Bloggers are being incarcerated, tortured, abducted, assassinated every day. No one protects bloggers. Here’s a list and discussion on Australia, politics and social media #HowManyMore
As tomorrow is an historic day – The Australian and other news.com sites move behind the paywall – what WILL we pay for, what SHOULD we pay for and what OTHER revenues streams are being missed by News.com refusal to build online communities around their content? A few nights ago, I went to the bloggers/Twitterers…
There’s a wild ride at the moment as traditional media slogs it out with social media. Stories that are popular in online communities become mainstream media news. And well, celebrities made by traditional media bite back in social networks. Take this case: There’s some sort of sex scandal involving a young woman and an AFL…
I’m a bad bad blogger – it’s been nearly a week since my last confession. Errr, blog post. A picture of Citizen Journalism: Photo on Flickr by Yea I Knit – under creative commons (by, no $, =) Note: 2,062 Diggs brought in 85,000 views. Confirming that a very small percentage bother to vote, though…
Brilliant article from Mark Day today: I’ve just grabbed a few paragraphs, read the whole thing yourself 🙂 ) Fairfax media puts future of newspapers under spotlight There are three kinds of news: happening, manufactured and revealed. Happening news is a jumbo jet explosion at 10,000m or a car crash at peak hour. It can…
Clipping: Heritage Media have a cake fundraising day. Revenues are tight. I made Duncan Riley giggle the other night by calling Mainstream Media or Old Media or print/tv/radio media “Heritage Media”. It’s not my term – but I forget where I heard it first. But it stuck. (Duncan Riley’s Forget MSM or Old Media, Heritage…
How strange! I was reading Stilgherrian‘s rant – or, open letter – to traditional journalists: Dear Journalists, how can you spout all that stuff about “standards” and then go back to your mucky business? Oh, that’s right. You’re a proper journalist. It’s all the others… Actually, I know why you’re so bitter about “those bloggers”….
| View | Upload your own My presentation slides to Freelance Journalists Group (80 or so) last night – you can flick through the slides by clicking. As I mentioned earlier, I was invited to talk to The Sydney Freelance Journalists Group (MEAA)Basically the slides focus on blogs as content, facebook/digg as distribution, twitter as…
Hi I’m speaking on Tuesday 17th June to a bunch of freelance journalists: INVITATION Facebook, blogging and freelance journalism The Sydney Freelance Journalists Group (MEAA) invites you to find out why social media sites like Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn and Blogger could be vital to your future as a freelancer. Join fellow freelance journalists at a…
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