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Intelligence Squared Debates: Copyright Is Dead, Long Live The Pirates Event · Tue, 24 Sep 2013

The digital revolution is counter-intuitive to copyright. Technological change is moving too fast for adequate laws to be implemented – and for affected industries to keep pace.The bottom is…

 

Beautiful Books: Rare Book Week Launch Event · Thu, 18 Jul 2013

In the midst of the e-revolution, where we’re as likely to download as to leaf through a book, the idea of the book as an object of beauty is being lost. Or is it?To celebrate the launch of Rare…

 

Lunchbox / Soapbox: Jon Rose on The Music of Place: Reclaiming a Practice Event · Thu, 18 Jul 2013

How do you maintain live music in a culture that does not value it? Jon Rose, acclaimed improvising violinist and instrument-maker, examines Australia’s history of improvised music and musicians and …

 

The Fifth Estate: Incredible India Event · Tue, 16 Apr 2013

India is booming: everyone says so. The economy is growing to match its massive population, and new industries like IT are creating a thriving middle class. Yet millions of Indians, especially…

 

Comedy Festival: Web Comedy: The New Joke? Event · Sat, 13 Apr 2013

Presented by the Melbourne International Comedy FestivalWebsites, blogs, social media, YouTube, iTunes, live streaming and podcasts…The worldwide web has put a worldwide audience directly into the…

 

Secrets, Lies and Digital Privacy: Liberty Victoria Event · Thu, 14 Mar 2013

Privacy in the digital age is a hot-button issue, from WikiLeaks to who owns your Facebook photos. With Liberty Victoria, we present a hypothetical discussion encompassing the church, child abuse…

 

Friday High Five: Technology fails, B... Dailies · Fri, 30 Nov 2012

We share five of our favourite links and articles from around the internet this week.Why your passwords don’t protect youWired senior writer Mat Horan was famously targeted by cyberhackers earlier…

 

Making the News Event · Wed, 28 Nov 2012

The ‘I’ word was once taboo in journalism – but these days, the ‘I’s seem to well and truly have it. The online age has heralded the rise of the celebrity journalist: ‘personalities’ with…

 

Making the News Video · Wed, 28 Nov 2012

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The online age has heralded the rise of the celebrity journalist: ‘personalities’ with headshots, Twitter accounts and guest spots on Q&A. How does this impact on the quality of our journalism? What …

 

Experimenta: Wired-up World Event · Thu, 15 Nov 2012

In today’s wired-up world, we can be with anyone, anywhere at any time. We have hundreds of ‘friends’, habitually ‘follow’ strangers and work from virtual offices. What does all this mean for…

 

Experimenta: Wired Up World Video · Thu, 15 Nov 2012

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In today’s wired-up world, we can be with anyone, anywhere at any time. We have hundreds of ‘friends’, habitually ‘follow’ strangers and work from virtual offices. What does all this mean for…

 

Lunchbox/Soapbox: Tim Coronel: What Next for the Australian Publishing Industry? Video · Thu, 08 Nov 2012

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Five years ago, the tone of discussion about the book industry shifted from ‘confidence’ to ‘crisis’, as online shopping and the emergence of e-books shook up the established ways of doing business.I…

 

Ishiguro's Robots Event · Fri, 14 Sep 2012

Hiroshi Ishiguro is one of the top 100 geniuses alive in the world today – and the creator of some of the most life-like robots ever made.Ishiguro’s shockingly human androids (including his own…

 

Ishiguro's Robots Video · Fri, 14 Sep 2012

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Hiroshi Ishiguro is one of the top 100 geniuses alive in the world today – and the creator of some of the most life-like robots ever made. Ishiguro’s shockingly human androids (including his own…

 

I, Robots: Androids so Real, They're ... Dailies · Mon, 20 Aug 2012

Robots that look like people, programmed to have their own emotions and facial expressions and to react to human interaction?It sounds like science fiction, but within the past decade, it’s also…

 

The Fifth Estate: Magazines, Misogyny and Manners: Ita Buttrose Event · Tue, 07 Aug 2012

The Fifth Estate is the Wheeler Centre’s new series of fortnightly forums: a more measured approach to news and current affairs. Provocative and studied, authoritative and unhurried, this is real…

 

The Fifth Estate: Media Meltdown Video · Tue, 10 Jul 2012

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What is the future for media in Australia? How can newspapers adapt and survive in the digital age? And what is the role of the national broadcaster in a rapidly changing media landscape? As Gina…

 

Lunchbox/Soapbox: Anita Sethi on the Human Experience in the Digital Age: Conversation, Relationships and Social Connection Video · Thu, 31 May 2012

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‘Only connect,’ said E M Forster. Could Mr Forster have envisaged a world in which one person connected with another, thousands of miles away, through free video and voice calls, instant messages…

 

Lunchbox / Soapbox: The Human Experience in the Digital Age: Conversation, Relationships and Social Connection Event · Thu, 31 May 2012

“Only Connect” said E M Forster. Could Mr Forster have envisaged a world in which one person connected with another, thousands of miles away, through free video and voice calls, instant messages…

 

Thank You for Phoning: Mobile Phones ... Dailies · Wed, 09 May 2012

Too close for comfort? Apple’s iPhone 3G. If you’re reading this article on a smartphone, check that you’re holding it at least 15mm away from your body. That’s the…

 

Here's Looking at You, Emma Bovary Dailies · Mon, 13 Feb 2012

We began our Monday morning at the Wheeler Centre with a bit of a giggle, after stumbling on a very funny website that brings literary characters to (startlingly) real life.The creator of The…

 

A Black Day for Free Speech Dailies · Thu, 19 Jan 2012

Today, lazy music writers and smartphone-toting trivia cheats can commiserate over a common problem: Wikipedia has blackened the English-language version of its encyclopaedia for 24 hours.The action …

 

The Summer of Hate Dailies · Tue, 17 Jan 2012

Earlier this week, anti-porn activist Melinda Tankard Reist sought legal advice from a defamation lawyer after a blogger labelled her a “fundamentalist Christian”, The Sydney Morning Herald reports. …

 

The New Year: Emerging Writers Festival Dailies · Thu, 22 Dec 2011

As 2011 ends and 2012 begins, we’ve invited our resident organisations to consider the year gone by and to share their plans for the year to come.In 2011 the Emerging Writers' Festival enjoyed our…

 

Best of 2011: Publishing and Technology Dailies · Thu, 22 Dec 2011

While citizens took to the streets to protest around the world, there were other upheavals in 2011: not least in the world of publishing. As digital publishing consolidated its grip on the…

 

The New Year: Australian Poetry Dailies · Thu, 22 Dec 2011

As 2011 ends and 2012 begins, we’ve invited our resident organisations to consider the year gone by and to share their plans for the year to come.Australian Poetry has had an exciting inaugural…

 

Dymocks Opens the Floodgates Dailies · Tue, 13 Dec 2011

A leading Australian book retailer is getting into the publishing business with the launch of an online self-publishing service. Dymocks is the first major Australian book retailer to have entered…

 

On Rhyme & Reason Dailies · Wed, 07 Dec 2011

The literary world has always been riddled with controversy. There’s a couple of controversies doing the rounds that we found of interest for what they say about about a new anthology of American…

 

History's Quantum Dimension Dailies · Tue, 22 Nov 2011

It’s the 48th anniversary of the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy in 1963. The New York Times has published a short film by noted documentarian Errol Morris called The Umbrella Man, in w…

 

Lunchbox/Soapbox: Nina Funnell on the Teen Sexting Panic Video · Thu, 17 Nov 2011

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Through century upon century, societies have located much of their moral panic and hysteria around a victimised view of youth. Whether it’s generational or technological change, the shock of the new …

 

Writing Unbound Dailies · Wed, 16 Nov 2011

A new UK publishing venture is bringing crowdfunding to the book world. Unbound lets authors pitch their novels-in-progress to readers, who then decide whether or not they want to contribute to the f…

 

Neo-Institutional Hub & Spoke Journalism Dailies · Tue, 15 Nov 2011

A Columbia Journalism Review feature called ‘Confidence Game’ has taken up the case for newspapers. Dean Starkman argues that a group of intellectuals he calls the ‘Future of News’ group, or “FON…

 

Meanland: Literature, Genre and the Digital Age Event · Mon, 14 Nov 2011

In the online world, science fiction and fantasy, thrillers and romance rule supreme. Much-maligned genre fiction is seemingly better placed to survive in the new world order than prestigious…

 

Meanland: Literature, Genre and the Digital Age Video · Mon, 14 Nov 2011

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In the online world, science fiction and fantasy, thrillers and romance rule supreme. Much-maligned genre fiction is seemingly better placed to survive in the new world order than prestigious…

 

Self-Help Original Gets a Makeover Dailies · Wed, 12 Oct 2011

Its title is now a stock-standard phrase of the English language. It’s sold some 30 million copies since it was first published some 75 years ago. It single-handedly invented a new kind of book, one …

 

Man Macmillan Signs Up First Title fo... Dailies · Thu, 22 Sep 2011

An Australian writer is seeking to become a pioneer of digital publishing with a venture that’s making the most of new publishing technologies. Nathan Farrugia has an ambitious project in mind – in f…

 

News That's Newer Than New Dailies · Thu, 25 Aug 2011

A two-day conference being held tomorrow and Saturday as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival is taking a look at the impact of digital technologies and culture on the business and practice of…

 

Oxford Dictionary Finally Gets Into S... Dailies · Tue, 23 Aug 2011

The 12th edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary has been hauled into the 20th century, with a number of first-time additions to the dictionary reflecting the rise and rise of online…

 

Future Directions for the Book Dailies · Thu, 18 Aug 2011

Pioneering publications are giving us a glimpse of what the book of the future might look like – and that future can best be summarised as augmentation.1. The Hybrid BookIn the US, the New York…

 

The Great App Con Dailies · Fri, 12 Aug 2011

The first tablet was the iPad, right? Wrong. Developed in 1968, the first tablet was the Dynabook, and in some ways it was superior to the iPad. This is an excerpt from a piece by John Weldon on…

 

RMIT Publishing Launches Lit & Cultur... Dailies · Fri, 12 Aug 2011

This blog excerpt is a cross-post of a piece by writer and RMIT Publishing marketing assistant Amy Han on the Informit Literature and Culture collection. The full blog can be read at the SPUNC…

 

Wikipedia Needs You (If You're a Woman) Dailies · Tue, 09 Aug 2011

The annual Wikipedia conference has just been completed in Haifa, Israel. Wikimania 2011 was marked by a plea from Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales for more women to become editors of the site. The

 

How Social Media is Changing Journalism Dailies · Mon, 18 Jul 2011

Social media is an essential of the journalist’s new toolkit, argued Julie Posetti in a Lunchbox/Soapbox presentation she recently delivered, which we’ve uploaded to watch and hear today. In an…

 

Memory in the Digital Age Dailies · Thu, 14 Jul 2011

For as long as we can collectively remember, humans have struggled with the problem of memory. Its unreliability was compounded by the dishonesty and disingenuousness of the mind, in both its…

 

Meanland: The Blogging Economy Event · Tue, 12 Jul 2011

The web, we are endlessly told, offers unparalleled opportunity for a democratic voice. But is the voice of the people necessarily offered for free? Why is it so hard to earn a buck through a blog?In…

 

New Pathways for Ebook Authors Dailies · Wed, 29 Jun 2011

While we’ve covered the epublishing revolution many times, it feels ironic that Australia’s tyranny of distance nowadays seems to apply mainly to technologies that are designed to make the world…

 

For Everything Else There's MasterCar... Dailies · Tue, 28 Jun 2011

This is an extract of a forthcoming essay by Gillian Terzis to be published in issue six of Kill Your Darlings, available in July.Recently Anonymous, a decentralised collective of hackers and…

 

Welcome to Otaku Country Dailies · Tue, 28 Jun 2011

The LulzSec Twitter avatar They’ve been described as “a loose, decentralised group of like-minded computer users, who are almost impossible to track down”, a vigilante…

 

'Gay Girl in Damascus' Had a Previous... Dailies · Mon, 27 Jun 2011

An image posted on the Facebook page ‘Free Amina Abdalla’ In his 2010 book Reality Hunger, US writer David Shields argued against traditional realist fiction in favour of a…

 

The Art of the Typewriter Dailies · Mon, 20 Jun 2011

Image of vintage Smith-Premier typewriter via WikiCommons Typewriter art has been around since at least 1867, with the oldest surviving example dating back to 1898…

 

News of the Death of the Newspaper Gr... Dailies · Fri, 17 Jun 2011

(Click to watch video.) In his recent Lunchbox/Soapbox address, Bruce Guthrie, former editor of The Sunday Age, The Age, Who Weekly, the Weekend Australian…

 

Federal Minister Questions Viability ... Dailies · Tue, 14 Jun 2011

Federal Minister for Small Business Nick Sherry predicted this morning that online shopping will wipe out bookstores within the next five years. Senator Sherry made the comments at the launch of a…

 

Mandy Brett on Why the World Needs Editors Even if it Doesn't Need Books Video · Thu, 19 May 2011

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In this video, Mandy Brett takes to Lunchbox/Soapbox to consider the future for those whom we notice least when they’re most effective: editors.Holding a Kindle, an iPad and a smartphone, Brett…

 

Dave Graney: Social Networks and the Unknown Video · Thu, 28 Apr 2011

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If the internet was cut off tomorrow, would you be happy? Dave Graney would be.Appearing onstage at Lunchbox/Soapbox, and in his characteristically meandering style, the flamboyant stalwart of…

 

A Writerly Type of Revival Dailies · Wed, 06 Apr 2011

Image of Smith-Premier typewriter via WikiCommons There’s a revival going on – our favourite type of revival, the type that appeals to old-fashioned types like us. Just as …

 

Witness to a New Art Form? Dailies · Mon, 28 Mar 2011

Could we have just witnessed the birth of virtual reality tourism? Television channel 13th Street Universal, which specialises in thriller and crime content, has produced an augmented reality film…

 

Google Digitisation Project Thrown Ou... Dailies · Wed, 23 Mar 2011

A Federal Court judge in New York has rejected an agreement between Google, publishers and a group of about 40 libraries. Google has been digitising books in these libraries – which include Stanford …

 

Whither Epublishing? Dailies · Tue, 22 Mar 2011

On 1 March, EU inspectors conducted raids in the offices of publishers across Europe. The EU explained the raids were motivated by concerns that ebook publishers “violate EU anti-trust rules that…

 

New Site Gives Mobile E-Books Away fo... Dailies · Mon, 21 Mar 2011

Many devoted readers are, for various reasons, holding out against the urge to buy a tablet such as a Kindle or an iPad for e-reading purposes. Many of who don’t own a tablet do own a smartphone…

 

Australian Poetry in your Phone Dailies · Mon, 07 Mar 2011

Wheeler Centre resident organisation Australian Poetry has launched its own iPhone app. The app aims to be a one-stop shop for Australian poetry: “We would like to list all leading Australian poets, …

 

The Social Media Evolution Dailies · Mon, 28 Feb 2011

The Social Network may not have won the best picture Oscar, but social networking has been given a far greater honour – in Egypt. Parents of an Egyptian girl born during the events that recently led …

 

Brave New Book World Dailies · Mon, 28 Feb 2011

One of our biggest themes here at Wheeler Centre Dailies in recent times has been the future of the book. JE Fishman at The Nervous Breakdown has given readers his take on the topic – and Fishman’s f…

 

The Cloud Atlas Dailies · Tue, 15 Feb 2011

Two articles recently posted on the web on related topics have questioned the future of e-books, e-reading and even the internet more broadly. Tech industry executive and academic Don Norman asks if …

 

Thursday Digest: DIY Publishing Dailies · Thu, 10 Feb 2011

Our theme this week in the Dailies has been the rapidly changing landscape of the publishing industry (here and here). Today we present a sample of the content pinging around the dubya-dubya-dubya…

 

The Quietest Revolution Dailies · Wed, 09 Feb 2011

Image via WikiCommons Digital publishing is the biggest thing to happen to books and writing in half a millennium, and there’s a torrent of information on the topic out…

 

Web Digest: HuffPost & The Daily Dailies · Mon, 07 Feb 2011

The twitosphere is abuzz about the sale of the Huffington Post news website to America Online, or AOL. AOL was of course one of the world’s biggest companies when it bought Time Warner at inflated…

 

Latest Salvos in UK Library Battle Dailies · Mon, 07 Feb 2011

Detail of the British Library, via WikiCommons Hundreds of thousands of Britons braved the February cold on Saturday to protest the closure of some 450 local lending…

 

Assange On Trial Dailies · Thu, 03 Feb 2011

If bookings for our WikiLeaks event on February 18 are any indication (it booked out faster than a royal wedding), we just can’t read enough about Julian Assange and his controversial website. Guy…

 

Everything Old is New Again Dailies · Thu, 03 Feb 2011

There’s hardly a writer who isn’t familiar with the horrors of completing funding applications. Sometimes it feels like they are specifically designed to filter out all but the most doggedly souls…

 

How to Count to a Million Dailies · Wed, 02 Feb 2011

For more than a generation writers, readers and publishers have eyed bestseller lists with a sense of triumph or trepidation. The rise of the e-book means that someone has to figure out how to keep t…

 

Can Bedtime Reading Save Publishing? Dailies · Tue, 01 Feb 2011

Not one to be daunted by predictions of a publishing e-apocalypse, author Sean Cummings figures he’s found the way to save the book. The writer is using new media to try to save old media: he’s set u…

 

Why do e-books have to cost so much? Dailies · Mon, 31 Jan 2011

Ever wondered why an e-book costs as much as it does? After all, its just a file isn’t it? Michael Hyatt, CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, the largest Christian publishing company in the world and…

 

Writers Take to the Twitosphere Dailies · Mon, 31 Jan 2011

Margaret Atwood tweeted this weekend. That may seem an unremarkable event in and of itself, but it’s prompted a piece at Suite 101 about writers in the twitosphere.In her tweet, the much-lauded and o…

 

Distribution Rights v Reader Rights Dailies · Fri, 21 Jan 2011

Two e-readers (image courtesy of Bobbi Newman, via Flickr) Dianna Dilworth at eBookNewser wonders whether ebooks will change the way books are sold across regions.The…

 

Digital Books Get Their Gongs Dailies · Thu, 20 Jan 2011

Will Kindle e-books get the nod? In another sign that the digital book market is maturing, it now has its own industry awards. The Bookseller has launched the FutureBooks…

 

DIY Book Marketing Dailies · Thu, 20 Jan 2011

Over at the Wall Street Journal, Joanne Kaufman is looking at how authors are becoming their own marketing departments.Changes in technology are shrinking the profit margins – and marketing budgets…

 

Headlines? Schmedlines Dailies · Wed, 22 Dec 2010

If you’ve been looking at the newspaper and thinking you could do a better job then Schmedlines could prove to be the perfect distraction.The idea is simple: get a real news story with a weak…

 

Assange Memoir Due Next Year Dailies · Wed, 22 Dec 2010

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is reported to have sold his memoir to UK press Canongate, according to the Bookseller.Still facing charges for sexual assault in Sweden, Assange is expected to…

 

Australian Threatens to Sue for Twitt... Dailies · Mon, 29 Nov 2010

The Australian’s editor-in-chief Chris Mitchell has threatened to sue academic Julie Posetti for defamatory tweets she allegedly made about Mitchell, according to an ABC report.Posetti was tweeting q…

 

Scott Jumps Paywalls with a Single Sp... Dailies · Thu, 25 Nov 2010

Yesterday ABC Managing Director Mark Scott gave a keynote address extolling the virtues of Twitter as journalism tool and arguing against paywalls.“Lock yourself away – out of the conversation, out o…

 

Dreaming of an iPhone Christmas Dailies · Wed, 24 Nov 2010

Curious George is one of the characters appearing on an app this Christmas Just in time for stocking stuffers, Publisher’s Weekly have surveyed what children’s publishers a…

 

Year of the E-reader? Dailies · Mon, 22 Nov 2010

Way back in January pundits were calling 2010 the Year of the e-reader. Over at Read Write Web, they think the year has lived up to that promise with the appearance of the Kindle, Sony e-reader and, …

 

Meanland: Reading Without Privacy Event · Tue, 16 Nov 2010

Today, we’re all reading and writing more than ever, on text messages, on Twitter and on Facebook. But has social networking broken down the distinction between our public and our private lives…

 

Meanland: Reading Without Privacy Video · Tue, 16 Nov 2010

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Today, we’re all reading and writing more than ever, on text messages, on Twitter and on Facebook. But has social networking broken down the distinction between our public and our private lives…

 

Social Reading Dailies · Mon, 15 Nov 2010

Social Books on an iPad Reading is no longer a solitary affair and book clubs are moving online. The New York Times technology blog’s review of the Social Reading app…

 

Digital Lit Journal Has Arrived Dailies · Fri, 12 Nov 2010

As Australia grapples with the future of lit journals online, a recent Guardian blog post says there has been “a renaissance rooted in technology” for the UK’s little magazines.Interestingly…

 

Zadie Smith vs Facebook Dailies · Wed, 10 Nov 2010

Poster from the film, The Social Network The New York Review of Books has published a scathing review by novelist Zadie Smith on the film, The Social Network.Smith damns…

 

Hold the Print by Paul Mitchell Dailies · Thu, 04 Nov 2010

Author Paul Mitchell Anyone fortunate enough to have had work published in Meanjin will testify to the thrill of knowing their writing has shared in a history that their…

 

Meanjin Editor Goes Offline Dailies · Fri, 29 Oct 2010

Meanjin editor Sophie Cunningham Meanjin editor Sophie Cunningham will leave the literary journal at the end of this year and, according to Jason Steger’s report in the…

 

Barry's Movie Deal Dailies · Thu, 28 Oct 2010

Writer and now executive producer Max Barry Yesterday a relieved Max Barry tweeted about his online book being made into a film by director Darren Aronofsky. Barry tweeted …

 

New Nook Shares Reading Around Dailies · Wed, 27 Oct 2010

US book chain Barnes and Noble have announced they’ll release a new e-reader that’s creeping closer to being an iPad, according to GalleyCat.Unlike the Kindle the Nook Color promises a new high…

 

Crikey Editor on Journalism Online Dailies · Tue, 19 Oct 2010

Click to see the full video “As an online journalist, pressing the publish button is just the start,” Sophie Black told us on the Lunchbox/Soapbox as she…

 

In Defence of Online News by Sophie B... Dailies · Mon, 18 Oct 2010

Crikey editor Sophie Black Dwarf’s penis gets stuck to vacuum cleanerThat was the headline that made me hate the internet.Were you one of thousands of readers that clicked …

 

Clare Bowditch Starts a Feminist Twit... Dailies · Fri, 15 Oct 2010

Clare Bowditch on a recent album cover It began last night when singer/songwriter Clare Bowditch watched our latest Feminism Has Failed video. She tweeted about them…

 

Sophie Black - In Defence of Online News Video · Thu, 14 Oct 2010

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News got cheap on the internet – some would say free, but not Crikey editor Sophie Black. In this Lunchbox/Soapbox she doesn’t shy away from the worst of the web but looks to those moments when…

 

Lunchbox / Soapbox: In Defence of Online News Event · Thu, 14 Oct 2010

The 24 hour news cycle and the rise of online journalism has many critics. Sophie Black defends the role of the web in telling us about current affairs and the issues of the day.Lunchbox/Soapbox is …

 

The Long Tail of Blogging and Publish... Dailies · Wed, 29 Sep 2010

Ben Eltham When was the last time you bought a CD?If you’re like most young Australians, the answer is: a while ago. The advent of digital file sharing technologies has…

 

Rewiring Our Brains: Nicholas Carr Event · Thu, 23 Sep 2010

It doesn’t come as news that we’re living in an age where technology is producing profound changes in the ways we live and communicate, remember and socialise.One of the world’s most ground-breaking …

 

Rewiring Our Brains: Nicholas Carr Video · Thu, 23 Sep 2010

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It doesn’t come as news that we’re living in an age where technology is producing profound changes in the ways we live and communicate, remember and socialise.One of the world’s most ground-breaking …

 

The Disappearing Book Dailies · Sun, 12 Sep 2010

Over at Slate, Jack Shafer is marking the decline in importance of books – both in the shrinking newspaper coverage and in the value of the printed object.Shafer remembers the glory days when the…

 

Who better to introduce Australians t... Dailies · Fri, 10 Sep 2010

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cNicholas Carrwww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full Episodes2010 ElectionFox News

 

Forget teleconferencing. The new way ... Dailies · Thu, 09 Sep 2010

 

Meanland: Copyright vs Creativity with Cory Doctorow Video · Thu, 02 Sep 2010

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In this Meanland lecture, Cory Doctorow discusses how writers can seize the possibilities of the digital future.The internet and digital technology is challenging traditional notions of copyright…

 

Meanland: Copyright vs Creativity Event · Thu, 02 Sep 2010

In this Meanland lecture, Cory Doctorow discusses how writers can seize the possibilities of the digital future.The internet and digital technology is challenging traditional notions of copyright…

 

MWF opens with Whedon Dailies · Sun, 29 Aug 2010

Whedon under tsunami, image courtesy Wolf Cocklin The Melbourne Writers Festival kicked off with Friday night’s dual keynotes and the announcement of the Age Book of the…

 

Andrew Wylie Retreats on E-books Dailies · Fri, 27 Aug 2010

The great digital rights siege of 2010 seems to be over as uber-agent Andrew Wylie has brokered a peace with Random House and is “in discussion” with Penguin Books.After breaking ranks with…

 

Snowy Mountain Scheme for the 21st Ce... Dailies · Wed, 25 Aug 2010

Recently Australia celebrated the 60th anniversary of the momentous Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Power Act – the first step in a 25-year journey to modernise our nation. Unrivalled in its…

 

Waiting for Godin to Publish Dailies · Tue, 24 Aug 2010

Bestselling author Seth Godin dropped a bombshell on publishing when he told Galleycat that he was no longer going to publish books in a traditional way. After publishing a dozen print books, Godin …

 

Cory Doctorow on Curated Computing Dailies · Fri, 20 Aug 2010

(Image courtesy of Joi Ito) Meanland guest Cory Doctorow believes that ‘the personal and the handmade’ are the future of content, according to his latest Guardian column.He…

 

Melbourne publisher Sleepers are brin... Dailies · Tue, 17 Aug 2010

Sleepers Publishing iPhone Application from Sleepers Publishing on Vimeo.

 

Freeplay Games Festival Awards Dailies · Tue, 10 Aug 2010

This weekend the Freeplay independent games festival kicks off with programmers, gamers and artists converging on the State Library.As well as talks and workshops from local and international games …

 

The Writer's Mix Tape: Max Barry Event · Mon, 09 Aug 2010

What music inspires the much-loved author of Syrup, Jennifer Government and Company? Was Max Barry listening to Kraftwerk or Men at Work when he wrote his cult online novel Machine Man? Our Writer’s…

 

Max Barry: It’s Not Me, It’s You Dailies · Sun, 08 Aug 2010

Author Max Barry I’ve written more bad fiction than you’ve read. I’m serious. I’ve done a hundred or so drafts of nine or ten manuscripts, and let’s not even start on the s…

 

Cordite Gets Creative and Common Dailies · Wed, 04 Aug 2010

Cordite editor David The latest issue of Australian online journal Cordite is asking its readers to become re-mixers by offering them the chance to download the…

 

Finding the Right Price in Amazon Dailies · Wed, 21 Jul 2010

If you’re thinking of making millions with your upcoming e-book, over at eBooknewsr they’ve got a preferred pricetag of US$1.99.In their survey of new authors, eBooknewsr found that many found new…

 

John Birmingham Video · Wed, 14 Jul 2010

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John Birmingham discusses his latest book After America, the empowerment of women as action heroines and how he came to be writing thrillers. He also touches topics as broad as the reaction to his w…

 

ABA Conference Tweets Dailies · Sun, 11 Jul 2010

Wondering what’s on your local bookseller’s mind? The 86th annual Australian Booksellers Association Conference has just finished in Brisbane this week and much of the talk was online.Angela Myer

 

Huff Post on Social networking books Dailies · Thu, 01 Jul 2010

The Huffington Post asked this week if Twitter sells books and got several emphatic yeses.Michael Taeckens, Publicity Director of Algonquin Books, offers three simple rules for interacting on…

 

Jackal says e-books on hold Dailies · Tue, 29 Jun 2010

Star literary agent Andrew Wylie has said that he’s prepared to take the licensing rights for his client’s e-books outside of print publishing and thinks the days of chain bookstores are numbered.Wyl…

 

Wikipedia Open to All Dailies · Wed, 16 Jun 2010

Yesterday the world’s largest online encyclopedia revised its editing policy according to the BBC.In the past controversial articles – such as the profile of George W Bush – were locked to prevent…

 

If you'd rather wait for the video th... Dailies · Tue, 15 Jun 2010

 

New Matilda to stop publishing Dailies · Thu, 27 May 2010

New Matilda announced today it will stop publishing after 25th of June. The online magazine has been creating content since 2004 and has built the careers of writers including satirist Ben Pobje and …

 

Australian publisher gets gritty with... Dailies · Tue, 25 May 2010

Australian publisher Allen & Unwin has launched its first iPad app – just in time for the Australian arrival of Apple’s latest game changer.Underbelly: The Golden Mile has been launched with a free…

 

Social networking examined Dailies · Tue, 09 Feb 2010

The New York Review of Books on Ben Mezrich's The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal and Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most…

 

A map showing electricity usage in No... Dailies · Mon, 08 Feb 2010

 

The digital future of books Dailies · Mon, 14 Dec 2009

The New York Review of Books on Google's plan to digitalise millions of books, presages the Wheeler Centre's debate on the same subject. Reading in a Time of…

 

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