Posts in the "Policy" Category

• Forget Art Let’s Watch the Footy

  Australian Production
  

  I attended a roundtable session today called ‘Content Crisis and Convergence’ run by QUT’s Centre for Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation. For me it was a blast from the past. Debates I hadn’t heard aired since 2007 seem to be back from the dead. Sadly we don’t seem to have moved on substantially. Self [...]

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• Online Strategy for the Arts

  Arts
  

  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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• “If it doesn’t exist online, it doesn’t exist”

  Arts
  

  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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• Fake Stephen Conroy Outed

  Emerging Media
  

  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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• Does digital rights management have a future?

  DRM
  Apple’s Steve Jobs has called for the record industry to abandon digital rights management for all online music stores. He has posted a statement on the Apple web site which argues the case for abandoning a system about which Apple often takes flack from consumers. The main complaints are its restrictions on 5 copies and [...]

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• Digital Content Industry Action Agenda

  Emerging Media
  A series of presentations on the Digital Content Industry Action Agenda (DCIAA) have been held around Australia in the last two weeks. The DCIAA is an industry led initiative aimed at developing Australia’s nascent digital content industries. Tom Kennedy (Media Zoo, AFC Commissioner] led an industry leaders group whose report ‘Unlocking the Potential’ was released [...]

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