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Sidhe: releases Steam-driven PC version of Shatter
Screen Hub
Wednesday 17 March, 2010 (New Zealand)

Sidhe's original title Shatter, a retro-inspired brick-breaking game, is now available for PC download via Steam. The PC version of the game features new PC-exclusive game modes, Steam Achievements and leaderboards.

Playpen: Flying Nun crashes to earth in New Zealand
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Screen Hub
Monday 15 March, 2010 (New Zealand)

Flying Nun is "synonomous with Kiwi Indie music", as the site says. It produced a bunch of clips which can inspire retro-conscious contemporaries, and reduce the oldsters to giggling nostalgia.

SBS Facebook Doc: gone to Goa
Digital Media Net
Friday 12 March, 2010 (Australia)

SBS, Freehand Television/Being Films and branded content agency, Dubz.tv, along with the Screen Australia brings you an online documentary only on Facebook.

ACTA: heading this way, with big European dog nipping at its heels
Screen Hub
Friday 12 March, 2010 (New Zealand)

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreementy (ACTA) thingymajig has been much criticised for maintaining so much secrecy around the content of its discussions. It rolls into NZ next month for its next round of behind-closed-doors discussions.

Playpen: the iPad ad
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Screen Hub
Wednesday 10 March, 2010 (Australia)

Apple debuted [deeboooted?] the iPad advertising at the Oscars. You think this thing won't roooool your world?

TiVo: has nothing to do with phones
Screen Hub
Monday 8 March, 2010 (New Zealand)

One has never had to dodge hordes of happy, carefree families proudly carrying their new TiVo boxes out of Telecom stores. So, nobody should be shocked to discover that TiVo is becoming, rather than the best thing since sliced bread, more the Betamax to Freeview's VHS.

Copyright: unusually inclusive rant from SMH blog
SMH
Monday 8 March, 2010 (Australia)

Oddly anonymous, Basil Hegazi manages to assemble some of the diverse positions and implications of online downloading into one entertaining place.

NBN: allegedly arguing with Feds
The Australian
Monday 8 March, 2010 (Australia)

Is the NBN playing truculent with Conroy? Surely not, given Telstra's history of conflict. But government smarties are dancing with technical experts to create both political capital and a decent service, while 4G waits to undercut the whole lot. According to some smarties who may be technical experts...

NZ Documentary Edge: multimedia across the Tasman
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Screen Hub
Friday 5 March, 2010 (New Zealand)

Wendy Levy, facilitator of the weekend's Doc Lab, ran a long Monday afternoon session reporting on the Lab and discussing the challenges and opportunities of “new media”. She invited the audience to interrupt with questions, but spoke so fast and authoritatively that for 45 minutes nobody dared – not even the other panelists.

Media 2010: 'elite international debrief' discuss new decades' rules
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Screen Hub
Friday 5 March, 2010 (Australia)

In Sydney at the Media 2010 ‘elite international debrief’ on Friday 19th February, some of the smartest 'digirati' and media’s most influential powerbrokers from around the world came together to discuss the new decade’s ‘rules’ for attracting audiences and running profitable media businesses.

Brief: Hoodies want more Emmy fun!
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Screen Hub
Friday 5 March, 2010 (Australia)

Already inspired by one International Digital Emmy, Hoodlum Entertainment is quietly admitting it is up for another one, this time for Primeval Evolved

Mary and Max: now an ACMI exhibition until 6 June 2010.
Friday 5 March, 2010 (Australia)

On March 2nd, ACMI opened an exhibition about the creative and technical processes behind the acclaimed Australian animation by showing a selection from the thousands of items created for the film alongside imagery from the finished product.

AIDC 2010: Beyond social media - Web 3.0
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Thursday 4 March, 2010 (Australia)

Just when you thought you might have finally gotten your head around the idea of Web 2.0, suddenly they’re talking Web 3.0. In a session called “Beyond Social Media: Documentary and the Intelligent Web”, delegates got a taste of some of the latest web-oriented thinking.

'Reservoir Hill': nominated for digital Emmy
Screen Hub
Wednesday 3 March, 2010 (New Zealand)

Reservoir Hill, TVNZ's online drama which ran late last year, has become the first NZ project to be nominated for an International Digital Emmy Award.

AIDC 2010: It’s All Media
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Screen Hub
Wednesday 3 March, 2010 (Australia)

The full title of this session was It’s All Media With New Money Using Heritage Principals. It was about how Marcus’ company approaches development, financing and production of their award-winning all-media projects such as Storm Surfers, which is about to go into a second incarnation.

DOC Lab 2010: Borderless Media
Screen Hub
Wednesday 3 March, 2010 (New Zealand)

DocLab participant Angelique Kasmara came away from the weekend excited and inspired, but calmed down enough to write a little about the experience...

Documentary Edge 2010: braving the www, or wild west wonderland
Screen Hub
Wednesday 3 March, 2010 (New Zealand)

Wendy Levy, facilitator of the weekend's Doc Lab, ran a long Monday afternoon session reporting on the Lab and discussing the challenges and opportunities of “new media”. She invited the audience to interrupt with questions, but spoke so fast and authoritatively that for 45 minutes nobody dared – not even the other panelists.

Playpen: just rock and roll
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Screen Hub
Monday 1 March, 2010 (Haiti)

Shane McGowan, Nick Cave and friends, doing "I Put a Spell on You" for Haiti.

Senator Conroy: filters his own net filter
News.com.au
Friday 26 February, 2010 (Australia)

A vigilant technology reporter has caught Senator Stephen Conroy filtering his own website. The filter removes any reference to the words "ISP filter" from the tag cloud. Maybe he is getting the message after all...

Google & the Italian courts: putting the 'nut' back into 'nut-job'
BigPond
Friday 26 February, 2010 (Italy)

An Italian court has convicted four Google executives for the crime of not taking down a video. 'None of these four people had anything to do with the video. They didn't film it, they didn't upload it, they didn't review it. Nonetheless they were held criminally responsible.'

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