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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.  I was the facilitator for the 'Blogging and Education' session so thought, in ...

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 have perked your interest, click here.  (At the very least you ...

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 at least one student are exploring the place of blogs and blogging in higher education.  ...

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 tool that I've been using as my blog editor; it's called Windows Live Writer.  As ...

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 caught my attention: Blogs represent a powerful tool for engaging in these larger public ...

This YouTube clip does a pretty good job of explaining it ... [Via Jill]

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 at http://reconstruction.eserver.org. Featured in the issue: * Michael Benton (aka Thivai ...

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: Sir Tim believes devotees of blogging sites take too much information on trust: ''The ...

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 As someone whose doctoral thesis examined many aspects of digital media, you ...