The Bush Telegraph of the broadband cable is an initiative which aims to spread the message of the most relevant contributions of the day from mainstream, academic and online citizen journalism. Anzac Biscuit wants to provide a forum that joins the voices of all these media makers together. Why? To be an example which shows the professionals of the three mediums the landscape and best characteristics of the other's contributions. Anzac Biscuit's endeavour is to improve the content of both academic, professional and citizen journalism; something which can only be of benefit of we the public.
In the coming weeks Anzac Biscuit will provide our reader's with a deeper investigation of the reasoning behind the benefits of this initiative. On our first day of 'The Bush Telegraph of the broadband cable' we will look at the most pertinent stories from today's two Melbourne daily newspapers.
Anzac Biscuit gold medal
Awarded to The Herald Sun's John Anderson for his human interest piece and expose' - Gary Ablett tells of his remorse.
Anzac Biscuit silver medal
Awarded to The Age for their publication of the Reuters report - Youtube stops account of anti-torture activist.
Anzac Biscuit bronze medal
We have a dead heat!
A bronze medal to Sally Morrell for her spirited opinion piece in the Herald Sun where she defends Australia's new first lady - Hey, give Therese a break.
And a bronze medal goes to The Age for their publication in their technology section of the AP report - Power - hungry Google launches green energy scheme.
Anzac Biscuit fourth place ribbons for diggers in the media trenches
from the Herald Sun -
Gerard McManus: The PM who fell to pride.
The editorial GM seeds of doubt
from The Age -
The AP report Can Oprah help Obama?
So just as the good ladies back in our history originally sent 'soldiers biscuits' to keep our digger's strength up on hardened battlefronts like Gallipoli, your Anzac Biscuit diggers will send you back their mail regarding our media's daily 'soldier's biscuit offerings'.
Our 'Digger's Mail' will share with you some of our reasoning behind the awarding of the day's Anzac Biscuit Medals in the hope of you the reader understanding our cause and prompting you to correspond with us.
Anzac Biscuit encourages any feedback on any element of 'The Bush Telegraph of the broadband cable' Project.
Thanks.
PS. AB apologizes for any layout inconsistencies, this software is a bit jittery.
Anzac Biscuit Digger Mail
John Anderson for - Gary Ablett tells of his remorse.
Anzac Biscuit is all about giving people a second chance. We are glad to see the Herald Sun give Gary Ablett the opportunity to explain his remorse over his involvement in drug taking that lead to Alisha Horan’s death and to explain the behaviour of a drug taker from first hand experience.
Anzac Biscuit appreciates this story as it educates the public re the circumstance facing confessed drug addict and former star Australian Rules footballer Ben Cousins. In Australian culture where our sporting heroes are role models, indeed Gary Ablett’s nickname during his football career was ‘God’, Anderson’s story communicates in a very effective way to the mainstream populous a much needed understanding of the pathetic life a drug addict leads and also the dangers they pose to their own person and those people they involve themselves with.
While later in the day the Herald Sun made the addition of Alisha’s father’s ongoing disgust at Ablett to the online version of this article, Anzac Biscuit will not condemn the Herald Sun for being sensationalist, because we believe the social good that the story aims to achieve is indeed of current relevance. While we think that in his Christian heart Ablett may hope or even pray for the young girl’s father’s forgiveness, we don’t think he would expect it, and the father’s undiminished heart break is a very unfortunate reality of life that may never be soothed – one unavoidable complication in the printing of this story.
Anzac Biscuit will let a Herald Sun reader have the final say, because his opinion is demonstrative of one of the issues a journalist like Anderson and his editor would have had to weigh up before this story was written. Jed at 3.18pm on the day of the article’s publication wrote,
“…. Alisha died and it is very sad but she had put herself in that situation. She made her choice and unfortunately it didn’t pay off. Yes Gary has something to answer to but not all the blame can be on him.”
FOOTNOTE
Gerard McManus: The PM who fell to pride.
Maybe an obvious but none the less effective angle taken by McManus – judging a PM’s legacy by comparing it to the legacy created by one of his heroes who previously held the office.
The editorial GM seeds of doubt
An example of a good editorial, one that examines the issues which lay ahead on GM for our state administration.
The AP report Can Oprah help Obama?
The Presidential candidates of the two major US political parties are more aggressively using the Internet the reasoning is simple; voting in the US Presidential Election is voluntary. Voters need to be recruited to the cause.
The US politician’s use of celebrities in their campaigns falls into the same basket of reasoning. In the US there is some very interesting things happening in the campaigning as candidates who are running for their nomination do so against around eight competitors, so this together with their need to recruit voters, makes them more willing to use the Internet in appearingly more open democratic dialogue with their constituents than the Aussie pollies are. Some of these campaign tactics and events could improve our next election campaign.
So good on The Age for looking at the US election!
To find out some of what is happening in the US and how we could adapt their campaigning to Australian politics, you could read my 12000-word paper – ‘Interface or Propaganda Sheet?’
Think of this way, you’d probably be the second person to read it. You may enquire who was the first reader? Well that would be me!
We appropriated 'bush telegraph' from the yanks!
The Bush Telegraph of the broadband cable - Saturday December 1
Hello Diggers! (I think I appropriated this style of greeting from some other media. I will desist with it before it becomes irritating.)
I would like to start off by saying the breadth of Internet content, from as many styles of the media I am aware of, will be presented in the hope that whatever your profession, you will learn about the myriad of human voices that are out there in cyberspace, allowing you to think about the potential influence the human behaviour on the net may have on how your profession of endeavour develops in the near future.
I am not anti government, corporations, media conglomerates, advertisers, marketing people, technology firms or Internet developers. We all live in this rapidly developing new world together - and if only a handful of people from each field come across the resource I am building here & my input serves to open their eyes to ways they may improve their contribution in their profession - well my job would be a success.
I think most professionals from media related fields would agree with me, once one of your opponents does something innovative that is a minor or fundamental change to the approach in your industry - if it is successful - then in the quest to maintain your market share the rest of your profession will rapidly follow, whether this be through copying the idea or adapting it in new ways through different applications of the original idea.
You might find my approach to blogging - where I don't place the new post at the top of the page but continue a new entry down the blog entry - inconvenient, but the reasoning for doing so is thus
- It is an example of how an Internet user considers a technology and then adapts it for their own purpose.
- I don't really have a live audience, my objective here is to create a historical document, so that as I develop Internet projects & find interested parties - from whatever professions - I can refer them here & they can have a read of what I am about with my ideas laid out in sequential form as a professional in any field would build an argument as they write a paper, speech or essay.
You may rightly wonder why with my high aspirations I am on a blog and not have my own website? I decided to work within my own technological capacity. After approaching a couple of tech friends who both showed interest in the projects I discussed with them, due to their overload of work and social tech commitments in the busy pre-Christmas period, neither of them were able to build or offer IT support to a website.
While this initially frustrated me, as it turns out I am quite happy blogging because it suits one of my objectives, which is to bring more traditional literary activity into the Internet domain. Thinking about it, reading my blog is the same experience as reading on open book on the Internet; if you don't know an open book is a book which is free to read on the Internet, this practice came about as publishers thought it a good opportunity to publicise an author's work and it also serves the public by keeping a book which is out of print available to the public at all times. Here are two different approaches to open books - read in a web browser & as a PDF download.
And from blogging I am also learning more about blogging softwear, which will give me a better foundation as I move onto understanding html code when I build a website in the new year.
You may ask - "So what's his objective & how is he going to achieve it?" Take twenty minutes a day and I'll take you on a sojourn away from the mundane conformity that binds concerned and serious thinkers, who due to the realities of life must commit most of their hours to earning a salary. Rather than read an essay, I would suggest if you come across me, just read one daily entry at a time, this approach would fit into your schedule and give you time for some consideration of the material I offer.
Next Monday I will be speaking to a friend, who I met over the Internet, that has worked in tech research for over 30 years, so if you want a historical perspective on the development of the Internet & the issues which occur with the advent of new technology from development in the research lab to operation in the public sphere, I will provide an insight into his perspective in my next entry.
Anyway, my homepage is Melbourne's Age, due to also currently working on other projects, I will again give you some content from this publication. I won't offer intellectual analysis, I'm not about telling people what to think just providing them with the opportunity to consider media content, but just by placing some of the articles alongside each other, I would hope you would consider the different levels of intellectual content of some material on the Internet. And also as stand alone pieces these articles raise some of the issues that are of interest to Internet Advancement - after all, that's what I am about.
Exciting, defining times for women
Tila Tequila's got a lot of bottle and squirm
Facebook backflips on new ad system
Wi-Fi reaches out to cameras, music
Plus a heartening article from The Australian
Rudd on a mission for homeless
The Bush Telegraph of the broadband cable - Saturday December 1
Hello Diggers! (I think I appropriated this style of greeting from some other media. I will desist with it before it becomes irritating.)
I would like to start off by saying the breadth of Internet content, from as many styles of the media I am aware of, will be presented in the hope that whatever your profession, you will learn about the myriad of human voices that are out there in cyberspace, allowing you to think about the potential influence the human behaviour on the net may have on how your profession of endeavour develops in the near future.
I am not anti government, corporations, media conglomerates, advertisers, marketing people, technology firms or Internet developers. We all live in this rapidly developing new world together - and if only a handful of people from each field come across the resource I am building here & my input serves to open their eyes to ways they may improve their contribution in their profession - well my job would be a success.
I think most professionals from media related fields would agree with me, once one of your opponents does something innovative that is a minor or fundamental change to the approach in your industry - if it is successful - then in the quest to maintain your market share the rest of your profession will rapidly follow, whether this be through copying the idea or adapting it in new ways through different applications of the original idea.
You might find my approach to blogging - where I don't place the new post at the top of the page but continue a new entry down the blog entry - inconvenient, but the reasoning for doing so is thus
- It is an example of how an Internet user considers a technology and then adapts it for their own purpose.
- I don't really have a live audience, my objective here is to create a historical document, so that as I develop Internet projects & find interested parties - from whatever professions - I can refer them here & they can have a read of what I am about with my ideas laid out in sequential form as a professional in any field would build an argument as they write a paper, speech or essay.
You may rightly wonder why with my high aspirations I am on a blog and not have my own website? I decided to work within my own technological capacity. After approaching a couple of tech friends who both showed interest in the projects I discussed with them, due to their overload of work and social tech commitments in the busy pre-Christmas period, neither of them were able to build or offer IT support to a website.
While this initially frustrated me, as it turns out I am quite happy blogging because it suits one of my objectives, which is to bring more traditional literary activity into the Internet domain. Thinking about it, reading my blog is the same experience as reading on open book on the Internet; if you don't know an open book is a book which is free to read on the Internet, this practice came about as publishers thought it a good opportunity to publicise an author's work and it also serves the public by keeping a book which is out of print available to the public at all times. Here are two different approaches to open books - read in a web browser & as a PDF download.
And from blogging I am also learning more about blogging softwear, which will give me a better foundation as I move onto understanding html code when I build a website in the new year.
You may ask - "So what's his objective & how is he going to achieve it?" Take twenty minutes a day and I'll take you on a sojourn away from the mundane conformity that binds concerned and serious thinkers, who due to the realities of life must commit most of their hours to earning a salary. Rather than read an essay, I would suggest if you come across me, just read one daily entry at a time, this approach would fit into your schedule and give you time for some consideration of the material I offer.
Next Monday I will be speaking to a friend, who I met over the Internet, that has worked in tech research for over 30 years, so if you want a historical perspective on the development of the Internet & the issues which occur with the advent of new technology from development in the research lab to operation in the public sphere, I will provide an insight into his perspective in my next entry.
Anyway, my homepage is Melbourne's Age, due to also currently working on other projects, I will again give you some content from this publication. I won't offer intellectual analysis, I'm not about telling people what to think just providing them with the opportunity to consider media content, but just by placing some of the articles alongside each other, I would hope you would consider the different levels of intellectual content of some material on the Internet. And also as stand alone pieces these articles raise some of the issues that are of interest to Internet Advancement - after all, that's what I am about.
Exciting, defining times for women
Tila Tequila's got a lot of bottle and squirm
Facebook backflips on new ad system
Wi-Fi reaches out to cameras, music
Plus a heartening article from The Australian
Rudd on a mission for homeless
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