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		<title>Reflections, contemplations and shout-outs</title>
		<link>http://offthebeatblog.wordpress.com/2010/06/04/reflections-contemplations-and-shout-outs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Minear</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a month of endless thinking, fiddling and writing, the (Off) The Beat project has come to an end. This blog has been designed and constructed for my Net Communications class at Melbourne University, as an exercise in communicating online, and reflecting on and analysing the practices and theories of this art. So before (Off) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=offthebeatblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13294959&amp;post=127&amp;subd=offthebeatblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why comments matter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 13:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Minear</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Net Communications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geert Lovink]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nihilism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[participatory culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public sphere]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the long tail]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On the bottom of every post on (Off) The Beat is a comments section. I didn&#8217;t choose to put it there – that&#8217;s how the WordPress blogging platform functions. It&#8217;s systematically designed to allow for people to comment on the thoughts and ideas of others. And that&#8217;s a good thing, right? Well, Geert Lovink – [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=offthebeatblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13294959&amp;post=121&amp;subd=offthebeatblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The iPad – a media revolution?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 11:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Minear</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the sun rises in Australia tomorrow, so too does the dawn of a new media era. Well, that&#8217;s what Apple would like you to believe, as their much-ballyhooed iPad is released on our shores. Crowds are gathering around the nation, hoping to grab their own, despite question marks on availability after the tremendous demand [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=offthebeatblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13294959&amp;post=106&amp;subd=offthebeatblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rudd&#8217;s spin machine in election mode</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 11:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Minear</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Howard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Katharine Murphy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political advertising]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As this year&#8217;s Federal Election draws closer, advertisements from the major political parties will be coming thick and fast to a television near you. Every time you see one, it&#8217;s worth keeping in mind Katharine Murphy&#8217;s column on the National Times today. Her argument focuses on two advertisements from the Rudd Government, and how the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=offthebeatblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13294959&amp;post=108&amp;subd=offthebeatblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Designing information cool</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 07:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Minear</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Net Communications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aesthetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fonts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[minimalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[style]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web design]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What is the formal design of information cool? It&#8217;s a question posed by Alan Lui in his book, The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information. To be honest, there&#8217;s no strict answer. In the case of web design, there&#8217;s many well designed sites that are aesthetically pleasing, but we&#8217;re so used [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=offthebeatblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13294959&amp;post=78&amp;subd=offthebeatblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Copyright or copyleft?</title>
		<link>http://offthebeatblog.wordpress.com/2010/05/17/copyright-or-copyleft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 12:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Minear</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Net Communications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[copyright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creative Commons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media ownership]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Having worked as a freelance writer, creating and publishing (Off) The Beat has been a refreshingly different experience. I&#8217;m not just the writer – I&#8217;m my own editor, art designer, marketing manager and publisher. Rather than being paid to write an article, which then appears at the commercial discretion of others, I have complete control [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=offthebeatblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13294959&amp;post=72&amp;subd=offthebeatblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In football, loyalty and passion matter most</title>
		<link>http://offthebeatblog.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/in-football-loyalty-and-passion-matter-most/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 11:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Minear</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AFL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Norman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[football supporters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herald Sun]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richmond has been in the news for all the wrong reasons in 2010. Seven straight losses by an average of 62 points – that&#8217;s the worst start to a season by any team since 1955. And it&#8217;s not like the failure is uncommon for the Tigers. Since winning the flag in 1980, they&#8217;ve made just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=offthebeatblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13294959&amp;post=63&amp;subd=offthebeatblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kevin Rudd &#8220;morphs into Latham&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://offthebeatblog.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/kevin-rudd-morphs-into-latham/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 10:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Minear</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010 election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[7.30 Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carbon trading scheme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, maybe it wasn&#8217;t that bad. But Kevin Rudd dominated the headlines this week, having over-heated under the direct questioning of Kerry O&#8217;Brien, on the ABC&#8217;s 7.30 Report. Here&#8217;s how it played out: Rudd certainly lost his cool, and it&#8217;s not a good image for the Prime Minister, and he tries to right his government&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=offthebeatblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13294959&amp;post=57&amp;subd=offthebeatblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gillard versus the AEU</title>
		<link>http://offthebeatblog.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/gillard-versus-the-aeu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 02:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Minear</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AEU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media bias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAPLAN tests]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While Kevin Rudd is floundering away, under the stress of policy reversals and negative polling, Julia Gillard is only growing in stature. Her victory over the Australian Education Union, which backed down from their boycott of the NAPLAN tests last week, is just another example of Gillard&#8217;s fearless policy manoeuvring. The strength of her leadership [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=offthebeatblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13294959&amp;post=35&amp;subd=offthebeatblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rudd&#8217;s climate change &#8220;backflip&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://offthebeatblog.wordpress.com/2010/05/04/rudds-climate-change-backflip/</link>
		<comments>http://offthebeatblog.wordpress.com/2010/05/04/rudds-climate-change-backflip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 07:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Minear</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[7.30 Report]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A quick follow-up to the column published yesterday, on Kevin Rudd&#8217;s policy backflips that are undermining his credibility in the face of this year&#8217;s election. This story appeared on the ABC&#8217;s 7.30 Report last week, and paints a startling picture of Rudd&#8217;s decision to delay the government&#8217;s carbon trading scheme until 2012. Watching Rudd&#8217;s transformation, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=offthebeatblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13294959&amp;post=30&amp;subd=offthebeatblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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