Watch this space...

Well I've been too too slack here at Mediation Like A Fox the past few months, but that's about to change! I've finished my coursework now, so I'll have a lot more time to focus on this blog. I have a few new media opportunities popping up in the coming weeks/months, so hopefully I'll be inspired by some of the social media happenings I see around.

I've recently written an essay for uni about Mad Men, and also one about Google. If you haven't heard of Mad Men, how's life under the rock? If you haven't heard of Google, how are you reading this?

Over the next few days I'll be posting some of my musings on Mad Men's third season, inspired by my essay.  The Google one I also hope to adapt to a blog post, but I have to check out some things with it first, so that might take a bit longer.

I hope to get a few more readers, I'll be posting a lot more and be promoting the blog on Twitter and Facebook and things.

Bring on the summer!

New look

I've had a makeover! And by me I mean this blog. What used to be 'Publishing Like a Fox' is now 'Mediation Like a Fox' and the blog is up and running. Woo hoo! Basically I've wanted to get a blog about media and pop culture up and running for a long time, so I will use the blog already started to get going on some new, fresh content. Its going to be less about web publishing (although I may still have stuff to say about that) and more about new media and culture.

I'll write about issues in media like digital media, journalism, politics, tech news, new online social movements, film, TV, music, fandom, websites and online media, memes, subculture, audiences, publishing, copyright, ecommerce, current affairs...really anything that takes my fancy. All of these issues interest me, and all of them can be connected and fall under the wide banner of media and culture (which are almost the same thing, some might suggest). Who knows, I may even dabble in some review writing if I feel so inclined.

I feel the most important thing about this blog is that I find a voice and carve out a position for myself on the interwebs. I feel I have things to say, and I want to say them. It is too early to really know the true direction or form this blog will take. The important thing is that I want write something that is interesting, relevant and above all enjoyable.

So I hope readers enjoy this. I'm really looking forward to getting right into it, I plan on making time to post on average once a day about something, even if it's a small post.

So...

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Wow, Obama chooses judge who knows stuff

This Wired article about new Spreme Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor is interesting, as it runs through her experience with cyberlaw. Looks like she knows more than this judge.

Our website, MelbinNoir, is coming along. I figured out how to utilise the Headline and Feature section, and the category browsing, so that's good. I'm a bit nervous about the pitch this afternoon, but it should be ok I suppose.

Looking at the other groups' sites, Chocrocks and UpUrAlley, and I'm pretty impressed. Its looking really good. I like the Chocrock graphic, and how the site seems to be all things chocolate, not just a directory. And I like how UpUrAlley have the 'new to the site' thing, which we've not figured out yet. I'm looking at some 'login-log out' plugins at the moment for Noir.

I was talking to my friend who is a jazz muso, and he didn't like the name of our site, he didn't get the MelbIN thing. I'm worried this might be a problem. Still getting the hang of the categories too, at this stage the front page menu is not discrete enough yet, there needs to be a better way of filtering the categories.

Linky goodness

I quite liked this article at the Inquisitr responding to Nick Cohen saying the BBC is more trustworthy than bloggers. Haha, good one Cohen. And one I should probably use: Wired's Eliot Van Buskirk reported on a new Mac OS App called 'SelfControl' that blocks your access to "time wasing" computer activities like checking emails, Twitter and Facebook. There's probably a whole post in there somewhere about snobbery and social networking, what constitutes 'real' behaviour and what is just 'silly online stuff', but I'm sure you've heard enough out of me.

It begins...

Hi there, So this is my new blog for the Advanced Editing for Digital Media class for my Masters in Global Media Communications at Melbourne Uni (semester 1).

I've never used WordPress before, so bear with me, gentle readers, as I navigate and edit my way through this new platform.  I had a Blogger blog a few years ago, filled it with content on boys and...other stuff I can't remember. But I got bored of it. I also decided to start a blog about online film fans called Fandomonia, but that never got off the ground.

I always felt that I was held back by my lack of HTML skills to really get my blog to be what I wanted it to be. Hopefully this semester I'll learn some more and be able to edit it much more freely.

Anyway, thanks for reading. I promise (sorta) that further writings will be a little more interesting.