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BlogCampaigning: Movin’ On Up

By Parker Mason | Published: February 3, 2010
Congrats to a few members of the BlogCampaigning crew: The official notice of Heather Morrison’s new position at Sequentia Environics went out (over the newswire, no less) last week, saying that she’ll “supervise the daily operations and performances of client service teams.” A good move indeed; Sequentia is  a digital communications firm that “focuses on the [...]
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RSS Problems in Wordpress

By Parker Mason | Published: February 1, 2010
Last week, I realized that there was an error with BlogCampaigning’s RSS feed. Although some feedreaders were still able to grab the content, others were getting XML Parsing Errors. As I often do when I get a warning message I don’t quite understand, I Google it. Chances are, someone else has had the same problem as [...]
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The Bottom-up Perspective and Public Relations

By Parker Mason | Published: December 9, 2009
Over the past few months, I’ve really come to enjoy reading Timothy B. Lee’s blog. The computer programmer, writer and think-tank worker bee is now pursuing a PhD in computer science, and is blogging his thoughts about “bottom-up” thinking. What is bottom-up thinking? Its not something racy, nor is it about chugging beer. As Tim says: “I’m convinced [...]
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BlogCampaigning Is Back (Again)

By Parker Mason | Published: December 4, 2009
I think that anyone who has been blogging for a significant amount of time understands the concept of blog fatigue. You get tired thinking up new posts all the time; you wonder where it is all leading. It has happened to me a few times. In fact, when I first started to write the title to [...]
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Left 4 Dead in the Aussie Censorship System

By Jens | Published: September 21, 2009
It looks like Left 4 Dead 2 has been banned in Australia. The reason: [C]lose in attacks cause copious amounts of blood spray and splatter, decapitations and limb dismemberment as well as locational damage where contact is made to the enemy which may reveal skeletal bits and gore. This was not deemed suitable for 15-year-olds. Despite the [...]
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Some Thoughts on Changing Media

By Jens | Published: June 1, 2009
On the weekend I met two former Australian lecturers of mine – Jason Nelson and Ben (whose last name neither Parker nor I can remember) – when the conversation turned to the demise of newspapers. Ben’s argument was that they probably would stay around, after all we’re still listening to the radio. Something about that [...]
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Kiwi Government Censor: Prosecute Parents Who Give Violent Games to Kids

By Jens | Published: May 31, 2009
What’s up with the other end of the world all of a sudden? First Australia plans to spend millions of dollars on an inane net fiter that is perfectly suited to censor free speech and would make one of the slowest internets of the Western world even slower; then New Zealand contemplates to introduce a [...]
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Game Developers are Just Like Musicians – An Australian Example

By Jens | Published: May 28, 2009
A little follow-up to Parkers post about independent game development. Last week I attended the Dissecta talk at the State Library of Victoria. Damian Scott, founder and CEO of Primal Clarity, gave an insight into the scope and potential that the Australian independent game scene has to offer. Primal Clarity are currently working on Imperial League, [...]
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Back to Down Under

By Jens | Published: May 28, 2009
I’m on my way Australia again. After a twelve hour flight from Frankfurt I currently get to spend some time on the Singapore airport, getting ready for another nine hours of flying. So what brings me to the antipodes? Mainly research for my Ph.D. (which, I might add, is financially supported by the German Academic Exchange [...]
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Discrimination? Blame your Genes

By Jens | Published: May 26, 2009
Bad genes? Too bad. In what is possibly the world’s first case of gene discrimination, Australians were refused insurance because their genetic heritage looked like it could potentially cost insurance companies a lot of money. When I read stuff like this I get the feeling that the future really has begun. Where’s my hovercar?! -Jens
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