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Today's blog post is a comment on the dark cloud of misinformation that hangs over Indigenous people.   Or an alternative heading:  The difference between good news and bad news. By Siv Parker __________________________ I'll start with a definition... Doorstop :  An interview with a politician or other public figure (apparently informal or spontaneous but often planned), as they enter or leave a building. Source: wikipedia   When I am talking about independent media and locations with significant Aboriginal populations, a 'doorstop' takes on a whole new meaning. I'll being with some background.  An enormous amount of written material finds its way to Aboriginal organisations.   Medical centres, legal centres, land councils, council offices, cultural centres are specifically targeted for mailouts. Government information kits, health campaign material, brochures, booklets and posters are plastic wrapped, boxed and sealed in canister...

Filling the Void by Siv Parker Whispering through a keyhole from behind a locked door, hoping the passing foot traffic pauses and wonders where the sound came from.    That’s how it feels to open an account on Twitter.  It can take more time than people feel is worth spending, to build an account and a profile.   Twitter knows this is a deterent to people joining the micro blogging platform. The CEO of the social media (SM) platform recently announced it was thinking hard about increasing the size of a tweet from a whisper of 140 characters to an almost unimaginable, shouty 10,000 characters.  Of those who cared – and not everyone does - the reaction from people at home on Twitter looked a lot like this. I can go either way.   Being confined to 140 characters makes a person's writing tight.   I like the challenge of telling a yarn in tiny bites. My pitch: Using modern technology to share the world's...