upstart is tweeting the next federal election, and you’re invited to help!

It’s the week before university starts and that can only mean one thing: O-Week. Upstart is keen to hear about your stories. Dreams, disasters and debauchery, we want to know about it all.

Upstart editor Tom Cowie returns to the keyboard in 2010 with a new column entitled ‘Fridays in February’. Today he takes aim at Facebook and the ever-evolving cult of celebrity.

La Trobe University’s Matthew Smith interviews upstart co-founder Lawrie Zion about the changing face of journalism education.

It’s happy half-birthday to us. Send us your comments, your criticisms, and even your congratulations – we want the lot.

Social media has the potential to provide an array of new opportunities to people with disabilties. But when it comes to sites such as Twitter, more needs to be done, according to Rachel Mulholland.

La Trobe’s Lawrie Zion is one of the panelists in a discussion this afternoon entitled “Do Journos do it better? Journalists in SocMedia Communities”, which is part of the Media140 conference being held in Sydney and streamed live on the web.

With the popularity of Twitter constantly growing, a new program feature allows users to create their own lists – and to be listed by others. upstart is dipping its toe in the water on this one.

It’s been more than half a century since “cultural cringe” snuck into our national lexicon. And according to Tom Cowie, there’s no sign that the term has reached its use-by date.

Moose the chocolate Labrador got bored with his old media habit. But as he discovered, it’s never too late to learn new tricks on Twitter.