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As readers of my main blog will know , I spent Friday at the Australian Blogging Conference at QUT's Creative Industries Precinct in Brisbane. It was a fabulous, stimulating and intellectually rich conference and a great end to Tama's-month-o-conferencing
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Warning: Segue into politics and digital communication... What is Facebook? Should you care? Does the fact that John Howard and Kevin Rudd (or their team) have Facebook pages mean anything about Australian politics in a digital era? If any of these questions
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As part of Teaching Month (which, to be honest, is "Teaching 17 Days" but that just sounded naff on flyers and banners), the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences is running a group blog in which a number of academics, professional staff and
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Back in February, MyResearchSpace's admins mentioned that it is possible to use Word 2007 as the writer and editor for your blog posts. However, many of us won't be using Word 2007 in a hurry -- for whatever reason -- so I wanted to quickly mention another
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In exploring the role of participatory media forms in higher eduction, media scholar Henry Jenkins recently penned an article entitled " From YouTube to YouNiversity " for the Chronicle of Higher Education . It's a great read, but this passage particularly
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This YouTube clip does a pretty good job of explaining it ... [Via Jill ]
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The special themed issue of Reconstruction which focuses on blogging is out! Here's the announcement: Reconstruction is proud to announce the publication of its Vol. 6, No. 4 (2006) themed issue, " Theories/Practices of Blogging ," which can be found
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In two recent articles, one in The Guardian and one from the BBC , it appeared that Tim Berners-Lee , the scientist who invented the internet as we know it today, had decided blogs were part of the problem, not the solution. From The Guardian , for example:
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I was recently asked to write a blog post about " Why I Blog " for the journal Reconstruction . I originally posted this to my personal blog ( Ponderance ), but thought it might be of interest to those just entering the blogosphere ... Beginning and Motivations
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In today's Age , an fairly decent article, ' Adventures in blog land ', looks at the emerging importance of blogging in academia both in building research profiles and allowing academic voices to be heard outside of the ivory towers of the university.
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Here are some suggestions of blogs to illustrate how postgrads and academics are using blogging. Feedback is welcome ... A few good postgraduate and early career academic blogs: Thoughts from Kansas / Joshua Rosenau, USA "A graduate student in Ecology
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