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• Conroy backs down on internet filter

  By tigtog on 2012-11-09 • ( 20 )

  

  It’s good to see Stephen Conroy finally face the facts: his filter proposal was about as clever as equipping a blue whale to pursue a vulture.

• Whimsy: Ook! Ook? Where is the Librarian?

  By tigtog on 2012-11-07 • ( 23 )

  

  Please share anything that has recently surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you: think of these threads as a brain-bleach repository.

• The 54th Down Under Feminists Carnival is up!

  By Chally on 2012-11-05

  

  All the details on the latest edition, and how to submit to the next one!

• Media Circus: 1st Tuesday in November edition

  By tigtog on 2012-11-05 • ( 33 )

  

  Racing around the track in Melbourne and to the polls in the USA, Budget projections, the expanding Jimmy Savile investigation and more. What else has piqued your media interests lately?

• Toxic culture in university colleges

  By tigtog on 2012-11-04 • ( 57 )

  

  A 2009 post from Mary (almost exactly three years ago) is getting a lot of hits today, and I’m deducing that it’s because of searching on St Johns college at the University of Sydney due to this SMH story: Culture of anarchy at a college in crisis.

• Argument is the human condition, but public argument is not (until the Internet arrived)

  By tigtog on 2012-11-04 • ( 2 )

  

  A fascinating long post from Clay Shirky on the information age’s transformation of the media landscape, via @Colvinius who referenced it as part of his 2012 Andrew Olle Media Lecture.

• Bananas in Pyjamas teaching you to like ‘bad boys’ and clean up all their mess

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-11-03 • ( 21 )

  

  File this one under: Don’t let your cranky, feminist mother watch your TV shows. So, my three year old son was watching an episode (‘Super Bear’) of the Australian children’s show, Bananas in Pyjamas the other day and I walked… Read More ›

• Otterday! And Open Thread.

  By lauredhel on 2012-11-03 • ( 35 )

  Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires. Anything great happening in your life? Anything you want to get off your chest? Books? News stories? What have you created lately? Commiserations, felicitations, temptations, contemplations, speculations?

• Is Australia more feminist?

  By hatbluemilk on 2012-11-01 • ( 12 )

  

  The Australian prime minister Julia Gillard’s labelling of the leader of the opposition, Tony Abbott, a “misogynist” has become the focus of intense debate both in Australia and here in the UK. What has been most striking for me is… Read More ›

• Whimsy

  By Mindy on 2012-11-01 • ( 6 )

  

  Please share anything that has recently surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you: think of these threads as a brain-bleach repository.

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