by Peter Giles
I spoke today on a panel at the Australia Council for the Arts looking broadly at the futures of online engagement by arts organisations. The opening presentation of the day was given by Stephanie Hutchinson who set up the ‘Discover’ education programs at the National Theatre in the UK. I was really inspired to hear [...]
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There’s certainly a groundswell of interest in emerging media from TV and radio broadcasters, telcos, converged media companies, digital agencies and even the funding agencies. A lot has changed in three years and there is now much more openness to considering content propositions which aren’t limited to a single media platform or format. But I [...]
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I attended a conference run by the Australia Council and the ABC today called Revealing the Arts. OK, there’s a long way to go here, but it didn’t really come together and you got the feeling by the end of the day that the gap between the ‘geeks’ and the ‘luvvies’ is here to stay. Rights [...]
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In November 2006 NSW Premier Morris Iemma announced that Sydney would roll out a free wifi network claiming that it would boost business in the city. There’s been a lot of water under the bridge since then in NSW politics and in May 2008 they finally announced that this grand vision, along with many others, [...]
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In late May I attended a great conference on Copyright Future – Copyright Freedom held at Old Parliament House in Canberra which featured a keynote talk by Stanford University Professor Lawrence who is pictured above. One session of the conference was run in the old House of Representatives chamber and many of the speakers were [...]
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I’m working on a new suite of courses at AFTRS at the moment and talking to lots of people in the industry and also potential students about the kinds of programs they think we should run. Heard something interesting on Future Tense (ABC Radio National) about the School of Everything which got me thinking differently [...]
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Currently the public service is grappling with policy for how it should deal with employee’s use of social media. What are fair guidelines for online behaviour? Am I allowed to blog at work, what about if I talk about my work while I’m blogging at home? Tricky territory indeed unless agencies are generous with their [...]
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I saw a great presentation today by Ben Self from Blue State Digital who was one of the driving forces behind Obama’s online campaign. Self worked with Obama in the lead up to securing the democratic nomination and then throughout the campaign itself. What was immediately evident was that this was a well executed but [...]
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Another great speech by Sir Ken Robinson is now up on the RSA site and can be found here. Sir Ken has a very enlightened view of education that goes beyond many of the commonly accepted divides – vocational vs academic, back to basics vs. liberal free-for-all – and urges that we embrace complexity to [...]
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MIT has put students to work creating mobile applications for the iphone and android platforms among others. The results look impressive after a 13 week development period. They’re predicting that creating this kind of application is only going to get easier over time. Read the article and see a selection of the applications featured here. [...]
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