A post has just gone up on the Google corporate blog indicating that the company has compromised a little in its dealings with the Chinese authorities. Those who follow these things will remember that in March Google announced that it had decided to withdraw its agreement to censor search results in China. This followed the company [...]
The long running process of setting up ABC Open – Auntie’s innovative program under which citizens in regional areas will be assisted to tell their own stories using digital technology and Web 2.0 - is at an end. Today the ABC has announced who the producers will be and where they will be based. The [...]
Another few thousand words from The Australian today, on page six and in the editorial, justifying its position and attacking all its critics, including me. As well as implying that no journalist until now had looked properly at the issue of corruption in Victoria. Extraordinary stuff. There’s not much I feel I need to say. [...]
Many of you will have seen some coverage in today’s newspapers about action against the Wikileaks site. I opened up my email this evening, and found the below message from the Editor in Chief, the elusive Julian Assange. I had been trying to get hold of Assange recently on another matter. I assume that is [...]
Those who follow the media will have seen that I am the subject of an attack in The Media section of The Australian today. I have just returned from a long weekend away out of email and telephone contact (which can certainly help put things in perspective after a torrid week), so did not receive [...]
The criminal courts are likely to be the scene of the next episode in the thorny saga of how The Australian newspaper reported leaked information on the Operation Neath anti terrorism raids last year. Yesterday the Australian and the Victorian Office of Police Integrity settled their case before the Federal Court after a morning of tough [...]
I have been a critic of the ABC’s ability to break news in the past, while also noting that the seriously good Four Corners program on Securency a couple of weeks ago showed that Auntie is getting better at cross-platform promotion and making the best of what it’s got. Last week ABC Media Watch presenter [...]
