Unions not only have a legal obligation to respect copyright, but an ethical obligation. Unions have fought for intellectual property rights for photographers for years. Respecting copyright doesn’t mean kowtowing to Disney. It means not using photos from the Internet without permission of the owner. I mention this as a “pro-tip” because I have often [...]
Research conducted by Swinburne Universityprofessor Dr Rajesh Vasa and internet firm MailGuard into social media habits of 50,000 workers has revealed that the average worker spends between 30 to 60 minutes online for personal reasons each day. While other studies have drawn on consumer data and qualitative research, this is the first to scrutinise individual [...]
Tony Abbott has used his “direct action” plan as the counterpoint to Labor’s carbon price plan. Apart from the obvious purpose of “direct action” being Abbott’s desire to directly transfer hundreds of millions of dollars of public funds to private hands, his proposal should fail the “common sense” test. Climate change is like a fire [...]
The “Commitment and Consistency Principle” is what psychologists have termed the desire in people to keep their thoughts consistent with their actions. Once a person has behaved in a certain way, they start to adjust their thoughts to be consistent with their behaviour. In the 2004 US election, the Bush-Cheney campaign used this principle to [...]
I’ve written about why nuclear energy is not appropriate for Australia. Nuclear energy is unsafe. It turns already dangerous, stressful disasters into atomic catastrophes. We are now learning just how catastrophic. Food exports could be halted from areas near the Fukishima nuclear plant if tests find further contamination. The tainted milk was found 30km from [...]
Nora Ephron, an American director and journalist, describes her early journalism professor setting an assignment for the class. He asked them to write a lead for their student paper. The lead is the first sentence in a news article – it captures the attention of the reader and sums up the focus of the story. [...]
Do you have goals for your union’s website? If you’re anything like most unions, probably not. Or, more accurately, your website’s goals are probably ambigious or vague. “Provide information to members” or “an online repository of union resources” or “a way for potential members to join online”. Sound familiar? Whereas most unions would be comfortable [...]
Clay Shirky, a Professor of New Media at New York University, has penned a fascinating article in the Foreign Affairs magazine about the political power of social media and its role in facilitating political change. This article is exceptionally interesting for anyone interested in the role of social media in the real world, and Prof. [...]
Michael Rowland on ABC News Breakfast asked a special advisor to President Obama on their stimulus spending “what advice would you have for Australia?” The answer: something along the lines of: “I wouldn’t want to tell a country that has such low unemployment how to do things.” Journalist pro-tip: realise that in the international community, [...]
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