Epis­ode 3 (“Richard Nixon”): Play Now | Play in Popup | Down­load

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Ep. 3! From this week forth we give a quick shout-out of events nearby and around in the web-field that we con­sider inter­est­ing and poten­tially worth attend­ing on top of the nor­mal bag of news. Oth­er­wise we have a quick chat about the Face­book acquis­i­tion of Friend­Feed, the new Google Search (beta!) and a brief men­tion of this week’s über ‘wankism’: a web­site ded­ic­ated to chairs titled ‘chair whore’.

Pas­cal men­tions a short update: his site is live — check it out at klepas.org — and notes he wants to write a howto/review/info art­icle on using Jekyll from a designer’s per­spect­ive.
The main fea­ture this week con­cerns the recent lively topic of online news media, par­tic­u­larly revolving around Aus­tralian media baron Rupert Murdoch’s decision to alter his media conglomerate’s busi­ness online model from ad-driven to a pay-subscription model. We dis­cuss more in-depth the prob­lems that print media and online media out­lets are run­ning into as of late, par­tic­u­lar in mon­et­ising an online dis­sem­in­a­tion model some­how, and whether or not that will fly with today’s web-tuned audiences.

This week’s ‘fuck you’ goes to Sydney Morn­ing Her­ald (who get no link from me! –Andy) for includ­ing advert­ise­ments that play music upon page load. Mean­while, our ‘tip-of-the-cap’ to Mark Pesce, Pia Waugh and Sen­ator Kate Lundy who we are plan­ning an inter­view with to dis­cuss the awe­some work the two are doing in the open gov­ern­ment arena.

Other links in order of men­tion:
* as always mail us feed­back via arcwhite@arcwhite.org and klepas@klepas.org — we’d love to start a mail­bag.
* Cas­ual WSG Sydney meet­ing on 18:30, 13. August, Pump­h­ouse, Darling Har­bour, Sydney: http://webstandardsgroup.org/event/177.
* WSG Sydney meet­ing on 19. August http://webstandardsgroup.org/event/176 — 82 peeps already registered (free).
* Vis­ion Au. are run­ning two work­shops on web access­ib­il­ity 19–20., August, Mel­bourne: http://bit.ly/vision-au-a11y-1 & http://bit.ly/vision-au-a11y-2.
* Web Dir­ec­tions South ’09, Sydney: http://south09.webdirections.org/.
* Edge of the Web, Perth: http://www.edgeoftheweb.org.au/.
* Usab­il­ity eval­u­ation and train­ing work­shop in Can­berra, 01–02., Decem­ber : http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/evaluation-and-testing.html & http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/web-usability.html.
* For other web, design, and tech-related events in Aus­tralasian region sub­scribe to the WSG Announce mail­ing list: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/.
* Face­book acquires Friend­Feed: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/facebook-acquires-friendfeed/.
* New Google Search: http://www2.sandbox.google.com.
* For your weekly dose of über wank: http://chairwhore.blogspot.com.
* Pascal’s new site: http://klepas.org. [You’re such an atten­tion whore! –Andy]
* Again, Jekyll: http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/.
* Jason Santa Maria’s beau­ti­ful web­site: http://jasonsantamaria.com.

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