~ Eureka Street is Courage without the Rash

With dozens of contributing writers, Eureka Street provides an invaluable model of collaborative communications.

Navigate to the Eureka website on any given day and you’ll encounter thoughtful articles on just about everything – from politics, to eulogies, to sport – from indigenous issues, to editorials, to book reviews.

Take a look at some recent posts:

“St Mary’s a metaphor for blogger power”
…Researcher and author Stuart Allan, in his book Online News notes that bloggers and their ilk have the potential to ‘alter the dynamics of public debate’, firstly by removing the established role of news gatekeeper and secondly by becoming so influential that ‘reporters are beginning every day by reading the blogs’. Perhaps because of this, there is another aspect to the issue which deserves a look: bloggers haven’t been popular among journalists either. Many journalists — especially the rightfully disgruntled ones among the thousands laid off from newspapers here and in the UK and US in the past year — regard blogging by ‘non-professionals’ as a threat to their position as ‘professionals’ and, more acutely, to their income…

“When feminism goes green” – a book review
…These essays are a call to people who care,’ she writes, and though I understand that Salleh means to care in a professional sense, it rubs me up the wrong way. I almost put the book down there and then. But there’s enough veracity and purpose in Salleh’s introduction to warrant further investigation. ‘As I write this, sunlight glistens through morning rain and casuarinas bow to a soft north east breeze,’ she muses. ‘Whoever would guess that life on earth is falling into precarity — threatened by global free trade, militarism, climate change, sexual violence, genetic and nano technologies.’…

“Agnostic on a mission from God”
…I’m a Dan Brown novice. I avoided his novels and the film version of The Da Vinci Code. I suspected that they were overhyped trash. And that the controversy over their Catholic Church bashing was simply more rubber for the popularity tyre fire. So I viewed Angels and Demons, the movie sequel based on Brown’s prequel novel, with low expectations. I was surprised. I spent the next two hours thoroughly entertained by this thriller. Angels and Demons is a live-action cartoon, offering a few laughs, a few thrills, and nary a demand to use one’s brain. It is trash, but boy, what fun!…

Like most online magazines, articles are published when they’re ready and not just when the printing press in rolling. And since online publishing is relatively ‘flat’, organizationally speaking, it’s naturally collaborative and easily accessible.

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