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Blogging versus reporting
Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi (right) introduces Pope Benedict XVI to journalists during a news conference aboard the Pope's plane prior to landing in Darwin July 2008. Photo: AFP Two...
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The problem with iPad news apps
A turtle took a video camera for a swim and ended up on YouTube I have been loving my iPad. Many of its features make reading the web a much more intimate, easy and pleasurable experience. However none...
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Make convergence part of all your editorial workflows
BAM premiers new film on Alexander Shuglin…The “father of ecstasy” is still a serious scientist hard at work in his home lab despite failing health. Making the transition from print or simple broadcast...
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Taking radio journalism online in a multimedia world
Let me just say at the outset that I think the ABC’s response to the new digital media environment has been innovative and outstanding. Not only is their website full of fascinating content from their...
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The website is being redesigned and posts from my old blog will be imported soon.
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Apocalypse 2013
Jaden Smith stars in M. Night Shyamalan’s After Earth…1000 years after the cataclysm The last few years have begun with predictions of the Apocalypse hanging over us. 2011 was supposed to bring the...
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Celebrities should come out
Lana Wakowski’s HRC speech negotiates the ethics of publicness much more adroitly than Jodie Foster’s Golden Globes speech A lot has been written over the last few days about Jodie Foster’s Golden...
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Why America is still in the grip of torture
Jessica Chastain play’s Zero Dark Thirty’s obsessive CIA hero. Last week the LA premier of Kathryn Bigelow’s film about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden was picketed by hood wearing activists protesting...
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Why you can’t expect any real change from the new pope
Towards the end of the pontificate of John Paul II a genial Melbourne priest said to me: “You just wait until the Pole falls off his perch – the Holy Spirit will rush through the church.” He sincerely...
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Apocalyptic Signs: how we improvise the search for meaning in disaster
During the last week, daily news of the Boston Marathon bombings and its aftermath has generated fear and a frenzy of analysis. Even though the scale and context is very different immediate references...
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David Wojnarowicz’s lips
‘Untitled (Face in Dirt) 1990-1993’ | David Wojnarowicz 1. The Song of Solomon, the bible’s surprisingly erotic master poem, begins with a kiss. ‘Let him kiss me with the kisses of his lips …’ This...
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Intimacy and technologies: a pre-history
There have always been technologies of intimacy, they are not the product of our internet age. We think, we learn, we love with people but often through things. The gift, the love letter, the dowry....
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The shape of things
‘My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing’ 2023, Mokulito and ink on Somerset Satin, unique state, series of two, 76 x 112 cm The following is an artist statment from my...
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A strange appearance
What does it mean to call something strange? Or as ecological philosopher Timothy Morton (2016) frames it: how can anything not seem strange in a world that has been fundamentally altered at its core...
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