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Right, so now the holiday has ended. It is the first week of school as we speak.
It has been a rather hard to describe winter break. There’s, of course, the events that made it more interesting such as the A-W-E-S-O-M-E trip to the Grampians with the Labsome kids and staff members (Brrrr, the pinnacle & [...]
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Requiem for an iPod
It’s finally happened. After years of ill-treatment and being tossed around, I think R I S K is finally giving up. Not much else to be said but there were sweet, good memories of it, and with it; and I think it’s about time really. I don’t intend to get it repaired and I think [...]
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OUT!
Will be at the Grampians from thursday (21st) onwards. Won’t be back till sunday.
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At long last!
After weeks and weeks of slogging over the design of the Transient Spaces documentary website, I declare it OPEN!
Click here to see it.
It has been a tedious task for me: emailing and calling potential interviewees, working on the design and layout of the website, trying to understand the notion of community and the actual [...]
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An article I picked up from the library’s e-database has that title on and I think it takes two very interesting concepts to explain and reflect upon the notions of communities on the Internet now.
Too often we’ve been reading off Anderson’s Imagined Communities or Rheingold’s Virtual Community but sometimes you ought to take a more [...]
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The truth about communities
There’s this certain thing about communities. Maybe it’s because of work.
I am currently working on my Communication Revolutions essay, in which I will be examining and describing the Internet, with a special focus on the use of social softwares and community sites such as Friendster, MySpace, Face Book etc.. I got drawn into the thought [...]
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Who will own the news? Journalists, the new dinosaurs? « The rolling people
megalodreamer has written a very interesting article about the impact of blogs on the profession of journalism as well as the spreading of the commoner’s word that is easily attainable now with the use of the Internet.
His entry brings forth certain issues that [...]
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Haven’t you ever wondered about how tough it is to churn out 1,000 words sometimes?
That’s the case with the monster that I’m dealing with now. There is a certain struggle hitting the 3,000 wordcount although I am only writing the last 1,000 word. Theoretically speaking, it shouldn’t be this hard. I wrote the last 2 [...]
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hmmm, film critics.
putting in a late entry just before the 2,000 worder is supposed to surface.
I have spent some time pondering the role of a film critic. I think it goes far beyond just putting up words on a public media (newspapers, magazines, websites, whatever) about a particular film. By watching a film first hand (and I [...]
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Update: 27042007
Stuffs to get done this week:
the 1,000 word on top of past week’s 1,000.
Comm Rev readings.
Refine abstract again.
Define research direction.
Set up fourpointfive mailing list.
Comm Rev final essay – figuring out of my topic, and think hard about it. possibly come up with a skeleton.
Shoot the Transient spaces documentary.
- with tasks getting gradually more defined and [...]
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