Invitation to Sprint on Internet Security #now #journalism #security #geekgirl

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Invitation to Sprint on Internet Security
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Basic Internet Security Book Sprint
April 28  – May 1 (2300 CET)
Open to anyone remote or real space (Berlin).

Help us write an introductory book on Internet Security!

Greenhost.nl have brought their staff to Berlin for a Book Sprint on Internet Security. It’s intended as a basic introduction and giving some attention to the needs of journalists.

The topics include Email Security, Browser Security, Personal Data Security, VPN, & Mobile Security. The sprint is happening right now and finishes Sunday May 1. You are invited to contribute and help write the book. Contributions can include any of the following :
* read the material and give us feedback (chat active on the edit page)
* write chapters or parts of chapters
* proof read
* provide illustrations
* add extra chapters / sections (discuss this with us in chat first
* technical checks
* language checks
* any other way you want

Contribute here:
http://booki.flossmanuals.net/basic-internet-security/edit/

We will be there waiting! If you wish to attend in real space (Berlin) please contact Adam Hyde : adam@flossmanuals.net
Thanks to Buro 2.0 for providing the venue for this sprint (http://www.buero20.org/).

Sprint facilitated by Adam Hyde.

2010 Emerging Writers Festival – Friday 21 – Sunday 30 May #Melbourne

Venues: The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas Melbourne Town Hall ● State Library of Victoria ● City Library ●Federation Square  

Bookings:  www.emergingwritersfestival.org.au

New Festival Director Lisa Dempster is thrilled to announce the the program for the 2010 Emerging Writers’ Festival, Australia’s only literary event dedicated to writers of all ages and styles.

2009 saw 6000 people attend the festival’s 15 sell out events with 300 writers, performers, publishers and mentors contributing to the event. In 2010, the EWF will double in size, curating 30 events and featuring 350 writers and artists as the festival stretches the definition of writing styles to include song writing, copywriting, poetry, prose fiction, comedy, writing for video games, journalism, screenwriting, theatre, experimental writing forms, memoir, blogging, opinion, comic writing and more.

2010 Emerging Writers Festival highlights will include:

First word – BMW Edge Theatre, Federation Square, 7.30pm, Friday 21 May
The Emerging Writers’ Festival burst into life by presenting the best of the festival – exciting new works by emerging writers, a Call to Arms by romantic fiction writer Toni Jordan, and a comic debate asking  ‘Love Vs Angst – what makes a better writer?’ Come and feel the love!

Zine Bus – various locations, 11am to 5pm Saturday 29 May NEW EVENT 
All aboard the world’s first mobile zine fair! Travelling the streets of Melbourne and culminating in a guerrilla zine market  at Federation Square, the zine bus will be fully stocked with independent emerging zines, with the most innovative displays of art, creativity and DIY ever to take to the streets!

Twitterfest – twitter.com/emergingwriters – May 24 – 28 , 2pm daily  NEW EVENT
Taking the Emerging Writers’ Festival to the world. Daily throughout the festival, Twitterfest will host discussions and interview writers… on Twitter! It’s social media mixed with literary debate – jump online to join the discussion. Hosted by writers from across Australia.

Wordstock – BMW Edge – 7.30pm Thurs 27 May
New work inspired by the songs of AC/DC. With songs, comedy, short plays and performance pieces, rock n roll will be given a different sort of spotlight. A one night only event and a performance highlight of the Emerging Writers’ Festival, Wordstock will reveals a whole new side of AC/DC. It will blow your mind (like dynamite.)  Hosted by iconic Melbourne rocker Clem Bastow.

You Can’t Stop The Musing: Disco Lecture – Horse Bazaar, 397 Little Lonsdale St Tues 25 May, 6pm NEW EVENT
Everybody knows disco is fun. But is it good for you? Now that Disco is back (trust us, it is), the time has come to determine, once and for all, whether it’s part of the problem or part of the solution. *Triple J’s Craig Schuftan *presents the case for and against in You Can’t Stop the Musing – the world’s first Disco-lecture. Expect to hear from The Silver convention, The Chic Organisation and the Frankfurt School

48-hour play generator – Malthouse Theatre – 5.30pm, Sunday 24 May
Six (somewhat) rehearsed readings. Six emerging playwrights are given just two days to write a new play each. Teamed with an established director and team of actors, the results are presented on a Sunday evening of madcap and totally raw theatre. Previous 48 hour plays have developed into full length works.

In the Pub series – 26 May 7.30pm, The Workers Club Fitzroy
I Write What I Want, When I Want. We lift the shroud on the mystery of freelance writing. Our freelance experts talk about their journeys as freelancers, the ups and downs as well as their secrets to success. From journalism to comedy, our panellists will entertain and enlighten. Panellists: Chris Flynn, Ben Pobjie and more. Hosted by Joanna Brookfield. 

The Page Parlour – The Atrium @ Federation Square, 12 to 5pm, Sunday 23 May
Featuring over forty stalls selling everything from posters to books, literary journals to hand-crafted stories – all the good stuff that you won’t find in Borders. The Page Parlour is an independent press fair gathering the undiscovered, the underground, the obscure and the amazing all in one convenient market location.

Town Hall Program – Melbourne Town Hall, 9am to 5pm, May 29 – 30
A range of panels, interviews and conversations about the art, craft and business of being a writer.. Covers all styles of writing, from prose fiction, to song writing, theatre, video games, copywriting, poetry, comedy and more! Guests include: Michi Girl, Guy Blackman, Benjamin Law, Patrick Cullen, Jill Jones, Sean Riley, Julian Shaw, Katherine Charles, Declan Fay, Tom Taylor, Mel Campbell, Jeff Sparrow, Steph Bowe, Jan Sardi, and many, many more!

Oooh in for a treat. The great journalist Chris Masters will present Investigative Journalism: Why we need it. #Melbourne

I’ve always been a fan of Chris Masters. The dude has integrity and he was always willing in my under-grad years to lend advise and inspire wannabe journos like myself.

Investigative Journalism:
Why we need it.
Why it is endangered.
Fri 11 December, 2009
Iwaki Auditorium, ABC Southbank, Melbourne
Meeting 6.45 for 7.00 pm start
Guest Speaker 8.00pm
Click here for more on Chris Masters

Rupert Murdoch is set to charge online readers for news content – but how do you make people part with their money?

Cash for clicks – Kevin Anderson asks what can be learned from the music, video and games industries.

With the recession cutting into profits at News Corp, Rupert Murdoch (sic) has had a change of heart about charging for content online. In 2005, he predicted that the future of content on the internet would be driven by advertising. Now, he believes that if people want their news online, they will have to pay for it.

More people than ever are reading news on the internet, but organisations have yet to find a way to translate those huge audiences into the kind of revenues they had in print. A handful of newspapers, most of them financial papers such as the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal, have instituted digital subscriptions – it is as yet undetermined whether the FT’s introduction of a pay-per-view model next summer will replace or exist in conjunction with its subscription service – and the New York Times charges per article for premium content in its archives. But the planned standalone Sunday Times site will be a trial run for general news providers – and with the advertising market dropping, Murdoch is not alone in looking to charge for online content.

But to what extent are users prepared to pay for it? Music, television and film studios, along with newspapers and magazines, are looking for ways to generate revenue from the web. While some consumers seem prepared to pay for premium content and convenience, most industries still haven’t found the magic formula to convince enough of them to do so. Are there any lessons that the various media can learn from one another?

More from The Guardian

More leg room in Club Class journalism

Written by Jonathan Este for nojournos.no news.

Murdoch as Machiavelli – it’s not the first time this trope has reared its head in the commentariat and I’ll bet your bottom dollar it won’t be the last.

The latest theory is that Murdoch’s enthusiasm for charging for content (let’s discard “pay wall” as misleading) is all about promoting his print products. He spent $1.3 billion a couple of year ago on three “cathedrals of print” (modern, worker-free printing presses) and all the bluster about having to charge for content online is a rearguard action to encourage more people to read the “dead-tree” option.

I really don’t buy this. I think Murdoch is merely reacting to the same social and market forces that are driving every other newspaper publisher in the developed world to consider the same thing: people are increasingly moving online, a move that is particularly marked among younger consumers.

More from nojournos

Journalism experiment

A team of journalists and educators based at Melbourne’s Swinburne University is preparing to launch the Foundation for Public Interest Journalism, which aims to experiment with new ways of delivering journalism in the new media world. The Foundation is now calling for nominations to the board and aims to be up and running by the end of the year.

Interestingly Margaret Simons one of the founders of the group states:

“The foundation will support investigative, interactive journalism while exploring ways of making good journalism sustainable in the new media age.

It will fund worthy journalism projects initiated by either members of the public or practising journalists, and is likely to incorporate approaches from similar projects overseas, such as www.spot.us”

GG note: Good luck to Margaret. I can’t imagine anyone sponsoring local news stories unless they are exclusive and have an element of high drama. Afterall, isn’t that why pundits buy news in the first place? Spot.us doesn’t seem to be the best example of a successful alternative media model, but I would be interested to see others…

You can read the rest of the piece at Margaret Simon’s Public Interest Journalism Blog.

Jimmy McDonough at Mu-Mesons

Friday 29th May (2009) An Audience with Jimmy McDonough – “The Literary Terminator”

Jimmy McDonough is a renowned and slightly infamous American journalist and biographer whose credits include biographies of Russ Meyer (Big Bosoms & Square Jaws), Neil Young (Shakey), Andy Milligan (The Ghastly One) and more recently Tammy Wynette (Tragic Country Queen). Not only is he a superb and insightful writer but also an amazing raconteur – possibly the most entertaining you will ever hear! Spend an incredible night with Jimmy at the Archives as he recalls tales of Andy Milligan, the strange obsessions of Neil Young and the domestic mayhem of Tammy Wynette and George Jones – and that’s just for starters! With film clips to illustrate this evening that should not be missed by anybody with a love of the American cultural underbelly.

Mu-Meson Archives Doors 7.30 for 8pm start $15

Mu-Meson Archives at Crn Parramatta Rd & Trafalgar St Annandale (Sydney) at the end of King Furniture building up the steel staircase. Phone (02) 9517-2010

For More extensive and detailed information please visit Mu-Meson Archives web site http://www.mumeson.org

Jay Rosen’s Flying Seminar

Jay Rosen provides “a kind of flying seminar on the future of news, presented in real time” here where he posts links, with commentary, to best essays on new news models.

Excerpt: As the crisis in newspaper journalism grinds on, people watching it are trying to explain how we got here, and what we’re losing as part of the newspaper economy crashes. Some are trying to imagine a new news system. I try to follow this action, and have been sending around the best of these pieces via my Twitter feed. It’s part of my experiment in mindcasting, which you can read.

Twitter switch for Guardian, after 188 years of ink

• Newspaper to be available only on messaging service
• Experts say any story can be told in 140 characters

“Consolidating its position at the cutting edge of new media technology, the Guardian has announced that it will become the first newspaper in the world to be published exclusively via Twitter, the sensationally popular social networking service that has transformed online communication.

The move, described as “epochal” by media commentators, will see all Guardian content tailored to fit the format of Twitter’s brief text messages, known as “tweets”, which are limited to 140 characters each. Boosted by the involvement of celebrity “twitterers”, such as Madonna, Britney Spears and Stephen Fry, Twitter’s profile has surged in recent months, attracting more than 5m users who send, read and reply to tweets via the web or their mobile phones.

As a Twitter-only publication, the Guardian will be able to harness the unprecedented newsgathering power of the service, demonstrated recently when a passenger on a plane that crashed outside Denver was able to send real-time updates on the story as it developed, as did those witnessing an emergency landing on New York’s Hudson River. It has also radically democratised news publishing, enabling anyone with an internet connection to tell the world when they are feeling sad, or thinking about having a cup of tea”.

(sic)

Currently, 17.8% of all Twitter traffic in the United Kingdom consists of status updates from Stephen Fry, whose reliably jolly tone, whether trapped in a lift or eating a scrumptious tart, has won him thousands of fans. A further 11% is made up of his 363,000 followers replying “@stephenfry LOL!”, “@stephenfry EXACTLY the same thing happened to me”, and “@stephenfry Meanwhile, I am making myself an omelette! Delicious!”

More – from the Guardian