Margaret Simons on Media

Category Archives: Social networking

New Business Models for Free to Air Television

January 13, 2009 – 10:02 am

The problem with writing about the future of television is that most people one approaches for comment have overwhelming vested interests, and this is reflected in the “he says, she says” nature of most mainstream media writing on the topic.
Freeview types want to talk up the future of Free to Air as against Pay. Foxtel [...]

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ABC Opens its Archives – Slowly

January 5, 2009 – 12:52 pm

The richest repository of cultural material in the country would have to be the ABC – so it is exciting and maybe even alarming to hear that Auntie is experimenting with the idea of opening up its archives so that members of the public can access and even re-use and remix the material.
The experiment is [...]

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Israel Uses Twitter for a Media/Citizens’ Conference

January 1, 2009 – 11:40 am

Another interesting new media story from the Courier-Mail’s David Earley, who writes:
“THE Israeli government escalated its PR war this morning when it held a world first “Citizens’ Press Conference” about the Gaza incursion, inviting the world to ask questions on social networking site Twitter.
Even before its scheduled start time questions were being asked of the [...]

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Mainstream Media Came to the Party – Lateish

December 29, 2008 – 3:45 pm

On December 19 near Kings Cross in Sydney a man was detained and threatened with arrest under the Terrorism Act.
How do we know? Not thanks to the mainstream media, but because of Twitter and the blogosphere, including young media workers who are below the radar of most mainstream journalists.
The person who was threatened, new-media-man-about-the-web Nick [...]

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Statistics to mull over on internet use

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 [...]

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