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Miranda Devine – stating the obvious

Ms Devine has a habit of penning some enticing lines, I mean the topic of Gen Y and politics seems enticing as does her exploration of the Green Police ad that screened during the US Super Bowl but her article simply fail to deliver anything new.

When Labor came to power in 2007 only the [...]

RIP: A remix Manifesto 2.0

If you missed this doco on SBS, here is a web version. (inbedded player not working)

RIP: A remix Manifesto 2.0 | Open Source Cinema – An Open Source Documentary Film about Copyright.

YouTube - where old TV promos go to live.

I love boing boing! Check out the cameras and the typewriters but the fashions…omfg!

YouTube – WITI TV-6 – News Update [1982] {1 min}.

5 minutes with Kindle

A friend turned up tonight with a Kindle which he bought out of Amazon in the US for around $350.00 Oz and generously let me play with it for about 5 minutes which makes this a kind of first impressions report.

With its thickish device sandwiched between heavy covers with some sort of mock leather finish [...]

The other contest

On Tuesday when the Libs kick out the petulant Malcolm Turnbull for his blatant disregard of Nick Minchin’s point of view there will ensue a small tussle between the hard right of the Liberal Party represented by the mad monk, Tony Abbott or possibly, all-time funny man Kevin Andrews and the “popular front bencher” and [...]

The revolution might be twittered, but don't count on it.

While Julie Posetti wants us to believe in the power of the twitterverse to achieve significance in the way news is reported, I think her comments overlook some aspects of how news is made and she asserts a significance for twitter which seems to gloss over some of the “noisy” aspects of that particular internet [...]

Political coverage on TV

Over 18 months ago the fearless poetry spouting leader of the ABC, Mark Scott made quite a splash about another jewel in the Ultimo crown, a so-called continuous news centre. This worthy initiative was mean to herald a 24hr news service to all Australians, not just those who are prepared to pay for Sky News. [...]

FT.com / Media - Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact

Not long ago I linked to Jason Clacanis’s video where he talked about the potential for News Corp to play off Bing against Google and today the Financial Times has another more concrete looking story which suggests that the Microsoft News marriage is all but done and dusted. News brings a fat dowry of rich [...]

The ABC spreads its tentacles

The background. ABC presser then Crikey in bed with Smart Company plus New Matilda and of course LP.

So what monday! Chris Wallace takes an early break and misses the big media story of the day. Mark at LP dips out on a plumb gig over at Aunty and Crikey gets set for shake-up, meanwhile Media [...]

Is Content King?

Is this a case of the enemy of my enemy is my friend?

When Rupert talked recently about thieves he referred to Google and Microsoft as well as Ask but this seems like a obvious development, one that probably favours Microsoft because they gain more than just the business in search, it also strengthens their [...]