From jim.barrett at humlab.umu.se Sun Apr 4 21:39:44 2010 From: jim.barrett at humlab.umu.se (Jim Barrett) Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 21:39:44 +0200 (CEST) Subject: ::fibreculture:: Understanding Machinima Message-ID: <61320.213.21.84.122.1270409984.squirrel@webmail.umu.se> UNDERSTANDING MACHINIMA: essays on filmmaking in virtual worlds Call for Papers Submissions are invited for an edited book with the working title Understanding Machinima: essays on filmmaking in virtual worlds. Machinima - referring to "filmmaking within a real-time, 3D virtual environment, often using 3D video-game technologies" as well as works which use this animation technique, including videos recorded in computer games or virtual worlds - is challenging the notion of the moving image in numerous media contexts, such as video games, animation, digital cinema and virtual worlds. Machinima's increasingly dynamic use and construction of images from virtual worlds - appropriated, imported, worked over, re-negotiated, re-configured, re composed - not only confronts the conception and ontology of the recorded moving image, but also blurs the boundaries between contemporary media forms, definitions and aesthetics, converging filmmaking, animation, virtual world and game development. Even as it poses these theoretical challenges, machinima is expanding as a practice via internet networks and fan-based communities as well as in pedagogical and marketing contexts. In these ways, machinima is also transformative, presenting alternative ways and modes of teaching and commercial promotion, in-game events and, perhaps most significantly, networking cultures and community-building within game, virtual and filmmaking worlds, among others. Divided into these two sections - machinima (i) in theoretical analysis; and (ii) as practice - this first collection of essays seeks to explore how we can understand machinima in terms of the theoretical challenges it poses as well as its manifestations as a practice. We are primarily concerned with offering critical discussions of its history, theory, aesthetics, media form and social implications, as well as insights into its development and the promise of what it can become. How does machinima fit in the spectrum of media forms? What are the ontological differences between images from machinima and photochemical/digital filmmaking? How does machinima co-opt the affordances of the game engine to provide narrative? How may machinima, developed from the products of game and virtual world marketing, be used as an artistic tool? How is machinima self-reflexive, if at all, of the virtual environments from which they arise? What are the implications of re-deploying these media formats into alternative media forms? How does the open-source economy that currently defines much of global machinima relate it to broader cultural production generally? In particular, we are looking for essays that address (but not limited to) the following ideas: * History: context; definitions; culture; relationships to gaming and play; development of technology; hardware and games; archiving of play; * Theory: image; ontology; time; space; narrative; realism; spectatorship; subjectivity; virtual camera; materiality; * Aesthetics: poetics; play; visuality; d?tournement; remix; digital mashup; appropriation; recombinative narratives; audio and visual theory; spatiality; narrative architecture; * Contemporary media contexts: comparative media; machinima vis-?-vis video games, (digital) cinema, animation, virtual worlds; the visual economy of machinima versus film * Communities: Machinima as community-based practice and performance; user created content; online publishing; fan (fiction) communities; open source; cultural reflection * Pedagogy: digital literacy; teaching models and practices; student-centered learning; critical making; collaborative authorship; rhetorics; problem based learning; * Marketing: crowd sourcing; viral marketing; peer to peer sharing; commercials, trailer promotions; grass roots versus astro turf; serials and sequels. Please submit a 400 word abstract and a short bio via e-mail to understandingmachinima at gmail.com by 30 August 2010. We expect that final essays should not exceed 7,000 words and be due on 30 December 2010. Jenna P-S. Ng James Barrett HUMlab, Ume? University Sweden From BBarnet at groupwise.swin.edu.au Mon Apr 5 23:19:01 2010 From: BBarnet at groupwise.swin.edu.au (Belinda Barnet) Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 07:19:01 +1000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: NEW BOOK: Letters, Postcards, Email: Technologies of presence Message-ID: <4BBAE066020000E200056E8B@groupwise.swin.edu.au> Announcing a new book from Routledge: Esther Milne, Letters, Postcards, Email: Technologies of Presence (Routledge, 2010). http://www.routledge.com/books/Letters-Postcards-Email-isbn9780415993289 Contemporary accounts of the impact of electronic, digitally networked cultures often construct an apocalyptic narrative of decisive shifts and abrupt breaks: the new technology arrives, it seems, out of nowhere, sweeping away the old and ushering in the new. In response to such accounts, Letters, Postcards, Email: Technologies of Presence argues that the relation between old and new communication systems is more complex than allowed in current media theory. Narratives of change are dramatically complicated by the striking continuities between different communication systems. In this original study, Esther Milne focuses on one of these continuities, specifically a fantasy of presence that, she argues, pervades the socio-technical representations of letters, postcards and emails. What are the enabling conditions for presence to function as a technological and rhetorical strategy across distributed communication platforms? To address this question Milne explores historically the symbolic and material representations of presence through three media sites: a networked postal community of nineteenth-century letter writers; postcard correspondence of First World War soldiers; and a contemporary email discussion list. Although a number of writers have productively historicised the socio-critical formulations of presence, telepresence and co-presence, these phenomena have usually been confined to representations within electronic media. (eg Coyne, 2001; Glotz et al, 2005; Goldberg 2000; Hjorth, 2005, 2007; Ito, 2005; Lombard and Ditton, 1997; Mitchell, 1999; Murphy, 2000; Ryan, 1999; Sconce, 2000; Sheridan, 1992; Sobchack, 1994). What remains under-examined is the extent to which older technologies, such as the postal service, also enable an experience of intimacy, immediacy, immersion and presence. Furthermore, when epistolary scholars have investigated the production of presence through literary or aesthetic formations, they have limited the focus to a discrete site: either the letter as a ?real?, historical artefact (eg Decker, 1998) or the letter?s representational deployment through fiction and art (eg Kauffman, 1992) . In contrast, Milne traces the affective configuration of presence through empirical data; material bases; and rhetorical structures, to demonstrate the interrelation between imagined presence and notions of intimacy, privacy and disembodiment. Although the correspondents of letters, postcards and emails are not, usually, present to one another as they write and read their exchanges, this does not necessarily inhibit affective communication. Indeed, this study demonstrates how physical absence may, in some instances, provide correspondents with intense intimacy and a spiritual, almost telepathic, sense of the other?s presence. While corresponding by letter, postcard or email, readers construe an imaginary, incorporeal body for their correspondents that, in turn, reworks their interlocutor?s self-presentation. In this regard the fantasy of presence reveals a key paradox of cultural communication, namely that material signifiers can be used to produce the experience of incorporeal presence. Contents: List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1: "The Conscious Presence of a Central Intellect": British Postal History 2: "The simple transcripts of natural feeling": Signifiers of Presence in Epistolary Practice 3: "Ghosts of all my impertinent letters": Presence in Crisis 4: "The Self-conscious air of the reproduced": Postcard History 5: "A photo of the ship that I am now on": Signifiers of Presence, Intimacy and Privacy in Postcard Correspondence 6: A Brief History of Electronic Mail 7: "In my sickness": Constructing Presence on the Cybermind Discussion Group Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index About the Author: Faculty of Life and Social Sciences, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia. She researches the history of networked postal communication systems and celebrity production within the socio-regulatory contexts of law. http://www.routledge.com/books/Letters-Postcards-Email-isbn9780415993289 bit.ly/cOMdEh **************************************** From BBarnet at groupwise.swin.edu.au Tue Apr 6 10:49:09 2010 From: BBarnet at groupwise.swin.edu.au (Belinda Barnet) Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:49:09 +1000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: NEW BOOK: Letters, Postcards, Email: Technologies of presence Message-ID: <4BBB8225020000E200056F0D@groupwise.swin.edu.au> Announcing a new book from Routledge: Esther Milne, Letters, Postcards, Email: Technologies of Presence (Routledge, 2010). http://www.routledge.com/books/Letters-Postcards-Email-isbn9780415993289 Contemporary accounts of the impact of electronic, digitally networked cultures often construct an apocalyptic narrative of decisive shifts and abrupt breaks: the new technology arrives, it seems, out of nowhere, sweeping away the old and ushering in the new. In response to such accounts, Letters, Postcards, Email: Technologies of Presence argues that the relation between old and new communication systems is more complex than allowed in current media theory. Narratives of change are dramatically complicated by the striking continuities between different communication systems. In this original study, Esther Milne focuses on one of these continuities, specifically a fantasy of presence that, she argues, pervades the socio-technical representations of letters, postcards and emails. What are the enabling conditions for presence to function as a technological and rhetorical strategy across distributed communication platforms? To address this question Milne explores historically the symbolic and material representations of presence through three media sites: a networked postal community of nineteenth-century letter writers; postcard correspondence of First World War soldiers; and a contemporary email discussion list. Although a number of writers have productively historicised the socio-critical formulations of presence, telepresence and co-presence, these phenomena have usually been confined to representations within electronic media. (eg Coyne, 2001; Glotz et al, 2005; Goldberg 2000; Hjorth, 2005, 2007; Ito, 2005; Lombard and Ditton, 1997; Mitchell, 1999; Murphy, 2000; Ryan, 1999; Sconce, 2000; Sheridan, 1992; Sobchack, 1994). What remains under-examined is the extent to which older technologies, such as the postal service, also enable an experience of intimacy, immediacy, immersion and presence. Furthermore, when epistolary scholars have investigated the production of presence through literary or aesthetic formations, they have limited the focus to a discrete site: either the letter as a ?real?, historical artefact (eg Decker, 1998) or the letter?s representational deployment through fiction and art (eg Kauffman, 1992) . In contrast, Milne traces the affective configuration of presence through empirical data; material bases; and rhetorical structures, to demonstrate the interrelation between imagined presence and notions of intimacy, privacy and disembodiment. Although the correspondents of letters, postcards and emails are not, usually, present to one another as they write and read their exchanges, this does not necessarily inhibit affective communication. Indeed, this study demonstrates how physical absence may, in some instances, provide correspondents with intense intimacy and a spiritual, almost telepathic, sense of the other?s presence. While corresponding by letter, postcard or email, readers construe an imaginary, incorporeal body for their correspondents that, in turn, reworks their interlocutor?s self-presentation. In this regard the fantasy of presence reveals a key paradox of cultural communication, namely that material signifiers can be used to produce the experience of incorporeal presence. Contents: List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1: "The Conscious Presence of a Central Intellect": British Postal History 2: "The simple transcripts of natural feeling": Signifiers of Presence in Epistolary Practice 3: "Ghosts of all my impertinent letters": Presence in Crisis 4: "The Self-conscious air of the reproduced": Postcard History 5: "A photo of the ship that I am now on": Signifiers of Presence, Intimacy and Privacy in Postcard Correspondence 6: A Brief History of Electronic Mail 7: "In my sickness": Constructing Presence on the Cybermind Discussion Group Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index About the Author: Faculty of Life and Social Sciences, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia. She researches the history of networked postal communication systems and celebrity production within the socio-regulatory contexts of law. http://www.routledge.com/books/Letters-Postcards-Email-isbn9780415993289 bit.ly/cOMdEh From geert at xs4all.nl Wed Apr 7 10:00:28 2010 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 10:00:28 +0200 Subject: ::fibreculture:: announcement of the fibreculture list restart (please fwd.) Message-ID: <8F651CB2-D443-42CB-BADA-1E689833CE52@xs4all.nl> Restart of the Fibreculture Mailinglist Please join the list and subscribe now! To register, please visit: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/fibreculture_listcultures.org After a period of technical difficulties and uncertainty about its destiny, the Fibreculture (email) list has been revitalized. Founded by David Teh and Geert Lovink the list started in January 2001. The aim of the Fibreculture initiative is to be a platform for critical, interdisciplinary new media research in Australia. The list soon spun off a range of activities, from real-life meetings, a website, publications, and, most significantly, the Fibreculture Journal, which launched in 2003. Recent developments such as Conroy?s censorship plans, the new media stagnation in education, broadband politics and Google?s position in all this has prompted us to restart the list. The Fibreculture initiative organized a one day seminar on the censorship plan at the University of Sydney on December 16, 2009. The Fibreculture Journal is thriving and there are plans to move into digital publishing. For the time being there will not be a seperate announcement list but if traffic will be high, and the desire is there to seperate dialogue from announcements, this can easily be set up. Wellcome back, Fibreculture list! The Fibreculture Editorial Team (Everyone and No One) www.fibreculture.org From geert at xs4all.nl Fri Apr 9 11:29:08 2010 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 11:29:08 +0200 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Rather Than Respond To Criticism Of Aussie Censorship Plan, Conroy Attacks Google Message-ID: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100330/1005548787.shtml Rather Than Respond To Criticism Of Aussie Censorship Plan, Conroy Attacks Google by Mike Masnick from the that'll-win-them-over dept on Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 @ 11:53PM With more and more complaints coming in about Stephen Conroy's plan in Australia to start censoring the internet, it appears that Conroy, rather than responding to the critics, has decided to just lash out at them. For example Google recently filed comments with the Australian gov't suggesting that the plan was "heavy-handed" and raised "genuine questions about restrictions on access to information." Now, these seem like legit concerns -- and from what we've heard, many citizens in Australia agree. So you might think that Conroy, the main backer of the plan and Australia's Communications Minister would take the complaints seriously and respond to them. Instead, he just starts trashing Google over a variety of totally unrelated issues and taking quotes totally out of context: "Recently the founders of Google have got themselves into a little bit of trouble because notwithstanding their alleged 'do no evil' policy, they recently created something called Buzz, and there was a reaction, and people said well look aren't you publishing private information?," Senator Conroy said. "[Google CEO Eric] Schmidt said the following: 'If you have something that you don't want anyone to know maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place'. This is the founder of Google. He also said recently to Wall Street analysts, 'we love cash', so when people say, shouldn't we just leave it up to the Googles of this world to determine what the filtering policy should be...." Of course, none of that has anything to do with the censorship plan. With the Buzz controversy, it's also worth noting that within hours of the controversy coming out, Google changed its plans and corrected its mistakes. Has Conroy done that at all? Nope. The Schmidt quotes are then both taken totally out of context and also have absolutely nothing to do with filters. No one is saying that it should be Google who determines what the filtering policy is, but Google did raise important questions, which Conroy doesn't even bother to address. And it's not just Google. As the article notes, these comments were made on a radio program where the majority of phone calls were against the censorship proposal. And yet Conroy wants to "defend" the proposal by attacking Google? On the whole, it seems like a lot more people are willing to trust Google than trust Conroy to tell them what they can and cannot do with their internet connections. 27 Comments | Leave a Comment.. Reader Comments (rss) (Flattened / Threaded) ? Mar 31st, 2010 @ 12:27am by Sarah James What can you say - Conroy is clearly a buffoon. The only people who want this filter is a very small but powerful Christian right lobby who are keen to live in a theocratic dictatorship. All rational intelligent people are against it because they can see it for what it is: a serious threat to civil liberties and freedom of speech and democracy itself. (reply to this comment) (link to this comment) ? Mar 31st, 2010 @ 12:27am by Anonymous Coward wow i love his out of context quotes (reply to this comment) (link to this comment) ? Mar 31st, 2010 @ 12:33am by sinsi (profile) He (and the Labor party) are in the shit because of ONE senator (family first) and the need to coddle him to get his votes. Once Sen. Fielding is dumped at the next election, Rudd&Co can kill this. Look, how long has this been going on? They are milking it until the election this year to keep his vote, that's all. (reply to this comment) (link to this comment) ? Mar 31st, 2010 @ 1:13am ok christians by NUKE intellectual property if say you cant afford he fine and goto prison is that were you want a kid who downloaded a music tune and just how much does that incarceration cost YEA suddenly whose not thinking of children anymore..... (reply to this comment) (link to this comment) ? Mar 31st, 2010 @ 1:26am Re: by Big Al Unfortunately I don't think they will kill it. It's far too useful a tool if it gets through for them to ignore. After all, 'Refused classification' can be a very broad brush for censorship of ideas the Ruddites aren't comfortable with... (dons foil helmet) (reply to this comment) (link to this comment) ? Mar 31st, 2010 @ 1:44am hahha by JC Carter Conroy? Unwilling to address legitimate criticism? Stop the presses! That man is an idiot. He's been told over and over that his pet project won't work, can't work, and he's been told explicitly why. Instead of listening, he keeps on trucking ahead. It's no surprise that he has to lash out like a child having a tantrum; he's not far removed from that scenario. (reply to this comment) (link to this comment) ? Mar 31st, 2010 @ 1:52am What exactly is the problem? by bigpallooka (profile) Aside from the fact that it is generally a bad policy to trust a politician, what exactly is the problem everyone has with the filter? If what Conroy has said over and over again is true then: 1. The independent tests show the 'slowing down' of the internet that the filter will cause is micro seconds, 2. The only thing that will be filtered is pages (not whole sites) that have been confirmed to contain content that is RC (Refused classification) in Australia i.e. Kiddie Porn, Snuff Films etc., 3. The list of pages (the so-called blacklist) will be monitored by an independent body (similar to the existing censorship body) so nothing that isn't illegal already for an Australian to upload onto a site will be included. I realise there is always the chance of the system being abused but no more than any other government funded institution. The only people I can see this affecting are people who want to access illegal content. Please tell me exactly what the concerns are. I'm finding it a little hard to get excited one way or the other. (reply to this comment) (link to this comment) ? Mar 31st, 2010 @ 2:03am Re: by Anonymous Coward Don't you mean the Christian Reich? (reply to this comment) (link to this comment) ? Mar 31st, 2010 @ 2:06am by JC Carter 1. independent tests don't show the effect of deep packet inspection on a national scale 2. So we're told. The problem is that nobody knows what's being filtered, and that's quite convenient, isn't it? 3. See above. As far as a "chance" of this being abused? It's almost a foregone conclusion. Not a chance of it being abused - its mere existence is abuse. The gov't cannot justify this filter because it cannot do its stated job: kiddie porn isn't trafficked on HTTP port 80 plain-old- websites, and even if it were, Tor or a VPN service would get around it without a hitch. So we have a filter that can't do what it says, but is perfect for controlling what you can and can't see online. Hmmm. RE: the red herring comparison to other gov't funded institutions, that's a horrible analogy because when they really have so few opportunities to destroy democratic freedoms on this scale. If you aren't worried about this filter, you simply don't understand what it implies. (reply to this comment) (link to this comment) ? Mar 31st, 2010 @ 2:15am Re: What exactly is the problem? by sinsi (profile) You forgot your sarcmark. 1. They tested with 3 small ISP's, less than 1000 people all up, and it wasn't 'microseconds'. 2. Tell that to the dentist in Qld. 3. We all trust an 'independant body' now, don't we. It isn't just 'illegal content', it's anything they decide. (reply to this comment) (link to this comment) ? Mar 31st, 2010 @ 2:18am I agree by Del Boy People just DO NOT like being told & controlled by political powers. Thats what the fuss is all about. Conroy should re-consider using this as a political issue & get back to whats important Health, Education, Employment & stop being a big nanny. It should never be a governments job to censor the internet, they are too bias - look at China. The internet belongs to the people & if they want to use it illegally then thats upto them, as long as they can do the time when caught. (reply to this comment) (link to this comment) ? Mar 31st, 2010 @ 4:51am Re: What exactly is the problem? by Seumas Hyslop (profile) The issue is that "refused classification" is a very broad classification that doesn't just include child pornography and snuff films, it can include politically sensitive material (like discussion of abortion and euthanasia), and it sets the bar far lower than illegality as the basis for having something blocked. What's more, there are no safeguards in what is blocked, and we are not told that it is being blocked. When a film is refused classification in Australia, we are able to freely discuss the film in the knowledge that it has been banned and can have a discussion about whether that's a good thing. With the proposed legislation, we can't do that about banned sites. Linking to sites that are on the banned list is associated with big fines and even prison. A system where someone decides what's banned based on a broad definition (including material which is not illegal), and then complete secrecy about its banning? You really can't see how that couldn't be abused? (reply to this comment) (link to this comment) ? Mar 31st, 2010 @ 4:52am Re: What exactly is the problem? by Anonymous Coward @bigpallooka 1. Not so. Some tests show up to 17% delay, but that's not really relevant either, because no tests have been done for the particular filtering he is now proposing. Microseconds don't sound like much, but that's per packet, and (as a computer engineer I'll tell you) when you have hundreds of Mbits or more flowing through an ISP they soon add up. 2. It doesn't include R or X rated stuff, only RC rated stuff (kids are still allowed to surf X rated...). Apart from child porn, RC material is perfectly legal to possess in Qld, NSW, Vic, SA and Tas. Material related to petty crimes such as graffiti or shoplifting could be blacklisted. Euthanasia and safe drug use would be censored. Computer games rated 17/18+ in the UK and US are RC here - they would be censored, despite being perfectly acceptable entertainment for adults. Some weird but not illegal fetishes would be censored. 3. Most bizarre of all, WE WON"T KNOW WHAT IS CENSORED. Perhaps you trust government appointed independent bodies, but I can't imagine why. I certainly don't. The government will be able to RC what it doesn't like. The people who want to access child porn will easily do so: - The filter can't filter everything (there is simply too much). -It only filters http traffic (not https, or ftp, or email, or p2p, or instant messaging, or streaming...). -Even the censored http content is easily accessed via proxy or vpn (virtually no knowledge required for either of these). So we bear the brunt (network performance drop, monitoring costs that ISPs will pass on to us), and child porn watchers remain unaffected. We also get put at the top of the slippery slope of secret government censorship, and gain the dubious honour of becoming the very first western democracy to use network level filtering (ie what The Great Firewall of China is made of). (reply to this comment) (link to this comment) ? Mar 31st, 2010 @ 5:40am Please explain by bigpallooka (profile) Without political bias (if that is even possible) is Conroy just unable to understand the technology, is he misinformed by his "experts" or has he just been given a job to do and his doing his political best to shout down the nay-sayers? I'm trying not to be gullible but I'm not big on conspiracy theories either. I don't happen to think it is possible to keep enough people silent (which is not an issue in this discussion) to believe that nefarious plans are afoot so why are they so adamant that it will go ahead? Political expediency? (Please the wowsers) Bloody mindedness? (I'm the minister so I know what is best) Putting aside the whole "internet shouldn't be censored" debate, governments do have an obligation to enable laws to be enforced so is there an alternative? Any creditable links would be appreciated. I hate being so obviously ignorant of the technical issues. Thanks for the information that has already been provided. It does give me something to Google! (reply to this comment) (link to this comment) ? Mar 31st, 2010 @ 5:57am by Planespotter (profile) Governments no longer represent the people, whether you are forced (Australia) or not forced (UK) to vote. The people have a much harder time getting their voice loud enough for it to be heard over the racket from paid lobbiests. Lobbiests who because of the large companies they represent are able to get the ear of a politician by slipping his campaign fund a few thousand in crisp notes. (reply to this comment) (link to this comment) ? Mar 31st, 2010 @ 6:12am Re: What exactly is the problem? by btr1701 (profile) > Please tell me exactly what the concerns are. I'm > finding it a little hard to get excited one way > or the other. Perhaps it's just a different philosophical outlook, but as far as I'm concerned, there is no need for, nor is it the proper place of government, to be telling me what I can and cannot see, read, hear or watch. I'm a grown adult and I can make these decisions for myself, thank you very much. I certainly don't need to be protected from the big bad world by a bunch of government bureaucrats who think they know better than me what's good for me. If people are uploading or looking at child porn, then punish them for doing it when it happens. But censoring the internet for 22 million people based on what a tiny few *might* do is ridiculous. It's a kindergarten approach to government and is unfortunately becoming all too prevalent around the world. And if memory serves, isn't in Australia where the government won't even make the censorship list itself public, so that the citizens know exactly what their government is hiding from them? Sounds like a system ripe for abuse. (reply to this comment) (link to this comment) ? Mar 31st, 2010 @ 6:14am Re: Re: What exactly is the problem? by btr1701 (profile) > Linking to sites that are on the banned list is > associated with big fines and even prison. And they won't make the list public so you the citizen have no idea what's banned and what isn't. So you may end up committing a crime by accident. Wonderful system! (reply to this comment) (link to this comment) ? Mar 31st, 2010 @ 6:38am Stephen Conroy's plan to censor the 'net by Bruce Heath It's fools like this who are trying to turn Australia into a "nanny state". A top heavy bureaucracy, too many layers of Government, too much interference in private lives "for our own good" - it's time to vote them out and win back our rights! (reply to this comment) (link to this comment) ? Mar 31st, 2010 @ 6:58am Same old plan by Krusty It's the old magician's trick of misdirection, and you know if you repeat a lie enough the sheeple will beleive you. (reply to this comment) (link to this comment) ? Mar 31st, 2010 @ 7:02am Re: ok christians by Hephaestus (profile) Thanks I can use that ... Just say no to ACTA Think of the children ... ;) (reply to this comment) (link to this comment) ? Mar 31st, 2010 @ 7:17am Re: by Boost It's not the right or the left. It's the people who stand to lose from people having access to all the information. (reply to this comment) (link to this comment) ? Mar 31st, 2010 @ 7:51am Re: Re: What exactly is the problem? by Krusty I certainly don't need to be protected from the big bad "DIGITAL" world by a bunch of government bureaucrats who think they know better than me what's good for me. There I fixed it for you, because those lame chuckleheads certainly can't protect you in the real world. (reply to this comment) (link to this comment) ? Mar 31st, 2010 @ 9:02am Google by Johnny Canada Google should make an annoucement that they 100 % in agreement with Stephen Conroy's plan as they have all this technology that was used in CHINA that is no longer required there. (sarcazm) (reply to this comment) (link to this comment) ? Mar 31st, 2010 @ 9:56am Re: by harbingerofdoom (profile) speaking of throwing rhetoric that has absolutely nothing to do with the actual topic at hand... (reply to this comment) (link to this comment) ? Mar 31st, 2010 @ 10:52am Growing up... by Freedom Maybe I'm just noticing it more as I get older and see through the BS, but it seems like a growing trend to ignore the questions raised by a XYZ group of concerned citizens and instead attack them on the personal front. This is my #1 sign of knowing when one side is full of it. In the US we see it with the tea party movement. Does the other party address the concerns with facts and honest debate? Nope, they instead call them haters, racists, and imply that they are so ignorant and stupid that their questions don't even have any merit. Yet, ironically if that was the case, then why not address the questions raised by the movement so everyone can really see just how stupid they really are ??? Freedom (reply to this comment) (link to this comment) ? Mar 31st, 2010 @ 2:19pm *sigh* by marak As an Australian, Id just like to say, its nice to have known you all! The last 10 years have been fun and im sure i can speak for all of Australia when i say we have laughed, cried, giggled, blogged and gamed our selves through the collective worlds of the internet. Soon we we will be no more, you may hear a whisper from us now and then, but our ''splendid isolation'' will return. Like England of old, we will be divided by a large ocean, with very little information about us getting out. Remember us fondly, we were not that arrogant, we instead were the flippant ones, always making jokes. We were not the destructive, we built for fun and laughter. We shall miss you all. - Australia A little over the top? Wait until each different group gets their hands on the ''secret'' filter list.... Ill probably end up in jail for working around the filter, but by god its going to be fun! (reply to this comment) (link to this comment) ? Mar 31st, 2010 @ 2:23pm ....About Senator Conroy by Daemon_ZOGG It would seem Senator Conroy is trying to push the initial stages of returning Australia to a prison colony. I would imagine that after the information and communication lines have been fully filtered(cut), limitations on movement and travel will be next. You'll need "special papers" to go anywhere. He's a Chinese Government Stooge and he knows it. (reply to this comment) (link to this comment) Add Your Comment Have a Techdirt Account? Sign in now. Want one? 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From stephen at melbpc.org.au Sun Apr 11 14:17:04 2010 From: stephen at melbpc.org.au (stephen at melbpc.org.au) Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 12:17:04 GMT Subject: ::fibreculture:: Copyright is 300 years old today Message-ID: <20100411121704.9A16B85A@eagle.melbpc.org.au> Ken notes, http://www.counterpoint-online.org/copyright-1710-2010/ The first copyright law, "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning" was passed by the English Parliament on the 10th April, 1710. Encouragement of learning, eh? We could all sing "Happy Birthday" to copyright, except - oh, the song is covered by copyright and we'd have to pay royalties for a public performance http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/birthday.asp More: http://www.copyrighthistory.com/anne.html - shows original Statute of Anne document, presumably not subject to copyright :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne http://digital-law-online.info/patry/patry2.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/10/copyright-law-digital- economy-bill kp -- Cheers, Ken Stephen Loosley Victoria, Australia Message sent using MelbPC WebMail Server From geert at xs4all.nl Mon Apr 12 08:58:36 2010 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:58:36 +0200 Subject: ::fibreculture:: .au background of wikileaks References: <981F60A5-AC34-47D4-B76E-7B65802449CF@nedrossiter.org> Message-ID: > http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/international-man-of-mystery-20100409-ryvf.html From melinda at subtle.net Wed Apr 14 05:38:12 2010 From: melinda at subtle.net (Melinda Rackham) Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:08:12 +0930 Subject: ::fibreculture:: Fwd: This Saturday 'opening up the hood' - e-waste/electronics workshop References: <978AF5E6-5FA3-45BB-8350-7AE5F8CE7F94@subtle.net> Message-ID: <32B0C555-3EE0-48DD-9C9F-D5C2052B6965@subtle.net> hello all, Miss Despoinas Hackspace Hobart is for people interested the worlds of: Tech skills share | collaborative learning | craft knowledge | smart crafting | computer security | social engineering | fashion technology | hardware hacking | theory & philosophy and... racy - craft - tech - linux - hack - geek - lab - free software - electronic sculpture - homebrewed - computing & electronics - emergent design - haecksen - rogue internet despots - linux chix - GCA - vaudville - mesmerism. more info at http://sistero.org/mdhhh/ join at http://genderchangers.org/mailman/listinfo/mdhhh Next work shop info below... its worth a tiger flight to hobart :) cheerio Melinda Rackham melinda at subtle.net > > Miss Despoina?s Hackspace Hobart - http://sistero.org/mdhhh/ > presents our 2nd workshop 2010 - 17 April. > Saturday 10:00 - 16:00 @ Moonah Arts Centre 65 Hopkins St, Moonah > TAS 7009 > More info @ > http://www.sistero.org/mdhhh/index.php?/project/e-waste-hardware---opening-up-the-hood/ > > Most of us work with computers one way or another processing > programmes > and surfing the net, but how often does someone not familiar with > computers look inside the case and touch things? > > After we pull apart the old computer hardware and name it, what then? > > This workshop is about making accessories with old computer > electronics, > mobile phones, tape recorders, even kitchen appliances. > > Transform these old favourites into trinkets, wearables and all the > while > learn about computer or machine hardware. And learn basic soldering > techniques too! > > Hardware is a mystery, may seem difficult but is actually a lot of > fun. > While involved in hand-on demolition and reconstruction learn about > masters and slaves, the difference between memory and storage and the > components of your computer. > > Workshop involves: > Opening the guts (taking stuff apart naming it) > Fishing for components (choosing trinkets) > Making a wearable, (and even functioning), accessory > > > Things to bring: > > An object to dismantle (and re-incarnate) > > A piece of clothing to modify (optional) > > Tools eg drills, screwdrivers, pliers (some will be provided) > Want to know more? > > Want to be involved? > > http://sistero.org/mdhhh/ > > > > \ { _ } / > ,--.>_ .:Y:. _<,--. > `''' '--^--' `''' > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MDHHH mailing list > MDHHH at genderchangers.org > http://genderchangers.org/mailman/listinfo/mdhhh From stephen at melbpc.org.au Sun Apr 18 07:02:36 2010 From: stephen at melbpc.org.au (stephen at melbpc.org.au) Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 05:02:36 GMT Subject: ::fibreculture:: Community Group Assistance Message-ID: <20100418050236.BB44B7EF@eagle.melbpc.org.au> Hi all, If you have any connection with an Australian 'Community Group', then this group and website may be of considerable interest and assistance: https://www.ourcommunity.com.au Having no personal association with this group, as far as one can see, they are certainly well supported & connected with well-respected folk (eg, the ex Vic Chief Police Commisioner) and, do appear a responsible and very helpful resource for Aussie community groups indeed .. They write: (quote) Building Stronger Communities Through Stronger Community Organizations Our Community is a world-leading social enterprise that provides advice and tools for Australia's 600,000 community groups and schools, and practical linkages between the community sector and the general public, business and government." News: ? Power Up! This year's Communities in Control Conference looks set to be the best ever. See who's in the line-up and secure your spot at www.ourcommunity.com.au/cic2010. ? Australia's Best Training: Our Community's training is recognised as the most practical and best value training available to the Australian community sector. What's coming: www.ourcommunity.com.au/scheduledtraining ? Show Your Face: We are now taking bookings for display tables at this year's Communities in Control Conference, which will be held at Moonee Valley Racing Club in Moonee Ponds on May 31 & June 1, 2010. (link) ? Celebrating Loud-Mouthed Troublemakers: Nominate an individual, a community organisation or a project to receive a 2010 Westpac Kookaburra Award. These new awards honour the people, projects and community groups who spoke out so loudly and so well we couldn't ignore them. (link) ? Treasurers' Awards Now Closed: Winners of the 2010 Westpac Community Treasurers' Awards will be announced later this month. (link) ? Help Transform Giving in Australia: We're looking for volunteers to take part in the Giving Revolution being spearheaded by the GiveNow.com.au giving service, which is operated by the Our Community Foundation. We'd particularly love to hear from you if you have an interest in online communities and social networking, or administrative/database skills.If this interests you, please send your name, contact details and a few words about yourself to hannahs at ourcommunity.com.au. ? Newsletter schedule: View our newsletter schedule at www.ourcommunity.com.au/schedule. ? Free Financial Help Guide: Westpac and Our Community have just released the Guide for Community Board Members: Understanding Finances, the second in the community financial literacy series. Download your guide now or request a hard copy by clicking here. ? Get the Giving News: The April edition of GiveNow News includes tips on how to make the right choices when buying fashion, how to give to medical research, celebs gone good, and much more. Sign up to receive your copy here. ? Join In, Join Up! New posters to help you spread the Join In, Join Up! message are now available for download at www.ourcommunity.com.au/joinin. ? Get Grants: Listen to Our Community grantseeking specialist Patrick Moriarty delivering his tips on how to get a grant here. ? We're on Twitter! Sign up to follow Our Community on Twitter and you'll get all the news as it happens. Click here to get started. ? Find us on Facebook: Keep up with the latest news from Our Community by becoming a fan on Facebook. Click here to view our page. ? Community View: The latest edition of the Our Community Matters newsletter includes articles on: ? The links between health and equality ? How much you can say your volunteer labour is worth ? Links to new policies, help sheets, fact sheets & training opportunities ? Thoughts on the new National Compact ? Community Classifieds: Offers and Freebies ? How to use YouTube to spread your message ? The campaign for higher wages in the community sector - what it means and how you can help ? Ideas You Can Steal: Hitching a ride on the election bandwagon ? Our thoughts on the Welcome to Country debate ? New community law website and much more. Sign up as a member now (it's free!) at www.ourcommunity.com.au/signup, or download this month's edition of Our Community Matters at www.ourcommunity.com.au/ocmatters -- Cheers people Stephen Loosley Registered Teacher From stephen at melbpc.org.au Wed Apr 21 06:14:52 2010 From: stephen at melbpc.org.au (stephen at melbpc.org.au) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:14:52 GMT Subject: ::fibreculture:: OECD releases a new report .. Message-ID: <20100421041452.8CD7576B@eagle.melbpc.org.au> Fwd: OECD releases a new report on technology use and educational performance in PISA Dear all, The OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation, in cooperation with the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry and with the support of the Norwegian Ministry of Education, has just released a new report on technology use and educational performance using PISA data. The report "Are the New Millennium Learners Making the Grade?" analyses to what extent investments in technology enhance educational outcomes. One of the most striking findings of this study is that the digital divide in education goes beyond the issue of access to technology. A new second form of digital divide has been identified: the one existing between those who have the right competencies to benefit from computer use, and those who do not. These competencies and skills are closely linked to the economic, cultural and social capital of the student. This finding has important implications for policy and practice. Governments should make an effort to clearly convey the message that computer use matters for the education of young people and do their best to engage teachers and schools in raising the frequency of computer use to a level that becomes relevant. If schools and teachers are really committed to the development of 21st century competencies, such an increase will happen naturally. And only in these circumstances will clear correlations between technology use and educational performance emerge. Browse it at: As we have now started the preparations for a new edition using PISA 2009 data, your comments and suggestions for improvements will be extremely welcome. Thanks, Francesc Pedr? OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation -- Cheers Tony Stephen Loosley Registered Teacher From stephen at melbpc.org.au Thu Apr 22 16:23:35 2010 From: stephen at melbpc.org.au (stephen at melbpc.org.au) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:23:35 GMT Subject: ::fibreculture:: ICT Proficiency Standards Message-ID: <20100422142335.B3F6C6F4@eagle.melbpc.org.au> Hi all, 'Nationally, 57 per cent of Year 6 students, and, 66 percent of Year 10 students reach or exceed a ?challenging but reasonable? ICT proficiency standard..' www.mceecdya.edu.au/mceecdya/nap_ictl_2008_report_press_release,31023.html 22 April 2010: National Year 6 and Year 10 Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Literacy Results The Hon. Julia Gillard, MP, Deputy Prime Minister and Commonwealth Minister for Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, today released the 2008 National ICT Literacy Sample Assessment results for Year 6 and Year 10 students on behalf of the Ministerial Council for Education, Early Childhood Development and Youth Affairs. (MCEECDYA) This report is the second to be published on ICT Literacy in the cycle of three-yearly sample assessments conducted by MCEECDYA as part of its National Assessment Program (NAP). The assessment measured students? ability to access, manage, integrate and evaluate information, develop new understandings, and communicate with others in order to participate effectively in society. The assessment was conducted in October 2008, with 5,604 Year 6 students from 299 schools & 5,322 Year 10 students from 292 schools participating. The participating students were from both government and non-government schools. Results of the assessment show that nationally 57 per cent of Year 6 students reached or exceeded the Year 6 proficient standard and 66 percent of Year 10 students reached or exceeded the Year 10 proficient standard. This represents improvement on the 2005 assessment results of 8 per cent for Year 6 students and 5 per cent for Year 10 students. The proficient standard represents a ?challenging but reasonable? expectation for typical Year 6 and 10 students to have reached by the end of each of those years of study. The report also found that a student?s socioeconomic background had the biggest effect on their performance, with 41 per cent of Year 6 students whose parents are from the ?unskilled manual, office and sales? occupational groups attaining the proficient standard, compared to 72 per cent of students whose parents are from the ?senior managers and professionals? occupational group. In Year 10 the corresponding figures are 52 per cent and 78 per cent. Significant differences in performance were also found to be associated with Indigenous status and remote geographic locations. The gap in ICT literacy achievement between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students is greater in 2008 than it was in 2005, with Indigenous students achieving the proficient standard at less than half the rate of non-Indigenous students. Metropolitan students tended to record higher ICT literacy scores than students in provincial areas, who in turn recorded higher scores than those in remote areas. The next ICT Literacy assessment will be conducted in 2011. The results of that cycle will allow trends to be identified based on three comparable datasets. The information derived from these national assessments enables us to better understand and improve our children?s skills and knowledge. To download the report, click here: The NAP ICT Literacy 2008 School Assessment Exemplars are also available, to download click here: -- Cheers Roland Stephen Loosley Registered Teacher From grayson.cooke at scu.edu.au Wed Apr 28 13:48:33 2010 From: grayson.cooke at scu.edu.au (Grayson Cooke) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:48:33 +1000 Subject: ::fibreculture:: CFP: Transformations Journal: Slow Media In-Reply-To: References: <981F60A5-AC34-47D4-B76E-7B65802449CF@nedrossiter.org> Message-ID: <4BD82091.7070709@scu.edu.au> Hi folks, please see below, a CFP for an issue of the Transformations Journal on "Slow Media." Feel free to circulate this elsewhere if you have colleagues or students who might be interested. ***** *Transformations Journal Call for Papers: ?Slow Media?* Given the contemporary fascination with and, indeed, addiction to real-time media dispatch and commentary, what would it mean to speak of ?slow media?? Dare we even think such a thing when everything around us screams of increased speed, increased bandwidth, and increased convergence? We are 24-7, we are always-on, we are connected; we are locatable, we are X/Y coordinated, we are plotted; we are status updated, we are tweet-fed, we are real-time media junkies and we don?t have time to slow down. ?Slow media? is surely inimical to the age of social media and 24-hour news channels, where we live immersed in a mediascape dedicated to reducing to nothing the temporal division between the occurrence of an ?event? and its reportage. In such a scenario, ?slow media? appears either heretical or retrogressive, a wanton disregarding of the patent necessity of instant information dissemination and rampant friending, or just another Luddite reaction-formation. Indeed, ?slow media? as a term has already been spun-off from the ?slow? movement more generally, and is used to describe the reduced media diet of people turning off the email, closing the facebook, and going outside for a sniff of the flowers. But while ?slow media? as a term may appear primarily to describe a mode of resistance, it also allows us to think about the speed of the media as such. Have our popular media always been increasing in speed? What is the end point of all of this, the apotheosis of real-time: are we, as Bernard Stiegler suggests, approaching the ?time barrier?? And, what happens when we break it? For this issue of Transformations, we invite papers that meditate on the speeds and slownesses of the contemporary moment. Papers could address, but would need not be limited to, any of the following themes: - real-time and the news media - social media and the status update - new media explorations of speed and slowness - artistic responses to speed and time - social media suicide: suicidemachine.org and seppukoo - the ?slow? movement and resistance - histories of speed in the media - tweet-streams and data-feeds - bandwidth, access and connectivity Abstracts (500 words): due 1^st July 2010, with a view to submit articles by 1st October. Abstracts should be sent to Grayson Cooke at grayson.cooke at scu.edu.au . View Transformations online: http://www.transformationsjournal.org. ***** -- Dr Grayson Cooke Course Coordinator BMedia School of Arts and Social Sciences Southern Cross University Military Road East Lismore NSW 2480 Ph: +61 2 6620 3839 E: grayson.cooke at scu.edu.au From stephen at melbpc.org.au Wed Apr 28 15:15:16 2010 From: stephen at melbpc.org.au (stephen at melbpc.org.au) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:15:16 GMT Subject: ::fibreculture:: Podcasts Message-ID: <20100428131516.C1A3A867@eagle.melbpc.org.au> Hi all, For those of us who enjoy podcasts, maybe gpodder is of interest. Their Podcasts are free, usually weekly, usually more than an hour long & free and quick registration with gpodder is required to access these podcasts. 100 Toplist: http://www.gpodder.net/toplist These are the 100 most subscribed podcasts for the English language: Podcast Number of Subscribers 1 Linux Outlaws 1144 2 FLOSS Weekly 971 3 this WEEK in TECH - MP3 Edition 776 4 Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo team 507 5 Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4 500 6 Security Now! 493 7 This American Life 466 8 Going Linux ( MP3 Ogg ) 436 9 The Linux Link Tech Show ( iTunes-Feed MP3 Ogg ) 435 10 This Week In Google 430 11 TuxRadar Linux Podcast ( Ogg MP3 ) 418 12 Documentaries 405 13 NPR: Science Friday Podcast 405 14 Engadget 357 15 Hacker Public Radio 354 16 The Linux Action Show! MP3 336 17 The Naked Science Radio Show PODCAST 333 18 TEDTalks (video) 332 19 Windows Weekly 323 20 NPR: Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Podcast 306 21 Science in Action 304 22 The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe 299 23 Buzz Out Loud (MP3) 294 24 NPR: Car Talk Podcast 281 25 Leo Laporte - The Tech Guy 280 26 Dan Carlin's Hardcore History 262 27 In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg 249 28 Digital Planet 217 29 net at night 204 30 NPR: Planet Money Podcast 198 31 bsdtalk 194 32 tech5 193 33 Linux Basement ( Ogg MP3 ) 186 34 Software Freedom Law Center 182 35 WNYC's Radiolab 170 36 Material World 163 37 MacBreak Weekly 162 38 The Bad Apples Linux Cast 154 39 Hacker Medley 152 40 ProductiveLinux ? MP3 149 41 From Our Own Correspondent 147 42 Global News 140 43 Skeptoid: Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena 105 44 The Linux Action Show! OGG 98 45 NPR: Fresh Air Podcast 97 46 RatholeRadio.org ( Ogg MP3 ) 95 47 PaulDotCom Security Weekly 93 48 Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo's Film Reviews 89 49 English as a Second Language Podcast 87 50 Cranky Geeks MP3 Audio 85 51 No Agenda 84 52 Stuff You Should Know 82 53 The Moth Podcast 81 54 The Fresh Ubuntu Podcast 78 55 Thinking Allowed 77 56 The Java Posse 75 57 The lottalinuxlinks linux podcast 73 58 Common Sense with Dan Carlin 72 59 6 Minute English 71 60 Discovery 70 61 Talk About English (Learn English) 69 62 python411 69 63 Rocketboom 68 64 Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing 68 65 mintCast 67 66 This Week in Computer Hardware 64 67 NewsPod 63 68 NPR: Technology Podcast 60 69 IT Conversations 57 70 mintCast 55 71 Software Freedom Law Center 54 72 Hacker Public Radio 54 73 The Skeptics' Guide 5X5 54 74 Cranky Geeks MP3 Audio 54 75 Common Sense with Dan Carlin 54 76 More or Less: Behind the Stats 53 77 Quirks & Quarks Complete Show from CBC Radio 53 78 NPR: All Songs Considered Podcast 52 79 Astronomy Cast 51 80 Point of Inquiry 51 81 Daily Giz Wiz 51 82 Science Magazine Podcast 50 83 gdgt weekly 48 84 APM: A Prairie Home Companion's News from Lake Wobegon 48 85 Shot of Jaq 48 86 Scientific American Podcast 47 87 Skepticality:The Official Podcast of Skeptic Magazine 47 88 Пираты-РТ 47 89 Hacker Medley 46 90 Peter Day's World of Business 45 91 SourceTrunk 45 92 All About Symbian Podcast 44 93 Grammar Challenge (Learn English) 43 94 Analysis 43 95 APM: Marketplace 43 96 Dr. Kiki's Science Hour 43 97 1UP.com - 4 Guys 1UP 42 98 Radio 4 Choice 42 99 Cranky Geeks MP3 Audio 42 100 Futures in Biotech Podcast Directory: http://www.gpodder.net/directory/ Technology FLOSS Weekly Security Now! This Week In Google Hacker Public Radio The Linux Action Show! MP3 The Naked Science Radio Show PODCAST - Stripping Down Science TEDTalks (video) Windows Weekly Science in Action Buzz Out Loud (MP3) more... Society & Culture Dan Carlin's Hardcore History In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg NPR: Planet Money Podcast WNYC's Radiolab NPR: Fresh Air Podcast Stuff You Should Know Thinking Allowed Point of Inquiry Skepticality:The Official Podcast of Skeptic Magazine Analysis more... Arts TEDTalks (video) The Moth Podcast Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing APM: A Prairie Home Companion's News from Lake Wobegon ARD Radio Tatort Cory Doctorow's craphound.com ? Podcast Escape Pod Meet the GIMP Scott Sigler Audiobooks This American Life more... News & Politics Documentaries Buzz Out Loud (MP3) NPR: Planet Money Podcast From Our Own Correspondent Global News Thinking Allowed Common Sense with Dan Carlin Rocketboom NewsPod Common Sense with Dan Carlin more... Education The Naked Science Radio Show PODCAST - Stripping Down Science TEDTalks (video) WNYC's Radiolab English as a Second Language Podcast 6 Minute English Talk About English (Learn English) python411 Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing More or Less: Behind the Stats Science Magazine Podcast more... Music FM4 Soundpark NPR: All Songs Considered Podcast Geologic Podcast Adam Curry's Daily Source Code Radio 538: Ti?sto`s club life podcast Jupiter Broadcasting ? CastaBlasta NPR: Live Concerts from All Songs Considered Podcast Hospital Records Podcast triple j: Sunday Night Safran Tom Robinson Introducing... more... Comedy Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4 The Moth Podcast Rocketboom France Inter - L'humeur de St?phane Guillon APM: A Prairie Home Companion's News from Lake Wobegon Shot of Jaq Shot of Jaq The Bugle (mp3) - Audio Newspaper For A Visual World Adam and Joe France Inter - L'humeur de Didier Porte more... podcast tech5 English as a Second Language Podcast Cranky Geeks MP3 Audio The Fresh Ubuntu Podcast Rocketboom Cranky Geeks MP3 Audio Cranky Geeks MP3 Audio ARD Radio Tatort Naked Astronomy - From the Naked Scientists The Fresh Ubuntu Podcast more... news Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4 Documentaries The Linux Action Show! MP3 Science in Action Digital Planet tech5 From Our Own Correspondent Global News The Linux Action Show! OGG Thinking Allowed more... radio NPR: Science Friday Podcast NPR: Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Podcast Leo Laporte - The Tech Guy In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg NPR: Planet Money Podcast WNYC's Radiolab NPR: Fresh Air Podcast Chaosradio Радио-Т NPR: Technology Podcast more... -- Cheers, Stephen From geert at xs4all.nl Thu Apr 29 08:22:06 2010 From: geert at xs4all.nl (Geert Lovink) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 08:22:06 +0200 Subject: ::fibreculture:: update on the list Message-ID: <8CC066B6-7751-4C0C-9DFC-06DDCC6E54ED@xs4all.nl> Dear all, wellcome (back) to the Fibreculture list. Over the past weeks we've grown to nearly 150 subscribers. That's a good amount to start a decent conversation. For sure more will join over time. If you want to invite friends, students and others, please use the text below. Remember, Fibreculture is not a strictly academics-only list. The idea was, and still is, to bridge the gaps between artists, activists, programmers and researchers and define together what critical issues in 'new media' are in the Australian context. The Fibreculture initiative currently runs the journal and a Ning network. The whole domain of 'digital publishing' is on the move and many of us are looking for new platforms to distribute our work. I am certain that this will be one of many common themes that we can discuss and act upon. Best, Geert -- Restart of the Fibreculture Mailinglist Please join the list and subscribe now! To register, please visit: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/fibreculture_listcultures.org After a period of technical difficulties and uncertainty about its destiny, the Fibreculture (email) list has been revitalized. Founded by David Teh and Geert Lovink the list started in January 2001. The aim of the Fibreculture initiative is to be a platform for critical, interdisciplinary new media research in Australia. The list soon spun off a range of activities, from real-life meetings, a website, publications, and, most significantly, the Fibreculture Journal, which launched in 2003. Recent developments such as Conroy?s censorship plans, the new media stagnation in education, broadband politics and Google?s position in all this has prompted us to restart the list. The Fibreculture initiative organized a one day seminar on the censorship plan at the University of Sydney on December 16, 2009. The Fibreculture Journal is thriving and there are plans to move into digital publishing. For the time being there will not be a seperate announcement list but if traffic will be high, and the desire is there to seperate dialogue from announcements, this can easily be set up. Wellcome back, Fibreculture list! The Fibreculture Editorial Team (Everyone and No One) www.fibreculture.org