The Pew Research Centre’s New Media Index is publishing some interesting data on the differences between social media, including blogs, and mainstream media outlets in the USA.
The New Media Index monitors and analyses the content on more than 100 million blogs and other social media web pages concerned with national news and public affairs, then [...]
January 30, 2009 – 5:47 pm
An interesting new blog has just started, based in New York’s Greenwich Village and specialising in Aid. We are promised exposes of those who are collecting money but not helping the poor, as well as praise for those that are. The blog, Aid Watch, is by William Easterly who is Professor of Economics at New [...]
January 15, 2009 – 6:56 pm
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the blogosphere, more on the Windschuttle hoax. I like this post by academic Jason Wilson. But then I would say that, wouldn’t I. He agrees with me!
January 8, 2009 – 12:55 pm
I know it’s a journalistic cliche, but for a yarn that is of interest to, perhaps, ten thousand or so Australians the Sharon Gould hoax has it all. As revealed in the Crikey e-mail today, this story has not only cultural warriors, not only cultural mischief making, but also the extra human interest element of [...]
January 2, 2009 – 4:29 pm
I’ve said elsewhere that one of the reasons I am doing this blog is to experiment with the efficacy and sustainability of serving news and views to a niche audience online – the niche audience in this case being journalists, media workers and those who are interested in them. Meta-journalism, if you like.
Well, its been [...]
December 31, 2008 – 1:00 pm
A while ago now I wrote this post responding to an article by Dr Sally Young.
Now Young has responded, and I have responded to her. Read the comments.
I think it is an interesting conversation, and I’m hoping others join in.
December 22, 2008 – 3:01 pm
Inside Story, a new publication on which I have blogged before, has an interesting article by Sally Young, Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne, on changing habits in consuming news.*
I disagree with elements of Young’s essentialy pessimistic analysis. She says:”Even though we are spending more time with media today, we’re [...]
December 11, 2008 – 10:21 am
It’s been a week for banging on in conventional ain’t it awful ways about our major newspaper companies, and while all this is indeed cause for concern and must be documented, it gets my goat, because I don’t really feel gloomy at all about the future of media.
While I know we are going through a [...]
December 8, 2008 – 9:22 pm
The Australian Communications and Media Authority’s annual communications report is out, and as usual is full of meaty statistics on the uses of communications technology.
And the stats make it ludicrous to suggest that journalists can afford to ignore phenomena like social networking and blogging.
Here are a few facts to mull over:
Eighty nine per cent of [...]
