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Jeff Jarvis smacks down the American media’s love for (and lack of skill at) horse race politics:
It’s amazing that reporters love horse-race coverage since they’re so damned lousy at it…
Any idiot can bet on a horse and lose. And there’s a word for them. Losers.
While we’ve also been quite critical here about the Australian [...]

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Club Bloggery: Once were barons
By Axel Bruns, Jason Wilson, and Barry Saunders
The Bulletin magazine, published by ACP, has closed down after almost 130 years of publishing.
Though we often give the print media a hard time here at Club Bloggery, [...]

Dan Hunter of the University of Melbourne at the Computer Games, Law, Regulation, Policy Symposium 2008 speaking on innovation, property and virtual worlds.

Fred von Lohmann of the EFF at the Computer Games, Law, Regulation, Policy Symposium 2008, talking about copyright and contract law as it pertains to machinima.

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Pip Starr was a Melbourne activist filmmaker. He made powerful, intense documentaries about injustice. His documentary, Through the Wire is a heartbreaking account of the Woomera protests and a powerful indictment of Australia’s policy of compulsory detention of asylum seekers.

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. [...]

So, I’ve been kicking around on Facebook lately. My colleagues have posted some interesting analysis of Facebook, which I am still thinking about. I like Facebook, in a way that I never got into Myspace. I’ve caught up with friends from highschool who I haven’t seen for years, even played scrabble with them, but there’s [...]