Australia’s Top 100 Journalists and News Media People on Twitter
UPDATE: The list that appeared here had grown to several hundred Twitter accounts, so I have retitled it and reposted in full as 501 Australian Journalists and News Media People on Twitter. Visit that post to see a larger list of Australian media people on Twitter, and add yourself in the comments. To more accurately reflect this post's title, Australia's Top 100 Journalists and News Media People on Twitter, the list here has been trimmed back to who I consider to be the top 100 Australian journalists and news media people on Twitter. News Limited @jg_rat John Grey - editor couriermail.com.au @jendudley Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson - ...
Recording Devices in the Queensland Magistrates Courts
Image via WikipediaA recent change to the Queensland Magistrates Courts practice directions means members of the media can now use a personal recording device in the courtroom "to maintain accuracy in the reporting of court proceedings".
Does the Experience Curve apply to Journalism?
Just read this, linked from Twitter by news.com.au deputy editor Paul Colgan, and had to post it immediately. I'm not saying "experience" is what's wrong with journalism today, but experience could be what's wrong with journalism today. The experience curve was simple and powerful. But it had one troublesome characteristic. Every experience curve was in the end a diminishing returns curve. The more experience accumulated in a specific industry, the longer it took to get the next increment of performance improvement. Does the Experience Curve Matter Today? The Big Shift - Harvard Business Just shut up and do your bit as ...
An experiment in Mobile Journalism or MoJo
Image by inju via Flickr In January I experimented with a little mobile journalism, or MoJo, on a small story. Using Qik on a Dopod mobile phone, I live streamed video from the scene of a unit fire on Brisbane's south side. This was by no means an experiment in mobile journalism that even basically covered how MoJo could be done, it was simply a spur of the moment decision to give it a go. These are my thoughts on the process.
NBN to roll out 100mbps – so why are 16 per cent of Australians still on dialup?
Image by Twilight Jones via Flickr Last week the Australian Bureau of Statistics released their Internet Activity Survey for the December quarter of 2008. According to the ABS release, their highlight was that wireless broadband subscription across Australia has tripled in just one year, from 481,000 in December 07 to 1.46 million in December 08, which is great. Looking into the numbers, that massive jump in wireless broadband takeup represents 979,000 new subscribers, more than the entire country's overall growth of 891,000 internet subscribers in the 12 month period (7.1 to 7.99 million). If the numbers don't seem to add ...
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501 Australian Journalists and News Media People on Twitter
This list was originally contained in the post, Australia’s Top 100 Journalists and News Media People on Twitter. That post has been trimmed back to just 100 Twitter accounts...
Australia’s Top 100 Journalists and News Media People on Twitter
UPDATE: The list that appeared here had grown to several hundred Twitter accounts, so I have retitled it and reposted in full as 501 Australian Journalists and News Media People on...
Interview with Dave Earley on Citizen Journalism
Image via Wikipedia Stephanie Sword, a Griffith University communications student, asked me a few questions for an assignment. Below are Stephanie’s questions and my answers...
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Decline, yes. Fall? Maybe not.
Given the timing, this post may seem like a response to Round 4 of Public Broadcasters vs Rupert Murdoch, otherwise known as ABC managing director Mark Scott’s speech at the AN Smith...
Value Archived News
With all the talk about whether the content of newspapers is of a quality the public will be willing to pay for online, it took a search of our paper’s archives recently to remind...
The Pear Analytics Twitter “babble”
This is just a collection of relevant links about the study that claimed 40% of Twitter is just “babble”. To be clear from the outset, the study is flawed, or full of crap. Had...
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Decline, yes. Fall? Maybe not.
Given the timing, this post may seem like a response to Round 4 of Public Broadcasters vs Rupert Murdoch, otherwise known as ABC managing director Mark Scott’s speech at the AN Smith Memorial Lecture in Journalism the other night. It’s not. Instead, it’s a response to a journal article that was published three months ago. Geoffrey Barker wrote... [Read more of this post]
Value Archived News
With all the talk about whether the content of newspapers is of a quality the public will be willing to pay for online, it took a search of our paper’s archives recently to remind me that … it is. It’s not necessarily the quality of the individual story (although that’s obviously there), but of the narrative – the archive –... [Read more of this post]
The Pear Analytics Twitter “babble”
This is just a collection of relevant links about the study that claimed 40% of Twitter is just “babble”. To be clear from the outset, the study is flawed, or full of crap. Had anyone read the original blog post, it would have been plainly obvious the Pear Analytics study was just a shill for some Twitter attention management company who... [Read more of this post]
The business model for news is not being saved
The newspaper business model will not be saved with the introduction of paywalls because it is a rejection of the newspaper business model. The current model, entirely based on advertising paying for news, is in the process of being left behind by those who would defend it. It is worrying that users will now be made to pay for news simply because marketing... [Read more of this post]
Twitter threatens legal action against third party developer
A third party Twitter developer in New York has discovered the hard way that Twitter may now be playing tough, threatening to aggressively “take whatever steps are necessary” to protect their rights. Lawyers representing Twitter have demanded the developer deactivate his website, transfer the domain to Twitter and cease using the API or... [Read more of this post]
How much unique content is out there?
Last week Rupert Murdoch announced that News Corporation would push ahead with the introduction of pay-per-view online content. Since then there have been suggestions Fairfax would follow, and the Boston Globe’s boston.com has also started to head in that direction. My question is, “How much unique content is out there?” The arguments in... [Read more of this post]
Back from the dead
After two weeks in exile, the dark wilderness of a suspended website, Read More →
501 Australian Journalists and News Media People on Twitter
This list was originally contained in the post, Australia’s Top 100 Journalists and News Media People on Twitter. That post has been trimmed back to just 100 Twitter accounts to more accurately reflect the post title. The original list has been reposted in full here, with even more additions taking it beyond 500 Twitter accounts listed. Read on… That... [Read more of this post]
Update
Julie Posetti was kind enough to link to this site from a recent PBS MediaShift article, Rules of Engagement for Journalists on Twitter. Unfortunately, I’ve managed to make the list of journalists she linked to completely disappear. UPDATE: The list is back online, thanks to ireckon.com fixing some rogue code for me. Thanks Darryl!! I made the... [Read more of this post]
Australian internet traffic doubles in two years, up 37 times over 8 years
As part of the ABS Internet Survey released the other week, it’s interesting to see total data downloaded in Australia has more than doubled in two years. Out of the two posts I was writing from that survey this post was to be the more substantive. The first post was NBN to roll out 100mbps – so why are 16 per cent of Australians still on... [Read more of this post]
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