If any of you have not read/seen the news, Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced that community television stations would only be licensed until the end of 2015.

He said “The Government believes that the best outcome for community television is that, in the future, it uses the internet as its distribution platform,”.

Quite frankly, get your @#$% together Malcolm. How is TV meant to move online in Australia when most of Australia barely has the capability to stream a 720p youtube clip, let alone 1080p properly. And if the future of community television is online, why wouldn’t mainstream commercial television be online? considering the great disparity in funding and resources

Read more about it here.

Can technology progress independently of art and culture?

• There is no culture without technology
• To make art you need technology. It is dependent.
• Does Betty agree?

What is the untapped potential of hypertext?  Will we ever be satisfied with it?

• Ted Nelson and his many wonderful theories on everything. (Transclusion)
• “Therefore” to start a para in a book relies on the last paragraph – result of linear form of the medium (book) – limits hypertext
• internet = equal distance between things
• can have different interpretations of traditional texts, but in terms of format they are the same (eg. can’t argue that something different happens at pg. 22, but can argue meaning) – hypertext changes this – can still tell stories, but don’t have to be premised on order
• Hypertext doesn’t work well with linear media? How you go about writing needs to change (but how does this work with all storytelling? All a mess…)
• No planning, just start writing and connecting bits
• Wikipedia – not a realised version of hypertext – realises it but in a closed way – two way links but only within site
• shouldn’t have comments – should link to own blog post where you explain opinion

Again we must link to others blogs, so here it goes.

Amy’s post talks about print literacy and credibility. Check it out, it is a good discussion.

Nethaniel talks about the idea of school, starting times and educations delivery, points brought up by adrian in the lecture.

Check out this game on Kiralee’s blog. Prime example of the things Adrian talked about in the week 5 lecture.

So, I saved my blogs as drafts and didn’t end up posting them the other week (week 5 symposium) so here they are now!

I swear he only talks about the symposiums, but check out Callum’s post on our last symposium here.

Very insightful stuff from Natalie.

I liked Nethaniels take on hypertext and text, you sneaky bastard. Click here.

So, my tutor, Betty Sargeant told me today that I could write about footy, so here it is.

Check out the video below of Jake King announcing his retirement in a tigers meeting on monday. It shows the true friendships and passion that Australia’s great game can form, with King breaking up throughout his speech. (cool camera work too and stuff). (carn tiges). (she told us specifically to not say “carn tiges”). (#troll).

Check it out Here 

I thought Kiralee came up with some good questions about our course, check them out here.