And now for something completely different. Thursday, 3 November 2011.

Is a great Australian example of investigative journalism. Investigative journalism is finding, reporting and presenting news which other people try to hide. It is very similar to standard news reporting, except that the people at the centre of the story will usually not help you and may even try to stop you doing your job. 1 Critical and thorough journalism.

Tuesday, July 24, 2012. INFS1300 Week 1 - Early visionaries. The first two lectures are about exploring the Web is important to situate the view of the web today within the visions and seminal ideas of those whose work led to its development. Establish a time-sharing network, lead to ARPANet. There are several different networks. Passing messages from runner to runner.

Friday, 15 June 2012. So for the final lecture, those of us who came would know we had a guest speaker, Steve Molks, who runs his own blog. Anyway, he gave us some helpful tips about starting up, being true to yourself, following your dream, all the usual junk. Start developing your style now.

After one semester of studying journalism, actually just half a semester as two of my subjects were business management subjects, I already feel like a better journalist than when I started. If something is happening locally, it may be happening elsewhere as well. Advertisers are the real customers of commercial media. The journalist must be an active participant, and make a substantial effort to get the whole sto.