Digital Tealeaves: Predictions for 2009 Dr Axel Bruns Creative Industries Faculty Queensland University of Technology [email_address] http://snurb.info/ – http:// produsage.org /

1. TV is dead. Long live TV!

FASTRACKED FROM THE US t

(http://www.bittorrent.com/)

2. Google runs the world…

( Google Maps Street View )

(via http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/)

(http://desktop.google.com/)

3. …the world runs on Google. (And a few other services…)

(http://wapetrol.googlemashups.com/)

(via http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/)

(http://www.projectdemocracy.com/)

(http://www.projectdemocracy.com/)

4. Meanwhile, journalism struggles.

(via SMH online)

(http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollytics/)

(http://www.myheimat.de/)

5. And politics is popular again?

(Archived 15 Nov. 2007 front page, at http://nla.gov.au/nla.arc-75521)

(http://my.barackobama.com/)

(http://www.kevinpm.com.au/)