Blog Journalism: The World As Editor
Comments in blogs keep the blogger honest. The world becomes the Editor – a scary brute indeed!
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SilkCharms Magical Machinima MerryGoRound
Gary Hayes put this video together for the attendees of the public “How to make Machinima course” he ran at AFTRS the other day. My character from World of Warcraft got roped in to voice the silly jokes. She’s now on the hunt for an avatar management agency. Heh. Some of the machinima we watch at home…
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NZ: Qantas Media Awards
I was asked to be a judge of the New Zealand Qantas Media Awards for 2009. Here’s the web awards winners – ta da! : Blog Winner: Moata Tamaira, Stuff Finalists: Greer McDonald, The Dominon Post Adam Brown, The Dominion Post Website Breaking News Story Winner: www.dompost.co.nz andwww.stuff.co.nz – Vote 08 Finalists: www.waikatotimes.co.nz and www.stuff.co.nz…
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Natalie Imbruglia: Stars on Twitter
Natalie Imbruglia (@natimbruglia) responding to a fan on Twitter. While a number of stars are still using Twitter for broadcast (get an intern to tweet 140 char press releases linking to full press release) more and more are using the online community Twitter in a social way. I blogged about the stoush between Perez Hilton…
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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…
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The Death Cycle of Newspapers
The London Standard today told readers “Sorry For Losing Touch”. There are 5 stages to the loss, grief, death cycle according to Kubler-Ross: Denial: Denial is usually only a temporary defense for the individual. This feeling is generally replaced with heightened awareness of situations and individuals that will be left behind after death. Example –…
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AdAge and the new world of computers
ADAGE introduces a “breakthrough in interactive features”. WARNING: Troll posting ahead. A KEYSTROKE of GENIUS for International Readers? I don’t think so… Now you can get every page — every word, every graphic, every ad, every dot and whistle of every issue of AD AGE — on your computer at a click. And we’re hearing a great cheer go up for…
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Freeview Fiasco and Robin Parkes interview
I’m always interested in Film and TV – and we had an interesting discussion the other night on the social network, Twitter about EPG (Electronic Program Guide). The sheer – and there’s no other word for it but ‘hatred‘ – people have for EPG abuses by TV stations was obvious. It seems that ALL the…
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Australia: Newsagency and Mainstream Magazines
WINNER OF MASTERCLASS TICKET CAPTION WILL GO HERE!!!! Mumbles doesn’t believe that Yours Truly would be caught dead in a newsagency. Well, here’s your proof – loitering with intent to pick up a marketing heritage mag. As he now owes me a free pass to his Social Media Extravaganza Advanced Uber MasterClass, And in the…
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