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Greetings from China!

Monday, May 31st, 2010

This postcard has just arrived from Mitch van Grieken who’s currently living in Chuxiong, Yunnan province…

Day in the Life photos (more…)

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Your online identity – add your pic!

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

Hi, Antony Here…

In conjunction with Desta Itote’s report on online identity, we’re keen to hear from you – and see you – at least the picture/pictures you choose to represent yourself online. Send us the strangest online avatar or image that you’ve used.

And feel free to tell us why you’ve chosen it.

Here’s an image I’ve used on  Facebook in the past, but in a case of do as I say not as I do, I’m going to squib on the explanation…

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So send us your photo or image and tell us why you use it.

 

Jessica Sciberras writes…

comment: Is a photo of myself standing on top of a toilet seat, awkwardly mopping up a shower leakage. My friend took this photo of my while we were holidaying in Europe, and I thought that it describes me better than words ever can: any form of domestic activity looks unnatural when I attempt it.

Jessica Sciberras

 

And on Twitter from Jacki Johnson (@jacki_johnson)…

comment: @RNFutureTense haven’t used any creative identities but did have funny little issue when followers from US thought I was the weather girl!

Jacki Johnson

 

And from Facebook Joy Keefe writes…

comment: This is one of my cocker spaniels. She’s much better looking in photos than me!
Joy Keefe'd dog

 

 

 

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Behind the scenes…

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Behind the scenes at Future Tense. Some photos for your enjoyment/amazement/puzzlement…

 

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Welcome to our humble abode

 

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We value your input

 

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Co-producer Andrew Davies hard at work

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Wall of masks - choose your mood!

 

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Technical operator Jim Ussher eating on the run

 

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Antony's desk

 

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Our modest mini-studio

 

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Editing on desktop

 

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Cramming for an interview

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Great BBC program on ‘profit with purpose’ businesses…

Monday, May 24th, 2010

 

 

Following up on our chat with Andrew Kuper about micro-insurance and ‘profit with purpose’ business, here’s a terrific program from the BBC’s Global Business unit about  ‘washing your hands with soap’.

 

 

 

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Heating up in the Arctic…

Monday, May 17th, 2010

 

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Charles Emmerson is the author of a new book called ‘The Future History of the Arctic’. He joins us as a guest on Future Tense to speak about the new geopolitical interest in a region which many think of as a barren wasteland.

 

 

                                                         AUDIO PREVIEW – Charles Emmerson

 

NOTE: full audio now available here.

 

 

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No yawns, so I must have been good

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

 

Antony here… I gave a lecture to students at La Trobe this week re our Generation F project. Hard to judge these things, but the fact that no one yawned has to be good.

Lawrie Zion (ex JJJ and The Australian) is my co-conspirator. He’s in charge of the journalism programme at La Trobe.

Will give more details on Generation F when things move along a bit.

If you want to listen to the audio of my presentation it’s here.

 

 

 

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Follow-up on ICANN and web addresses…

Friday, May 7th, 2010

 

 

A follow-up to the story we brought you last year about ICANN’s decision to allow web addresses in non-latin based script.  Here’s the original story.

NOTE: ICANN – Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.

 

 

 

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New initiative with La Trobe

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

 

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We’re launching a new initiative with La Trobe University.

We’re calling it Generation F (Future).

It’s about getting the future visions of young people to air. It’s also about audience participation.

Here’s a flyer from La Trobe’s online magazine called ’Upstart’.

 

 

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