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Early this year, I started volunteering at a community computer centre in inner-city Sydney where local kids can drop in on Saturday mornings to surf the Internet, create videos and websites, take digital photos, listen to and make music and meet other kids and volunteers. The most popular activity by far, however, is playing computer games and as a result of volunteering there, I’ve become aware of an interesting debate about the positive and negative influence of gaming.

After reading the article Games ‘deserve a place in class’ on BBC World Edition: Technology recently as well as an article in the Sydney Morning Herald, I was motivated to write a few of my own observations on the topic from Saturday mornings.
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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 »