About Facebook
So Facebook is pretty popular, right? So popular your boss might have stuck it behind a firewall — so you can’t right now suck down your share of what is purported to be a $5 billion loss in...
View ArticleCan The Internet Save The World?
2009 will be an interesting year. Aside from being possibly the last chance to deal with climate change before we have to, well, deal with it, there are some interesting, fun, terrifying and worrying...
View ArticleBreaking News: The Internet
Last night I popped over to Melbourne University to see ABC boss Mark Scott deliver the AN Smith Lecture in Journalism. It was your usual Melbourne literary crowd, sprinkled with a few journos and even...
View ArticleThe Naked Truth About Social v Broadcast Media
Had you looked out your window just after 9.30 on Monday night, you may have got a bit of a surprise. Just after Jonathan Holmes, host of ABC’s Media Watch, dropped the magic word "pwned" on camera,...
View ArticleThe Getting Of Digital Wisdom
The Swedish nurse who posted Facebook pictures taken while she was assisting with brain surgery, and the British juror who used Facebook to ask friends whether they thought defendants in a trial were...
View ArticleIs Classic Indie Rock An Oxymoron?
Beloved US indie rockers Pavement recently announced that some of their first reunion shows will be in Australia early in 2010. This shouldn’t be a surprise to fans: the ground has been prepared for a...
View ArticleDoes Hello New Media Mean Goodbye Old Journalism?
I’m feeling very excited about the future of journalism. The lack of a workable business model for newspapers does worry me. I’ve never particularly been taken with the idea that newspapers provide a...
View ArticleWhy I Never Liked Newmatilda.com
As newmatilda.com heads for the archive in the sky, we’ve asked people who’ve worked on publications which have shaken up the Australian media for their thoughts on independent media past and present....
View ArticleHow My Santos Story Got Swiped
The mainstream media constantly complains that online journalists leech off their hard work. But last week, the mainstream media were the parasites. Some weeks ago, I pitched a story to New Matilda...
View ArticleWe Did It! We Broke The Australian's Brain
Like any normal healthy young writer, one of my favourite things in the world is to gloat. When one’s scheming pays off, when one gets to see the enemies one spent so long trying to bring down cowering...
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