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Cruising the FjordsI'm spending this week at ISEA2004, the International Symposium on the Electronic Arts. This is one of the more unusual conferences I've been too - it's held in Tallinn and Helsinki as well as on a cruise liner between Stockholm and Tallinn. So, this blog entry comes to you courtesy of the fine folks of ISEA and Silja Lines who have set up a wireless network on the ship (we're currently somewhere between Stockholm and Mariehamn)! I've just completed a panel on list culture which Melinda Rackham of Empyre kindly invited me along to (to speak …

Virtual Nation: The Internet in Australia, a book I've contributed to, is now available from UNSW Press. A preview of my chapter is also online in my publications section on this site.

This article in the Guardian was flagged on nettime: more evidence that filesharing does not impact CD sales in the way that the music industry claims it does. My favourite quote from the article is that the net effect of filesharing on sales is "indistinguishable from zero". Music industry ideologues take note.

I participated in a show on blogging on ABC Radio National this evening - Australia Talks Back with Sandy McCutcheon.

I posted the announcement for the Global PR Blog Week a little while ago. Now the site is live...

I've been artistically enhanced, by my friend Brad. Sharing it with the world here... Apparently this was done from a recent photo using all manner of clever methods. I feel a little like Homer Simpson discovering his face on a Japanese detergent package.

Almost hidden away in an issue which is first and foremost on "Journalism and Black America", this issue of the Nieman Reports also contains a section on "Blogging and Journalism". More reading... Got to start writing, got to start writing.

Gathering some more information about the Semantic Web idea. These links are from Clay Shirky's very critical article on the topic: a Scientific American article by Tim Berners-Lee et al. which is one of the key publications on the topic, an excerpt from Berners-Lee's book Weaving the Web, and the Semantic Web Roadmap at the W3C.

This from Trevor Cook:

I've been busy organising this inaugural event to be held from 12 - 16 July

The purpose of the week is to focus on some key issues and attract attention to the emerging role of PR bloggers in developing and spreading knowledge about public relations. Often decried as a secretive profession we want to share our knowledge with everyone and encourage a better understanding of the contribution we make to our societies

I've long maintained that the Internet is not virtual. Now it turns out that the 'real' world is becoming hyperlinked...