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With everyone’s lives getting busier and busier, it seems that there is never enough time to keep up with all the things in your world that you should.
It’s important to keep up with current affairs, both here and overseas, but the tabloids’ media coverage of such topics are sketch at best and purile and sensationalist at worst.
(Subscribers to this view will find Paul Keating’s recent speech on the current state of the media and privacy and interesting read. You’ll find it here.)
So, where can you get good, succinct yet considered coverage and analysis of what’s going on in the world and your own backyard without having to spend hours pouring over pages and pages of text?
That’s where the Inside Story Web site can help. A joint project of the Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University of Technology in assocation with the Australian National University, this site provides original, high-quality journalism and rigorous analysis from Australian writers and academic researchers, together with correspondents in Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas.
You can either visit the site directly, sign up for a free weekly email newsletter of site highlights, or following Inside Story on Twitter.
Gail Lipscombe has worked for some of Australia's hottest tech magazines for over 10 years. In her blog, she focuses on demystifying technology, gadgets and the web for average consumers.