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Josh says in his interview with the Guardian: “There is a lot of high-quality information out there…Not only journalism, but blogs and other services. And our task is to bring this information to the reader. So ask yourself: Is Twitter journalism? I don't know. But there is no question that it is part of the dialogue. Is [...]  WITN?: Yahoo didn’t sentence 200,000 Iranians to death, and other misadventures in online journalismAmusing blog post on the perils of blogging which I think illustrates a couple of things about the blogsphere. The lack of editorial oversight implicit in the system obviously produces problems now and the speed of propagation is a friend to the headline. Less obvious is the role of “a thousand eyes” in correcting any [...] This is tech humour, it mightn’t appeal to many but I’ve lifted a few gems to lighten the mood a little presidenteloco writes Dear Mr Murdoch If you don’t want to be hyperlinked to, you might consider not putting your content on the worldwide web. interkin3tic says: You have to look at it from his perspective. Basically his [...] Twenty years seems like a lifetime when you are a child, for obvious reasons. My daughter’s only ten so its two of her lifetimes. Yet twenty years ago on Hey Hey it Saturday a red faces skit won something trivial for its rendition of a Jackson Five performance. It wasn’t funny then so why did [...] In the US even as the mainstream media thrashes around in its death throes people are still turning to media production as a means of expressing themselves and seeking to do so in sophisticated and innovative ways. Take a look at News 21. Welcome | News21 | Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education. My question is – how much money does the Institute of Foresters have to pay Fairfax to run this sort of flagrant propaganda? Selective use of facts might make the logging industry look like a poor misunderstood collection of hard working salt of the earth regional australians, but at what point do we decide enough [...] Hugh White talked about new media from a long term historical perspective, questioning whether “new media” is really a major gamechanger when it comes to prosecuting war. On feature that emerged in Hugh’s short talk that is overlooked in the new media landscape is the role of broadcast mass media and the difference between what’s [...] James Der Derian who delivered a keynote address to the ANU conference War 2.0 raised the issue of the “speed of media transmission” as a key attribute of the new media and reporting on the war, a point emphasised by Kate Geraghty, a photojournalist, in her short presentation. Brigadier Brian Dawson talked about the new form [...] The funny money that was driving the US economy during the Bush years disappeared in a sudden implosion but before it disappeared, the very same people who were instrumental in creating the mess made sure the incoming administration would have to pick up the tab. On friday three more US banks went kaput but such is [...] More cheery news… The decline of American economic power linked to the current global recession was implicitly acknowledged by the World Bank president Robert Zoellick. “One of the legacies of this crisis may be a recognition of changed economic power relations,” he said in Istanbul ahead of meetings this week of the IMF and World Bank. via [...] |
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