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Heritage Hartigan attacks everyday Australian readers

John Hartigan, chief of News Corp Australian office went on the attack today. It might be just me, but the whole thing reeks of the newspaper ship sinking and an angry captain not making any sense. From Duncan Riley’s The Inquisitr: Almost anyone can start one of these sites, with very little capital, no training…

Australia Conference: PANPA Publishing

Yooohooo, anyone in Queensland September 8th to 10th? Around Conrad Jupiters? I’m speaking at PANPA then, plus running a 1/2 day workshop for a client. Here’s the details of the conference: PANPA08 Winning the Next Publishing Battle In Print and Digital Day One seems to be workshops – there’s one on Editorial Innovation – Building…

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Web 2.0 is a bust – Advertising doesn’t work

NewsFlash! From 24/7 Wall Street Social Networks Don’t Work For Advertisers: Web 2.0 Is A Bust (GOOG)(TWX)(NWS) Perhaps someone could have figured this out a year ago, Social networks like MySpace, owned by News Corp (NWS) and Facebook are poor targets for marketers. No wonder. A social network is a patch work of millions of…

Facebook vs Google – social search, inbuilt support

Anyone here use Facebook? *poke* poke* From Ad Age: 23-Year-Old Mark Zuckerberg Has Google Sweating Idealist Entrepreneur’s Facebook Offers Something Search Doesn’t–Distribution By Abbey Klaassen Just as Google has become what some people call the operating system for search, Facebook is turning itself into the operating system for social networking. While Google knows what millions…

TV Future – real?

I shouldn’t have been such a smartypants in the last post- a few minutes ago on TechCrunch: I’ve just joined the “NewTube” media call with NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker and News Corp. COO Peter Chernin. Notes to follow. Chernin is kicking things off. It took him about 2 minutes to say “Web 2.0″ for…

Techdirt’s Technology or Community?

Techdirt (a free service of techdirt corporate intelligence) had this insightful little bite from Mike of the seems-like-it department: Which Is More Important: Technology Or Community? from the seems-like-it dept There’s an interesting little blurb making the rounds today about Rupert Murdoch claiming Google could have bought MySpace three months before he did at half…

An Evening Out

Cool. Erietta (from Cyberworx) and I moseyed on down to Mintners to catch Mark Pesce (futurist), Jonathan Nicholas (Inspire), Mike Walsh (News Corp) and Jennifer Wilson (HWW).It was a great opportunity for me to understand where Australia is in the move towards participatory journalism and marketing. Mark Pesce is an interesting and dynamic speaker. After…

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