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This article in the Guardian was flagged on nettime: more evidence that filesharing does not impact CD sales in the way that the music industry claims it does. My favourite quote from the article is that the net effect of filesharing on sales is "indistinguishable from zero". Music industry ideologues take note.

I participated in a show on blogging on ABC Radio National this evening - Australia Talks Back with Sandy McCutcheon.

I posted the announcement for the Global PR Blog Week a little while ago. Now the site is live...

I've been artistically enhanced, by my friend Brad. Sharing it with the world here... Apparently this was done from a recent photo using all manner of clever methods. I feel a little like Homer Simpson discovering his face on a Japanese detergent package.

Almost hidden away in an issue which is first and foremost on "Journalism and Black America", this issue of the Nieman Reports also contains a section on "Blogging and Journalism". More reading... Got to start writing, got to start writing.

Gathering some more information about the Semantic Web idea. These links are from Clay Shirky's very critical article on the topic: a Scientific American article by Tim Berners-Lee et al. which is one of the key publications on the topic, an excerpt from Berners-Lee's book Weaving the Web, and the Semantic Web Roadmap at the W3C.

This from Trevor Cook:

I've been busy organising this inaugural event to be held from 12 - 16 July

The purpose of the week is to focus on some key issues and attract attention to the emerging role of PR bloggers in developing and spreading knowledge about public relations. Often decried as a secretive profession we want to share our knowledge with everyone and encourage a better understanding of the contribution we make to our societies

I've long maintained that the Internet is not virtual. Now it turns out that the 'real' world is becoming hyperlinked...

The latest dispatch from the filesharing frontlines - interesting reading. As predicted, movie filesharing is now joining music, and legal actions or legal services have little impact so far. Interesting to see the IFPI CEO say that "of course, over the longer term we expect a steady fall in illegal file-sharing; something we've already seen happen since the RIAA announced lawsuits early 2003" - wonder what makes him believe in that 'steady fall', since so far there's no indication of it whatsoever.

Finally worked my way through the very useful report We Media by Shayne Bowman and Chris Willis at the Media Center at the American Press Institute. A good overview of what they term participatory journalism, with many connections to my own research. From this report, several further references also need investigation: