I’d hoped to flesh out this post further today but I’ve been gobbled up by a series of different events and haven’t had a chance to come back to it.  Rather than sit on the post and lose momentum though, I’d like to throw this out for comment, suggestion, criticism, or insight into other people’s experiences.
Background
One of the ideas that came out of my latest performance review was the need to develop a communication strategy to facilitate engagement with the wider faculty community. Traditionally I’ve had little need for a …

Just in the last two days I’ve decided to make some fairly sweeping changes to the commenting system on this blog and have installed the Disqus Comment System. This video is a basic overview of what Disqus is, how you set it up (primarily from the standpoint of self-hosted WordPress blogs), as well as a discussion on the implications that the framework has for readers as well as site owners.
Disqus describes itself as:
“Disqus, pronounced “discuss”, is a service and tool for web comments and discussions. The Disqus comment system …

Gina Minks and I have been having an ongoing discussion this evening about FriendFeed versus Facebook and it’s re-ignited an old train of thought that I’ve been pondering for quite some time now.
By and large the bulk of the online conversations I engage in these days take place on Twitter.  Sure I blog, and I post comments elsewhere, but these tend to be fairly one-off threads.  I’ll write a post here and perhaps receive a comment or two in response every once in a while, but there is rarely many-to-many …

The title of this post originates from a phrase my grandfather used to say.  In other words, think before you speak – or on the Internet, before you type.
As I’ve said before, I am very interested in observing how new media is used across education – especially amidst the local UNSW population.  Twitter in particular is being increasingly adopted by both staff and students alike, and we are now beginning to see some wonderful networks evolve and grow.
So in order to track what’s being discussed I have subscribed to the …

I’ve only just finished reading a recent article by the ABC News titled “Journalism students ‘don’t read papers‘” and cannot help but post a response.
The article indicates
“A survey of Australian journalism students found 90 per cent of students do not like reading the newspaper, preferring to source news from commercial television or online media.”
Notably absent from the article was any mention of the specific forms of “online media” that are supposedly being used by students.  Instead the article highlighted largely superficial responses that paints young journalism students in a very …