gatewatching

The latest Club Bloggery is up on the ABC. Here’s is the longer version.
By Jason Wilson, Barry Saunders, and Axel Bruns
Climate change dominated a couple of days of Federal Election campaigning earlier this week, with the major parties both fumbling in laying out their responses. Peter Garrett and Malcolm Turnbull were punished by the mainstream [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]