gatewatching

The fourth instalment of our Club Bloggery series for ABC Online has now been published. Given all the controversy, we couldn’t go past adding our own thoughts about the ‘worm’ incident which has taken up so much of the media limelight following the leaders’ debate last week. Our piece has already been published on the [...]

As well as our regular co-written posts, I thought this blog would be a useful space for some timely practice-based reflections on youdecide2007, and my role there.
Youdecide2007 is the project we’re running with some other folks to create a citizen-led coverage of the 2007 Australian Federal Election.
I’m keenly aware that there are scores [...]

The next Club Bloggery for ABC Online is up. Here’s another version of the piece. This one is coming to grips with how issues early in the election campaign have played out in the blogosphere.
Beyond Gotcha: Blogs as a space for debate.
Jason Wilson, Axel Bruns, Barry Saunders.
The mainstream media and critics of [...]

Well, the next instalment of our Club Bloggery series for ABC Online has now been published. Here’s a slightly earlier, longer version of the piece, which asks quite simply what we know about the real impact of blogging on political debate in Australia, beyond the realm of those already addicted to the machinations of the [...]

The announcement of the Greensblog is an interesting example for the possibilities of blogging for minority political parties. Clearly drawing inspiration from Democrats Senator Andrew Bartlett’s blog , it shows the value of the blogging format for discussing political positions that fall outside the easy left-right, Labor-Liberal soundbite-based journalism often found in the industrial mainstream. [...]