The Archives
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07.29.08acidlabs on The Scoop - Generation VirtualThis week, I'm a participant in Mark Jones' highly regarded podcast, The Scoop, a part of the Australian Financial Review's MISAustralia stable. I met Mark at the recent PubCamp events in Sydney and Melbourne, and we've been chatting online occasionally since. This weeks' show features me, Laurel Papworth, Michael Specht and C-level types Malcolm Pascoe, former CIO of Goodman Fielder, and Bob Hennessey, Financial Services Managing Director at BearingPoint and former CIO of AAPT. We spent a vigorous 30-odd minutes talking about connected workers, the value of social media and social networking in business including attraction, engagement and retention gains, customer relationships, ...
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07.23.08Non, je ne regrette rienLike my friend, Stilgherrian, I am pretty excited that educator and journalist, Francis Pisani has chosen to highlight our analysis of the Future of Media Summit in his piece Blogalaxie/4: “futur des médias” et “rumeurs”, for his Le Monde blog, Transnets: Ils ont parlé de la “tension artificielle” blogueurs-journalistes qui, selon Stephen Collins occupe trop de place (voir ce qu’en ont écrit Narvic et Éliane Fiolet sur Transnets). J’ai bien aimé cette phrase du blogueur australien Stilgherrian : “Ce qui est fatiguant dans cette fausse dichotomie c’est qu’elle compare les idéaux les plus élevés du journalisme et le degré le plus bas ...
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07.20.08Dear Hugh Martin, why didn’t you call?Hugh Martin of APN Online has commented on the ongoing artificial journalist vs. blogger thing. His post seeks to establish him as both experienced professional journalist and experienced "online guy". I'll pay him on both accounts. However, his post exhibits some of the worst traits he and the other professional journalists have accused bloggers of perpetuating - failure to research adequately, failure to contact the subjects of criticism for comment and unsubstantiated op-ed. As far as I know, Hugh didn't contact any of the people he criticises - me, Mark Pesce, Stilgherrian and Chris Saad. He accuses us of generalisation, laziness ...
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07.18.08On media, broadcast and formatsA comment from PWC's Tim Bull, on my summary of The Future of Media Summit prompted a lengthy reply from me. Tim argues for easy, usable media formats for non-early adopters. I agree. I think the issue of early adopters seeking data freedoms that aren't needed, wanted or even cared about by later adopters that Tim raises is important, although I don't necessarily agree with all he's said. I think my views are worth jotting down here for the sake of my memory, so here goes. This post is effectively a lengthy re-edit of my response in the original comment. First, there ...
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07.16.08What will the future of media look like?If you attended Ross Dawson's Future of Media Summit in Sydney or Silicon Valley yesterday, there are a few core take-aways you might have been left with: the artificial split/war between journalism and new media prevails everyone - PR, journalism, advertising and broadcasting - is trying to figure out this social networking and social media stuff (and I guess that's good for people like me who can help with that) old media is changing and coming into the new world, although the old "pump it out and they will consume" attitude still persists closed formats and ...
