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I’m a member of the Digital Divide Network Discussion Forum Listserv and the last few posts on the list have been about civiblogging or civic community journalism and its potential for providing alternatives to mainstream media, disseminating information and knowledge and allowing a wider range of voices to be heard. For more details, read the post titled multimedia blogging from the DNC in Boston.

The discussion was pertinent to a blogging experience I witnessed yesterday. My friend, Amit, writes a great blog about web standards, accessibility, digital photography and a bit more at Karmakars.com. He utilises a service on his website from a HUGE global internet company. It so happened that he had written a couple of entries about this HUGE global internet company over the past few months. Yesterday, the HUGE global internet company asked him to remove the blog entries from his site. One of these entries, in my opinion, did not breach any of the conditions of the service he utilises from the company, was not critical and constituted merely some personal meanderings about his own use of the service. Read more »

It has always been a strong desire of mine to write fiction. Until my later years of high school I wrote quite a lot, even managing to complete a story of a few hundred pages in Year 10. It took about a year to type out on an electric typewriter, in between studying for school.

Since then, I have always thought I would come back to writing and envisioned myself becoming a writer later in life. There has also always been an element of fear that I would not come back to writing and thus would not fulfil one of my biggest dreams. Read more »

I volunteer on Saturday mornings at a community computer centre in Redfern, Sydney. The group is called Redfern Kids Connect and kids from the area drop in to play on the computers and interact with each other and with volunteers between 9am - 1pm. Many of the kids come from indigenous backgrounds and go to school or live nearby. The Redfern/Waterloo area has been troubled over the years with social issues like drugs and crime, racial tensions, unemployment and other problems.

Each week at RKC there are about 5-8 volunteers who help the kids out with computer skills and supervise activities like playing games, making videos, taking digital photos and recording music. Read more »