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  1. Australia’s welfare state - Rear Vision - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Welfare benefits have been in the news a lot lately –€“ in Europe as governments struggle with debt, in the US with Mitt Romney’€™s comments about the ‘47 percent dependent on government entitlements’€™ and here in Australia as the federal government cuts back the baby bonus. This week on Rear Vision the story of welfare in Australia.

    Guests:
    Professor Francis Castles, Emeritus Professor - School of Politics and International Relations, Australian National University

    Professor Peter Whiteford, Crawford School of Public Policy , Australian National University

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rearvision/australia27s-welfare-state/4379252

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  2. What do Australians want from their government? - Late Night Live - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    In her Quarterly Essay, Laura Tingle discusses why Australians are so angry about their political leaders. Are they not delivering or do we expect too much from government?

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/what-do-australians-want-from-their-government3f/4050764

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  3. Kevin Kelly | Trends and Social Consequences of Technology

    Our long-term interaction with the web will be defined by six trends. These trends will will involve dramatic changes that will make computing more like what we are used to seeing in many of today’s movies. Kevin Kelly explains why he believes that soon the internet will beneficially surround us in ways that most users don’t imagine today.

    http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4930.html#

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  4. RN Rear Vision - 18 May 2011 - Life after the GFC

    The Global Financial Crisis had its roots in the collapse of the US housing bubble, which caused the values of securities tied to US real estate to plummet, in turn threatening the existence of many of the world’s biggest financial institutions. Rear Vision looks at how the aftershocks of the crisis are playing out around the world.

    http://www.abc.net.au/rn/rearvision/stories/2011/3211434.htm

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  5. Tom Morris: When is a dataset not a dataset?

    The hackday project that crowdsourced data.gov.uk

    How many of the now 3241 datasets listed as part of data.gov.uk are easy to open up and play with? How many are tables for computers to analyse, instead of PDF reports for people to read?

    The Hacks and Hackers Hackday filled a Channel 4 office with journalists and developers on the final Friday in January. Our aim was to tell new stories with open data. Attendees already had form - the BBC’s Open Secrets blogger Martin Rosenbaum, and data journalism teams from the Times, the Guardian, and the FT. Tom Loosemore judged our attempts in his role as head of hosts 4iP, alongside My Society boss Tom Steinberg. They awarded the prize to my team’s analysis of Tory candidates. But another project promised to shed light on public data in the UK.

    Tom Morris was part of a team that looked into the quality of data.gov.uk. Although data.gov.uk advertises itself as a database of open datasets, many of the entries are actually PDF files. He built a prototype format checker that invites people to go through datasets and record the file format.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcbackstage/2010/04/datagovuk-format-checker.shtml

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  6. Thomas Y. Levin: “surveillent narcissism” and other digital doubts

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    With Tom Levin, a media theorist at Princeton, we are catching up with not just the everyday “fabulousness” of “surveillent narcissism,” but a wider wave of misgivings about the digital information revoluton — questions, complaints and reassessments being raised by, for example, Jaron Lanier, Daniel Gelernter and Jonathan Zittrain, among others. “The only hope for social networking sites from a business point of view,” Lanier writes, “is for a magic formula to appear in which some method of violating privacy and dignity becomes acceptable.”

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    http://www.radioopensource.org/thomas-y-levin-surveillent-narcissism-and-other-digital-doubts/

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