December 30, 2008 – 6:37 pm
The Internet has now overtaken all media except television as a source of news, according to a study by the Pew Research Centre in the United States.
The study found that 40 percent of people got most of their news from the internet, up from just 24 per cent in September 2007. More people say they [...]
December 29, 2008 – 1:40 pm
Back to blogging after a few days’ break, and something to chew on for the new year.
A few weeks ago I asked the ABC if it would release the figures on Radio National podcasting and broadcast audience numbers.
Sometimes you ask and you get. The ABC has released these figures.
So far as I know this is [...]
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 16, 2008 – 8:55 am
As he prepares to leave for Doha and his new post, Max Uechtritz sent me some thoughts on how technology is developing and what this means for the ways we think about content – and what it may mean for Fairfax. He writes:
“Thought I’d just let you you can actually watch AlJazeera English [...]
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 9, 2008 – 1:43 pm
“It won’t work. There it is. Flat out. It won’t work.” Nor should it be allowed to work, because it’s dangerous.
So says a friend of mine, David Wright, with a strong interest in the internet filtering legislation presently being planned by Minister for Communications Stephen Conroy.
David Wright spends a lot of his time on the [...]
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 [...]
