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Creative Economy Weekly Top 5
The most read reports 9 - 15 May 2008
1. WEB 2.0: Catching up
2. Budget 2008: what it means for broadcasting
3. Winner creates all?
4. What the internet means for the way journalists write
5. The 16-year-old's challenge to journalists
1. WEB 2.0: Catching up
2. Budget 2008: what it means for broadcasting
3. Winner creates all?
4. What the internet means for the way journalists write
5. The 16-year-old's challenge to journalists
NEWS FROM CCI
BUILDING AN AUSTRALASIAN COMMONS
24 June, Brisbane
Co-hosted by CCI and Creative Commons Australia this one day conference is for those interested in the free internet. Through presentations, workshops and round table discussions the conference aims to be an open forum to further the commons worldwide. Registration closes 9 June.
CCI Conference 2008
CREATING VALUE: BETWEEN COMMERCE AND COMMONS
25-27 June, Brisbane
ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries & Innovation
24 June, Brisbane
Co-hosted by CCI and Creative Commons Australia this one day conference is for those interested in the free internet. Through presentations, workshops and round table discussions the conference aims to be an open forum to further the commons worldwide. Registration closes 9 June.
CCI Conference 2008
CREATING VALUE: BETWEEN COMMERCE AND COMMONS
25-27 June, Brisbane
ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries & Innovation
What's New
Media literacy: concepts, research and regulatory issues
Robyn Penman and Sue Turnbull / Australian Communications and Media Authority
This report provides a historical overview of the academic literature surrounding media literacy in both traditional broadcast and digital media environments, and identifies educational and other organisations involved in promoting media literacy in Australia and overseas. Posted
Creative disloyalty
Richard Holloway / Scottish Arts Council
An essay provides a wide-ranging philosophical exploration of the paradoxical relationship between the artist and the state, and the nature of creativity. Posted
Perceptions, preconceptions and visibility
Antony Funnell / Media Report ABC Radio National
Palestinian-American journalist Ali Abunimah discusses visibility in the media and the preconceptions and stereotyping that tag some people as less than desirable and see others ignored altogether. Posted
2008-09 federal budget: Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
Government of Australia
Portfolio budget statements for the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts and organisations including the Australia Council for the Arts, the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, the National Film and Sound Archive, the National Gallery of Australia, the National Library of Australia, the National Museum of Australia, and Screen Australia. Posted
2008-09 federal budget: Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
Government of Australia
Portfolio budget statements for the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the Special Broadcasting Service and the Australian Communications and Media Authority. Posted
Online project management software in the real world
Michele Murrain and Laura Quinn / Idealware
Managing all the dates, documents, tasks and people associated with a project can be daunting, but online project management software can help. Idealware presents three case studies of nonprofits who have used packages like Basecamp, Central Desktop and Trac to help manage real projects. Posted
A few good mapping and GIS tools
Eric Leland / Idealware
This article, part of Idealware's "A Few Good Tools" series, provides a summary of the software that is used to create maps or to display geographic data and liked by the Idealware community. Posted
This house believes that the Internet is the greatest force for democratisation in the world
Oxford Internet Institute
In this webcast about the Internet and democratisation Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia joined three of the OpenNet Initiative's principal investigators and other high profile speakers in a debate at the Oxford Union. Posted
Grand theft childhood: The surprising truth about violent video games and what parents can do
Lawrence Kutner and Cheryl Olson / Simon and Schuster
Despite the media hype and political posturing, new, federally funded research on violent video games and teenagers indicates that the politicians and even some health professionals may have it all wrong. Posted
Hidden flow: The rising tide of European e-waste in West Africa
Consumers International
A vast dangerous and hidden trade in computers and other electrical equipment is flowing from rich western nations to developing countries in Asia and Africa. Posted
Consumer choice and preference in adopting services
Australian Communications and Media Authority
Mobiles challenge fixed line phones as the main form of communications for household consumers. 90 per cent of household consumers have both a fixed line phone and mobile phone, with nearly half (45 per cent) preferring to use mobiles as their main voice communications. Posted
High-speed academic networks and the future of the Internet
John Timmer / Ars Technica
The Internet's backbone should be able to scale to handle the sheer volume of traffic that it's expected to face in the foreseeable future. But a number of factors complicate any analysis based on the simple volume figures. Posted
Broadband: other countries do it better, but how?
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica
The US continues to fall on global broadband rankings, even as countries that are more rural and less wealthy surge ahead. Here's how they do it (hint: it does not involve wholesale deregulation). Posted
The Haseman paper: Issues in the arts sector
Brad Haseman / CHASS
Over the past decade have Australia's policies in arts and culture been aligned with policies in research and innovation? The answer is definitely no… Posted
National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) roadmap review discussion paper
National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS)
The National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) program aims to achieve a strategic and collaborative approach to investment in world-class research facilities, networks and infrastructure that are accessible to researchers and meet their long-term needs. NCRIS provides Australian researchers with major research facilities, supporting infrastructure and networks necessary for world-class research amounting to $542 million over 2005-2011. Responses need to be in by Wednesday 14 May. Posted
The parallel information universe: what's out there and what it means for libraries
Mike Eisenberg / Library Journal
Libraries - as institutions founded on meeting people's information needs - need to take the lead in the parallel information universe of Web 2.0 technologies. Some libraries are diving in already, but the library world as a whole must engage with these developments and determine how we can use them to meet our users' information needs better. Posted
Creative economy report 2008: the challenge of assessing the creative economy towards informed policy-making
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
This is the first comprehensive study to present the United Nations perspective on this emerging topic. This policy-oriented analysis is intended to facilitate a better understanding of the key issues underlying the emerging creative economy at national and international levels. Posted
Commercial television industry financial trends 1978-79 to 2005-06
Australian Communications and Media Authority
In the 20-year period from 1979-80, commercial television revenues outpaced the general Australian economy. However, since 2000 television revenue growth has slowed. Posted
Arts and disability action plan 2008-2010
Australia Council for the Arts
The Australia Council has developed the arts and disability action plan 2008-2010 to guide the organisation in its operations, programs and strategies in relation to access and equity for people with disabilities. Posted
The arts and democracy: A conversation with Dana Gioia
Dana Gioia and Jonathan Katz / National Endowment for the Arts
This interview considers the major challenges facing US public funding for the arts at the beginning of the 21st century. Posted
Budget 2008: what it means for broadcasting
MARGARET SIMONS detects some good news for community radio, but not a great deal else
What the internet means for the way journalists write
The internet is creating a more dynamic and interactive understanding of what disinterested reporting can mean, writes MARGARET SIMONS
Winner creates all?
Almost all creative ventures fail, but the successes can be spectacular, write PAUL ORMEROD and STUART CUNNINGHAM
Catching up
The internet looks like becoming a single social networking platform, writes MARGARET SIMONS
The 'next' museum wave: is social media here to stay?
Collections, audiences, distribution and access will continue to be the central concerns, writes ANGELINA RUSSO
Has radio blown the future?
Digital radio's delayed introduction could mean the future has been created by other audio media, writes JOCK GIVEN
The limitations of the crowd
MARGARET SIMONS looks at the results of an experiment in online reporting launched by Jay Rosen (above)
Mining the creative thread
The new government has a chance to prove itself a supporter of innovation in Australian industry, writes SIMON MARGINSON
The 16-year-old's challenge to journalists
A party in Narre Warren has exposed the limitations of an industry that plays only to mass audiences, writes MARGARET SIMONS