The Archives
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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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07.16.08What 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 ...
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07.15.08Standing for Social Media Club boardWith 37 others, I am standing for the final slot on the Social Media Club Board. SMC, is a great organisation, that has the support and involvement of the best people in social media and has the stated aim of: ...sharing best practices, establishing ethics and standards, and promoting media literacy around the emerging area of Social Media. This is the beginning of a global conversation about building an organization and a community where the many diverse groups of people who care about social media can come together to discover, connect, share, and learn. The Board is a new initiative at ...
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07.09.08The iPhone as social umbilical cord (and how Australian telcos don’t get it)UPDATE: Despite the fact that it was rapidly pulled down (and is not yet back up as at 6:00PM AEST on 9 July), Vodafone finally published their pricing this morning. Realising my worst fears, Vodafone have produced the least competitive plans in the market. By delaying, they actually had time to implement a market-dominating approach, but seem to have utterly failed to do so. They will certainly lose me as a customer. For those countries that already have the iPhone, and those people using it, this groundbreaking device has proved to be a watershed in their ability to remain connected to ...
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06.24.08Quoted in the AFREDIT: Of course, with the AFR's evil paywall, you can't read the article online. Lucky they flow it through to MIS Australia. I'm quoted pretty extensively in a major article in the Information section of today's Australian Financial Review, the leading Australian newspaper focussed on business. In the article, Social networking comes of age, sort of, journalist Renai LeMay discusses the paper I delivered at itechne's recent PubCamp events in Melbourne and Sydney. You can see the original slides and notes here. It's exciting to be quoted in a journal as important as the AFR. It kind of makes me feel that ...
