citizen journalism website – maybe in Canada, that is just what it is.
A new blog, on gaming and libraries. Link via Digital Koans (see my Information Management blogs, on the right.)
Kim Pearson at BlogHer, in her post, ‘Can newspapers do blogs right?’ links to an interesting forum at [...]

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hardly an atomised blogger, Guy Rundle

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Wow, hurrah for our venerable leader James F. About time The Age pulled their finger out and employed someone who knows exactly what he’s doing.
And apart from his blog networks which support up to 10,000 bloggers at a throw, it’s not hard to see why he would be appointed online community editor for a [...]

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for journos in training

Monday, May 22, 2006

And now for something completely different – if you have any serious interviewing happening soon, Andrew Cline of Rhetorica has a great .ppt presentation to get your pointy bits all sharpened up.

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beeb catalogue is bigger than google earth now

Monday, May 1, 2006

More from Ben Hammersley and his friends: the experimental prototype of the BBC Programme Catalogue has been released. Courtesy of some slick work with Ruby on Rails by Hammersley, Matt Biddulph and others. Having worked briefly last year at ABC Archives on databases similar to those released into the Internet wild by these fellows, I [...]

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