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What's on the front page around Australia.

The world's biggest photographic trade fair, Photokina, has just wrapped up in Cologne, Germany, so what should we look for in a new digital camera?

What's on the front page around Australia.

The rise and rise of file-sharing From Napster & Kazaa through to Bit Torrent - this week on the Media Report a look at the history and impact of file-sharing software.

What's on the front page around Australia.

What's on the front page around Australia.

Police raids on journalists Last week the police raided the home of a well connected Canberra Times journalist. A contact gave the journo official briefings about how Australia spies on its Asian friends -- and the authorities want to track down the leak. Is a raid a legitimate investigation tool? Or an attempt to gag a free and fearless media? The psychology of conmen How do conmen convince you to part with your money? Who are they? And how do they choose their victims? Learn their secrets from someone who has studied their dark arts. Magician Nick Johnson has some interesting insights into psychology of scams...and some suggestions on how to stop your money from going up in smoke!

What's on the front page around Australia.

No business model can keep it afloat. Powerful people conspire against it. Young people just aren´t interested. Welcome to a troubled enterprise: investigative journalism. It has been a bad year. The demise of high profile titles and television shows has those left in the industry worried. Join us for the annual Munster Award and forum where three of the best discuss the future of their craft.

What's on the front page around Australia.

Civility online Town square or playground of the keyboard warriors? Why does so much online interaction end up aggressive, polarised and anything but enlightening? A taxonomy of blogs Author and media analyst Margaret Simons takes a stab at defining the different types of blogs that currently exist.

What's on the front page around Australia.

What's on the front page around Australia.

First there was Q&A with Tony Jones, offering people the chance to talk face-to-face with our politicians. Now there's a new TV show which allows young Australians to have their say. Its called The Hack Half Hour and it's hosted by Steve Cannane. The show will air tonight on ABC 2 at 8.30pm.

What's on the front page around Australia.

This month marks ten years since the launch of the internet search engine Google. Back then, the company operated out of one computer in a dorm room at Stanford University. Today, the company has a market capitalisation of 150 billion US dollars. And it's not just a search engine any more, there's a slew of web based products involving maps, pictures, social networking and videos. And now Google has a web browser, to take on Microsoft's Internet Explorer. It's called Chrome.

Trends and Products: future of the internet The internet is dynamic. What happens when English is not the world's most used language on the internet? What happens when most of the readers do so from right to left, instead of the current left to right? Research is underway between USA's Intel Corporation and Melbourne's Swinburne University to identify the main shifts in the way we use the internet. Design to stop crime The prevention of crime through good design has been around for a long time. Iron Age forts in Southern England are surrounded by complicated tracks and ridges. These are not an accident of landscape, but design pure design. Their purpose was to deter cattle thieves. And it worked. Find out what kind of thinking and work is being done in design today to help eradicate crime. A new model for the Australian town? Imagine building a town from scratch. What could you learn from the mistakes of the past to create a new community with urban planning that ticked all the right boxes? Zoo design Designing a home for humans comes with its own set of challenges, depending on the idiosyncrasies of the home-owners. But designing a home for a family of hippos is a different matter altogether. That was the task taken on by landscape architecture company Urban Initiatives for Werribee Open Range Zoo in Victoria. Circular Quay - Gateway to Sydney At 2pm on Monday, October 6, as part of the 2008 Sydney Architecture Festival, former prime minister Paul Keating will talk about the Quay and his views on Sydney, followed by a public forum exploring the place the Quay holds in the public imagination. Panelists include architect Richard Leplastrier, Sydney City Councillor John McInerney, and Sydney Morning Herald architecture critic Elizabeth Farrelly, hosted by Alan Saunders, presenter of By Design.

Google's Chrome, and others, offer easier, smoother, faster servers into their gated internet gardens, where all things are known. It's the Petabyte Age, and there be beasties. Reporter Stan Correy.

`On the record´ with Deborah Welch An `On the record´ interview with Deborah Welch, president of the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia. She talks about the sector´s funding pitch to Canberra and its changing identity in the era of user-generated content.

Trends in lighting Trends and Products is the part of the show where each week we focus on developments in a particular part of the designed world. And this week our focus is light. The humble brick The humble brick is the subject of author Ron Ringer's The Brickmaster 1788 - 2008. The first alluvial clay was actually found in the first two weeks of European settlement at Sydney's Cockle Bay. Now it's known as Haymarket and Chinatown, where ABC Ultimo is based and from where By Design is broadcast each week. While the brick industry started in Sydney, the brick revolution spread quickly across the country. Perth is often referred to by old brickmakers as the brick capital of the world. And in every small town there was a brickworks. If not, a `travelling´ brickmaker would often set up at the edge of town. The shrinking office You may have noticed the subtle and not so subtle design shifts taking place in your workplace. The office is shrinking in size, and sometimes there is no office at all anymore, simply a bit of space at the ubiquitous workstation. As there has been a call for higher density housing options now the pressure is on for higher density offices. By Design looks at when all this started and what the outcome is for us all. Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack and the Bauhaus in Australia The Bauhaus was the school - the name means "House of Building" or "Building School" - founded in Weimar by Walter Gropius in 1919. It combined arts and crafts and had an enormous influence on Modernist art, architecture, graphic design, interior design, industrial design and typography. The Bauhaus closed with the coming of the Nazis in 1933.