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Outrageous

david — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:54:37 +0000

Andrew Bolt is dining out big time on his stouch with the PM. Frankly it was stupid politics on the side of a PM to personally name a journalist especially one as cunning and conniving as Bolt who will exploit his notoriety to the max. If there is one thing a Murdoch journo understands it [...]

The National Times has gone nuclear

david — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:51:07 +0000

Prominent in the National Times this morning is another opinion piece by Professor Leslie Kemeny, a member of the International Nuclear Energy Academy.

Professor Kemeny’s opinion is so valuable that there are two of his articles appearing in the Times this morning. Obviously Fairfax believes two nukes are better than one, an opinion backed up by [...]

WITN?: Yahoo didn’t sentence 200,000 Iranians to death, and other misadventures in online journalism

david — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:16:01 +0000

Amusing 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 [...]

Apple Tablet To Redefine Newspapers, Textbooks and Magazines – apple tablet – Gizmodo

david — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:55:32 +0000

Can you imagine the paper boy tossing these around? No. But think about this, four years ago Apple made a phone, now it is arguably the best mobile phone on the market and iTunes is clocking up billions of transactions. Not just the model works for Apple but the device and the applications that run [...]

What’s important to the Age…

david — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:27:44 +0000

Alright the Age isn’t perfect but sometimes you wonder if their formula for the news couldn’t do with a bit of variety. Here’s the front page, top left corner (the big hitter in web terms) and of all the headlines, down on the bottom right is a little post about our near neighbour, the Philippines.

Somehow [...]