December 2009
Interesting doco on SBS 2 about comic book journalism from war zones. Joe Sacco etc. On now (7.30 Aust EST)
Armageddon and Apocalyptic Imagery as Metaphors of... →
America's Apocalyptic Rebirth →
The ubiquity of rebirth imagery in films released between 2000 and 2005 overshadows the narratives through which they are projected. From artistic failures (Birth) to box-office hits (Passion of the…
Matrix in theory →
The Matrix trilogy continues to split opinions widely, polarising the downright dismissive and the wildly enthusiastic. Nevertheless, it has been fully embraced as a rich source of theoretical and…
RT @nytjim: Want to worry about something other than terrorism? How about an asteroid strike? Need Bruce Willis. http://bit.ly/7YH3Lx
Press works hard “to report things that are true, but less concerned whether overall impression… is true impression” http://bit.ly/5r7v4o
Fascinating list of Tweeters into “applied storytelling”: performers, multimedia, marketing, anthropology, self-help via @storytellin
Apocalypse Left and Right: A fantastic Graphic Primer from @archcomix http://bit.ly/63QYyf
RT @jafurtado: CES preview: three e-readers to watch in 2010. Jon Stokes |Ars technica http://bit.ly/6Og5SD
List from @innovativeinter of eight inspirational audio slideshows http://bit.ly/7kZMh8 via @storytellin
Exploiting vulnerabilities in the way the media does its job http://bit.ly/5r7v4o via @jayrosen_nyu @codybrown
Twitter again becomes focal point for new Iran protests. Shows long term Iran Twitter effect still too early to judge http://bit.ly/5gCcVj
Cute info graphic: logo style decade summary http://bit.ly/7HzumD via @mediastorm
Putting the US under the Myers Briggs lens: an extraverted, intuitive, feeling, judging nation. http://bit.ly/6n4r94 via @DrBillASU
News publishers need to think harder about placing images at the centre of reader information & navigation experience http://bit.ly/7iQYKY
Extraordinary: web entrepreneur’s house constructed to accommodate magnificent & massive library. http://bit.ly/6wL9u3 via @TheOccasional
NYT on new fees and fences for news sites. “It’s about paying for service & convenience, not news” says @hermida http://nyti.ms/7Hr8V4
Web pay models: “They’re trying to put the toothpaste back into the tube…not much, realistic hard-headed thinking.” http://bit.ly/4qR3A6
RT @henryjenkins: “participation” emerges from cultural, not technological, conditions, though media change can facilitate cultural changes
“Reza Aslan’s elegant, incisive book breaks the spell cast by “the emperor’s new talk”” on terrorism http://bit.ly/7ETcWL via @jeffjarvis
Happy holidays Tweeple - may all your partridges be white!
Check out Guardian’s fantastic interactive pictorial year in review calendar http://bit.ly/8kLozS
File this one as student resource: Multimedia Rules to Live By and Seven Steps to Training Yourself http://bit.ly/7tvide via @gmarkham
The God Gene: religion as evolutionary instinct for manufacturing social solidarity. NYT review. http://bit.ly/8BR3xI via @stevesilberman
Very useful round-up from @jsb: 2009’s Most Influential Media About Media. http://bit.ly/5qPwwz @jayrosen_nyu says add: http://bit.ly/T6Bgu
NYT reader photos on family: “striking how frequently notion of family expressed through interaction of generations” http://bit.ly/8ZR3aM
Leaving you with a little Christmas retro nostalgia. Great images from 1940s http://bit.ly/5F4vX7 via @brainpicker
The new j student needs multimedia skills set, understanding of niche audiences & an entrepreneurial mind set http://bit.ly/4ElYXs
Interesting overview on US j schools adapting to new industry realities and new student needs http://bit.ly/4ElYXs via @lavrusik
The Nevada gambler, al-Qaida, the CIA and the mother of all cons revealed in Playboy http://bit.ly/8sfZgM
Rumors mount on Apple Tablet demo in Jan. 1st of a series of Apple Tablet style devices? http://bit.ly/7YEVLK & here http://bit.ly/7vsrhQ
Looking for the elusive model: 8 News Media Business Trends for 2010. Good round-up from @lavrusik
NYT cautions iTablet glee: “Important to understand how difficult these devices will be to produce.. if done right” http://bit.ly/6RGNXv
Beautiful space junk. “Wonderful found art/science” says @TheOccasional. A Long Duration Love Affair http://bit.ly/4A9Nhr
“Can someone explain why WashPo should cover health care if they #fail this hard on a snowball fight,” asks @CodyBrown http://bit.ly/5ZhtUg
Inspirational account: DC African-American Church move’s beyond “bibliolatry” & embrace of gay unions http://bit.ly/6817YT via @johnmcquaid
Did China kill COP15? NYT’s Andrew Revkin on Guardian account: http://bit.ly/7fZWSp & Atlantic’s James Fallows http://bit.ly/4mW2wq
Did China kill Cop15? Mark Lynas scathing eyewitness account of China obstructing final deal (Guardian) http://bit.ly/6Wrwh0
Beyond the because-I-told-you-so model of truth: Jrnalism Needs a Business Model for linked verification http://bit.ly/8s0Car via @brizzyc
Crazy RT @johnmcquaid: Bizarre: WaPo ignored own staffer’s eyewitness account, video, photos, tweets; went w/police CYA http://bit.ly/4pGvZc
Just catching up on Pulitizer winning team, Politifact’s Lie of the year story tracking Palin’s Death Panel meme http://bit.ly/58z8hN
N/paper “economic” probs not as bad as feared says @dankennedy_nu: http://bit.ly/84r67D. But new news ecology still demands sweeping change
When filmmakers blow up a city, a planet, it’s called apocalyptic. But what if apocalypse is not a grand event…http://bit.ly/60bCFe
Good’s produced a great infographic from journalism.org’s Biggest News Stories of the Year http://bit.ly/67yUYR
“The immediacy of 9/11 brings up imprtnt point about the end of the world. Whose world? Is it the world, or a world?” http://bit.ly/5RVTGW
I know you’re sick of Decade lists by now but this Top 10 Science stories is an enlightening one: http://bit.ly/7J7rcI via @Eaterofsun
Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar 2009. Big Picture is updating this amazing series each day. http://bit.ly/6zlxL8
Social Media, Once Wild, now Tame? “We have made this topic more fit for human habitation,” says @Grant27 http://bit.ly/5ul97h
Just set the out of office reply to my work email saying I’m on study leave, back mid next year. Great feeling.
Car park as way of life. New plan “all muscle without clothing” http://bit.ly/6MbdY0 & here http://bit.ly/80y0v1 via @ballardian @PD_Smith