Why traditional media editors will turn to bloggers for articles in the future. Social media = content PLUS audience.

If you are managing a newspaper or TV station or radio, will you contract out work to a freelance journalist…  or will you ask a known expert that blogs to write  the article? Someone who is held in high regard in that industry or specialist topic, who has an audience of other people interested in that topic and who has now had 3 or 4 years of writing/blogging and retaining interest of the online community?

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Four stories of chandelier anyone? First of all, 2webcrew live podcast with comments channel is about to start. I’m usually on there, but all this travelling has meant I’ve not been able to do it for 3 weeks, but still, they are doing a fabbo job! Duncan Riley from TechCrunch, Cameron Reilly from The Podcast Network and Bronwen Clune of Norg Newspapers. And the usually assorted wierdos and geeks. Background first, then Day One. And day two is about Women and Identity in Saudi Arabia. Day Three and Four have been similar to each other. You might like to know: Continue Reading…

 

Strange how some things change and others stay the same. We now have an old guard in Internet and they resist change fairly strongly. Particularly if they didn’t see it coming. I fell over this article in SMH today – Teenage habits – and was, well, gobsmacked at Paul McIntyre’s predictions for World Internet Project’s Jeff Cole’s advice to PBL would be. ON MONDAY morning James Packer will get a one-hour debrief from the director of the World Internet Project before both men address ninemsn’s digital marketingsummit.If Jeff Cole is correct, Packer will discover that his friends over at News Continue Reading…

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