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Monthly Archives: March 2009

Baby Boomers lead the way in social media

March 24, 2009 – 6:59 am

Baby Boomers (those born 1946-1964) are the fastest growing users of social networking sites and are also increasingly reading blogs too. Meanwhile, Gen Y interest in these services has plateaued. This all according to the latest Consumer Electronics Usage Survey from Accenture.
via Micro Persuasion: Social Networking Demographics: Boomers Jump In, Gen Y Plateaus.

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An excellent look at who uses social media

March 22, 2009 – 6:45 pm

Social Media. Draws on recent research and offers some user typologies

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Steve Keen cries wolf again

March 22, 2009 – 10:57 am

AUSTRALIA is facing its own version of the US sub-prime housing crisis, with thousands of young homeowners risking bankruptcy as a result of Kevin Rudd’s economic stimulus package.
That is the grim warning from the economic expert who first called the debt crisis that is driving the global financial meltdown.
Dubbing the looming crisis “Sub-Prime Lite,” Professor [...]

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The juror tweeted – what was he thinking?

March 17, 2009 – 8:08 pm

A building materials company and its owner have appealed a $12.6 million verdict against them, alleging that a juror was posting related messages on Twitter.com while hearing the case.
The motion filed Thursday seeking a new trial claims the juror sent eight messages — or “tweets” — to the micro-blogging Web site via his cellular phone. [...]

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer becomes the first to fall

March 17, 2009 – 5:11 pm

The 146-year-old Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper is to become the first major US paper to go solely online.
The paper will print its final edition today after its owner failed to find a buyer.
The website will be run solely as a source of local news and opinion, rather than an internet incarnation of the former newspaper.
There will [...]

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What makes a geek giggle?

March 16, 2009 – 3:46 pm

From 10 annoying habits of a geeky spouse:
5. Wearing obscurely geeky T-shirts to “normal” places - Every geek has at least a few of these; don’t try to deny it. We love them, because we get the jokes and we know that only other geeks will get them, too. Unfortunately, they can make our less geeky [...]

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Bolt’s early morning Lebanese ramblings

March 16, 2009 – 3:34 pm

Facebook | Media Mullah: BLOG: Some groups ….
At 6:16am this morning, Andrew Bolt seemed to have discovered that crime bosses can change their religious affiliation even when they’re dead. Andrew arose to blog about the murder of a Sydney drug boss. He cited this Daily Telegraph article which named Sydney crime figures Abdul Qadier Darwiche, Danny Karam and Michael [...]

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Looking back at the bear

March 16, 2009 – 2:19 pm

The NY Times commemorates the first anniversary of the start of the global financial crisis with op-eds from five

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Migration slowdown? Sorry, think again

March 16, 2009 – 11:52 am

The headlines scream about reductions in immigration to save aussie jobs. Sounds dramatic right? And great spin for a Government that is in the gun for talking about protecting jobs but is accused of doing bugger all about it.
In May last year the Rudd Government increased the target for skilled migration for 2008-09 from 102,500 [...]

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Hanson photos: Will News Ltd have to do their own explaining?

March 16, 2009 – 8:08 am

Yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph was a corker – nude photos of Pauline Hanson – can it get any better than that? Editor, and tabloid king, Neil Breen would have been spinning cartwheels at the income-generating potential of this ’scoop’.
But is it true? Hanson was on Alan Jones’s program, her preferred media outlet, before 7am this morning [...]

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