Hello my darlins’ I’m working hard at the moment on a couple of projects including this month’s two courses – citizen journalism and a social networks marketing course – at the Uni of Sydney. Come sign up! Anyway, on with the show! Phil Windley’s Technometria had this: Online Communities and Health Care Last week I…
Al Gore, the guy who created the Internet, that one? Sky is to launch Al Gore’s US user-generated content TV channel Current in the UK and Ireland following a deal with the former US vice-president. The deal was announced today by BSkyB CEO James Murdoch and Gore. Gore is planning to design Current TV content…
The ABC has been having a DigitalFutures couple of days. I made a comment here: Citizen PartnersOur questions: A)How would the ABC look with a partnership with citizens?B)How would the ABC incorporate citizen participation without comprising the public and civic mission?C)How would it redefine its community and audiences?D)What challenges would this pose for editorial practices…
From Seek (I reckon Topic Media got the idea from the AOL/Netscape vs Digg fiasco): BloggerGet paid to write about your interests! No knowledge of HTML is required. You just have to be an entertaining and informative writer. Work location: ANYWHERE in Australia so long as there’s an internet connection! On Topic Media is looking…
When Australia lost the Crocodile Hunter a couple of hours ago, shock reverberated around the ‘net. Intriguingly, I expected Guestbooks to be up with the half hour. What I did find was the comment section of The Courier Mail performing that task. Tragic Loss of An Aussie Icon. Unfortunately, because they moderate every comment I…
Every Woman is a trade publication for nurses. Here’s MediaPost evaluation of it: With a tagline of “Your prescription for healthy living,” Every Woman tries to milk its one big point of difference from other titles. Almost every article is written by nurses instead of journalists. The diagnosis: it’s an approach that doesn’t entirely work….
Thanks to Crikey! (I did subscribe) re: Blogging the Terror Threat. Their link to RexBlog brought up this snippet: Yahoo News using Flickr today as a citizen journalist tool (and a how-to do it yourself):The front page of Yahoo! News is featuring a link to a slide show of photos related to today’s airport backups….
First, the YouTube video explosion thing. Back on June 21st I wrote about Mark and Guy’s Excellent Digital Adventure, remember? I uploaded (fully attributing) Neill Blomfield’s video called Alive in Joberg by Neill Blomkamp Spyfilms, simply so I could link to it, for this blog. Since June 21st I’ve had one comment and a few…
Good question. Up to no good, no doubt! The University of Sydney’s Centre for Continuing Education Spring Guide came out yesterday. In there, you’ll note, I’m teaching two courses – you might be interested. The first one is in the Professional Development area (Marketing, Sales and Events). On the 20th October in fact: Marketing into…
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