A great Melbourne-based blog by a young writer, Literary Minded, has now become an important read about literary happenings in Australia and beyond. I met the writer in Melbourne over the weekend and she’s a highly engaged woman with a love of unconventional thoughts on books and new media (and it was obvious who she…
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It’s clear who we should trust
I’ve spent the last days at the Melbourne Writer’s Festival, listening to speakers from around the world and talking about my new book, The Blogging Revolution. One of Australia’s finest bloggers, John Quiggin, with whom I spoke last week, explained to his readers the ways in which blogging and new technology is finally challenging the…
The other side of the gender divide
Human rights for women in Saudi Arabia – and no, that’s not a contradiction – through blogger’s eyes.
The Independent Weekly examines Blogging book
The following book review of The Blogging Revolution, in Adelaide’s Independent Weekly, was published by Kate Lockett on August 29: Did you know that Iran has around one million bloggers, that Farsi is in the top five languages used on the internet or that 20 per cent of Saudi Arabians are now online? Australian journalist…
How web rights are coming
My new book, The Blogging Revolution, is officially released on September 1. Over the coming weeks and months there will be extensive coverage and discussion both here in Australia and internationally (all of it covered on this site and the book’s website). As a great start, here’s a post from Harvard University’s Berkman Centre for…
1984 24/7
George Orwell, my favourite author, has had his diaries placed on a blog. According to Jean Seaton, a professor at the University of Westminster in London who administers the Orwell writing prize and thought up the idea of the blog, “I think he would have been a blogger.”
Together we stand
This is the only kind of solidarity against web censorship that can pressure governments to re-consider their authoritarian ways: Turkish bloggers are closing their websites to protest against courts banning dozens of mainstream sites for carrying content deemed “immoral” or insulting to Turkey’s founding father. A grassroots “censuring the censors” movement has formed over the…
What does winning mean?
Michael Moore talks about his new book, the US election and the importance of humour when causing trouble:
The Blogging Revolution lands
My following essay appears in today’s Weekend Australian newspaper: The young online tribe is more interested in discussing sex, drugs and rock’n’roll than political revolution, writes Antony Loewenstein Early last month, some Iranian members of parliament voted to debate a draft bill that aimed to “toughen punishment for disturbing mental security in society” by adding…
