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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Links of interest for November 11th 2008 through November 13th 2008: New York Times: Fake New York Times Declares Iraq War Over! Here’s Who Did It [Gawker] - “The Iraq War is over, according to the fake New York Times! This morning a cadre of volunteers has fanned out across New York Cit...

Links of interest for October 29th 2008: New chapter for Google Book Search [Official Google Blog] - Google Book Search settles the lawsuit, makes a whole lot of things more accessible (especially if you’re a library or a university) and generally makes books searchable! (Read Siva Vaidhyanath...

Links of interest for October 27th 2008: Telecommunications Today Report 6: Internet Activity and Content [ACMA, 22 October 2008] - A detailed look at Internet use in Australia (September 2008): “Age is a determining factor in the activities consumers choose to perform online. Email is the mos...

Links of interest for October 24th 2008 through October 26th 2008: (SPOILER) What happened when the lights went out. [Whedonesque] - Joss Whedon talks straight to the fans about Dollhouse: “Sadly, this is not a naughty post. It’s just Joss nattering on again. I thought it was time to che...

Links of interest for October 22nd 2008 through October 23rd 2008: Playing Columbine: An Interview with Game Designer and Filmmaker Danny Ledonne (Part One) [Confessions of an Aca/Fan] - A fascinating interview with the man behind the very controversial ’serious game’ Super Columbine Mas...