Pertinent reading!

Stumbled across what appears to have been an online doco called milkbar, it traced the history of Fitzroy through the impact of post-industrialisation on Australia's economy and the effects of globalisation. Unfortunately the site is down, which does challenge the notion of the web being permanent. However you can access some video clips from the site I believe at an intermedia site. The video you can access may offer some inspiration for our own online docos.

The author of the milkbar project Craig Bellamy, an ex-student of the old rmit, has a website of his own that within one particular post discusses the elusive concept of audience. I found this incredibly useful and in many ways felt like it encapsulated the issues and concepts that have arisen from this subject. Check it out and see what you think! An understanding of your audience is incredibly important when developing any project. Previously your audience may have been easier to define as you were aware of your chosen mediums developed niche. The audience that accesses the web becomes more elusive, as Bellamy discusses. He sheds light on who your audience may be, in terms of where they access the internet, for instance the differences between home and a cafe. Where your audience is geographically located, and considerations of how you construct your language. Whether it is parochial and not accessible to an international audience.

There is a point made that the 'sharing of knowledge is fundamental to the advancement of knowledge', in relation to the blogging world where a website exists within a network that is referenced and has websites that link back to it. Thus creating an on-line community. He notes how this is particularly important within academia, and very succinctly provides the perfect analogy. With many other points discussed from track-backing to meta-tags, I almost felt like Id stumbled across an article straight from the transient spaces dossier.