Tag archives for the guardian

BBC says Use Social Media – or Leave

BBC tells journalists to use social media as a primary source. Or Leave. This article is well worth reading in it’s entirety – and one wonders how far behind News Australia and Fairfax are in making similar statements. Quite far off, I imagine. BBC journalists must keep up with technological change – or leave, the [...]

Pay for News vs Save The Media

Just a quick follow up on Death Cycle of Newspapers – News Corp will charge for newspaper websites, says Rupert Murdoch - Current days of free internet will soon be over, says media mogul (The Guardian) Rupert Murdoch expects to start charging for access to News Corporation‘s newspaper websites within a year as he strives to fix [...]

50 Most Powerful Blogs, 100 Christian Blogs and popular vs powerful

I’ve cut and paste to make a list – for a summary on each one that is in the top 50 list and why, go to The Guardian: huffingtonpost.com boingboing.net techcrunch.com (UnkyDunky etc) kottke.org dooce.com (sacked for blogging) perezhilton.com (you know you want it) talkingpointsmemo.com icanhascheezburger.com (cats and the first Internet language) beppegrillo.it gawker.com drudgereport.com [...]

Meda08 Morning My Loves

My crap attempt at microbogging Jack Matthews: Content is King for FairfaxKevin Anderson: should The Guardian have seesmic in their blogs? Kevin Swanepoel: Viral videos are cool Morning Tea: chatted with Kevin Anderson who has contacts with Saudi women bloggers BBC: we the consumer are learning and evolving. BBC takes television and convergence and creates [...]

Event: Media08 Question: Who should I speak to?

s’not often you see ‘cocktails’ in a header image I managed to wrangle a VIB pass to Media08. VIB stands for Very Important Blogger. Media08 don’t call me that – I’ve given myself that title – let’s call is a ‘user generated title‘? heh. The organisers of Media08 have been nice enough to treat me [...]

Australia – Event: Media 08

Are you going? Media 08 Australia’s Annual Report for Digital Professionals. Friday 7th March, 9.00am – 5.30pmJones Bay Wharf, Pyrmont, Sydney Australia’s leading digital media organisations, Fairfax Digital and X|Media|Lab, bring you a one-day executive briefing on all you need to know about digital media for the year 2008. “Media ’08″ brings together world leading [...]

Event: A day in the life of SilkCharm. – Enterprise 2.0 and Talkback events

OMG. Oh. My. God. If anyone ever asks you to chair a conference DON’T DO IT! Seriously. It’s really hard work! (And we’ve already established that I’m lazy). I’m involved with a Enterprise 2.0 conference at the Crowne Plaza and we’ve got about 12 speakers per day. My job is to introduce the speakers – [...]