Links for March 10th 2009: Failed Negotiations - YouTube Will Block Music Videos in the UK [NYTimes.com] - “YouTube just announced that it wasn’t able to reach a new deal with the UK’s Performing Rights Society (PRS for Music), which collects licensing fees for musicians and labels...

I have been meaning to write a very long, complex and cerebral post about the seemingly exponential growth of Twitter in the last few months, but as my list of related bookmarks grows, the time to read them runs screaming, so I thought I’d try and capture a few thoughts in the next week or two in ...

Links for February 26th 2009 through March 6th 2009: Australians spend much more time online | Australian IT - “The Nielsen Online Internet and Technology Report surveyed more than 2000 Australians and found the average Aussie spent 89.2 hours a week consuming media last year or almost 80 per ...

Until very recently Scans_Daily was a livejournal fan community dedicated to comic books.  Their main activity was to post scans from comics, ranging from a page though to a significant portion of a comic book – mainly recent releases but also back issues – and to summarise, critique and, a...

Links for January 11th 2009 through January 13th 2009: The Evolution of Dance 2 Proves You Can’t Go Home Again [YouTube Reviewed] - “That guy who has done arguably the worst job in the history of the internet capitalizing on one of the most widely viewed viral videos ever is back (and, of co...

[*ahem* SPOILER WARNING!]     As a dedicated Battlestar Galactica fan I can’t wait for the final episodes to start in January and I’m already enjoying the countdown webisode series, ‘The Face of the Enemy’ which features Felix Gaeta, two Cylon Eights (Sharon’s model) and a few ve...

Links for December 9th 2008: Australia’s census going CC BY [Creative Commons] - “In a small, easy to miss post, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has made a very exciting announcement. They’re going CC - and under an Attribution-only license, no less. From the ABS website… T...

Links for November 26th 2008: Obama’s Video Strategy: A Peek Behind the Curtain [NewTeeVee] - “During the 2008 presidential election, the Barack Obama campaign set up dedicated new media teams in many states, but there were only eight with dedicated videographers: Pennsylvania, Virginia, Col...

As most people in Australia would now be aware, one of the most important developments in terms of civil rights and the Australian internet has now gone before the courts as a consortium, led by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) is suing ISP iiNet for refusing to cut off cust...

Links of interest for November 20th 2008: New Study Shows Time Spent Online Important for Teen Development [MacArthur Foundation] - “Results from [a] … US study on teens and their use of digital media show that America’s youth are developing important social and technical skills online...