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UPDATE: Grodscorp’s weekly podcast, this time including discussion of the Blair move, is here. NSFW - frequent coarse language.

I think it’s fair to say that we here at Gatewatching have had an… interesting relationship with Tim Blair’s blog since we started posting here last year. I won’t go over the details of our spat - [...]

I’m sure many of you have Andrew Landeryou’s “The Other Cheek” in your RSS readers. Those who do will have seen that over this weekend he’s been revealing a story about the Victorian Liberals that he’s calling “blog-gate“. The Sunday Age also wrote this story up today.
Two Liberal staffers, it seems, have been anonymously authoring [...]

Kevin Rennie is one of the really valuable and interesting voices in the Australian blogosphere. Labor View from Broome has for more than a year given the rest of us a real insight into life in one of the most remote and underreported areas in Australia.
One of my abiding concerns about Australia’s blogosphere is [...]

This could end up rivalling the Keating/Albrechtsen stoush. The reason it’s of interest to Gatewatching is the way it’s played out over on- and offline outlets. It starts with Ellis here on the ABC’s Unleashed, making some possibly ill-advised speculation about the Clintons’ private life. Blair takes exception on his blog. Then [...]

Our colleague Terry Flew has a brand spanking new blog. So far, he’s been doing some on-the-ground reporting on the US Primaries (Terry’s in the States on a sabbatical at the moment), but no doubt the blog will come to include Terry’s academic interests, including citizen journalism. Go visit!

This is a quick return post after a long and excellent adventure for me, which took in the “Politics and Web 2.0″ conference at Royal Holloway in the UK, and the Future of Journalism conference down in Sydney last week. I’ll post more extensively on these a little later on, but for now I’m going [...]

Brisbane.The post-lunch session at AMIC 2008 starts with Zheng Jiawen from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, whose focus is on citizen journalism in China - and particular, on Zola Zhou, popularly recognised as China’s first citizen journalist. Broadly, citizen journalism is a public response to the inadequate performance of the mainstream journalism industry (and rose [...]

Brisbane.I was the first presenter in the next session at AMIC 2008 (and my presentation on citizen journalism in the 2007 Australian federal election is already online here). Hopefully the audio recording worked as well - I’ll add it as soon as possible. The audio from my talk is now online.
Kitty van Vuuren from the [...]

Brisbane. We’re now in the opening session of the AMIC conference “Convergence, Citizen Journalism and Social Change“. Today is just a short afternoon with a couple of keynote speeches; tomorrow, the bulk of the papers (including my colleague Jason Wilson’s and mine) will be presented. Pradip Thomas from the University of Queensland is offering some [...]

Good news! Our University has purchased a site license for Leximancer, and we’ll be making extensive use of it in our research on the Australian blogosphere.
The blurb from the website gives a pretty neat summary of what Leximancer does:

Leximancer is a software tool that enables users to find meaning from text-based documents. It automatically identifies [...]