G’Day World #12 2005-11-28
Quick notes from the car after speaking at the Film Victoria Financing Summit.
Content is King
Margaret Simons from The Age attended the Australian Communications and Media Authority comference that Mick Stanic spoke at a couple of weeks ago and she has written a very insightful piece in today’s Age. We get a mention towards the end of the article:
New media cannot rely on audience habit. Therefore they must be truly content-driven to gain an audience.
Take a look at some of the sites and you will see what I mean. There is the world’s first on-line content portal for the independent film and music industry, boostdigital.com, for example. Or the podcast network, thepodcastnetwork.com, an Australian business that started this year and which already has 36 channels with 100,000 listeners in 150 countries, and is showing a profit.
There are great risks in the new media world but also great opportunities. Those who understand the power of content – of story – hold the future in their hands.
G’Day World #11 2005-11-25
I’m thinking a lot these days about what I can do to give back something to my local community. My discussions with folks like Father Bob, Mike Seyfang and Mark Keogh have helped inspire my thinking. On today’s show, I share my thoughts on the subject and tell you a little about what I’m going to be contributing over the next year.
G’Day World #10 2005-11-22
Today’s rant.
You know I just realised that this is only G’Day World #10. Ten!! Ten stinkin’ shows?? In a year?? Ten shows that didn’t involve interviews. Man… that’s just slack.
Today I’m talking about:
Doc Searls’ article “Saving The Net”.
Chris Anderson’s comments on the continuing decline in traditional media.
James Bamford’s article “The Man Who Sold The War”
The BBC’s report that the US army used “white phosphorus” as a weapon in Iraq.
GDay World On The Pod #60 – David Weinberger
“HYPERLINKS SUBVERT HIERARCHIES”
My guest today was the guy who popularised that statement, although he doesn’t take credit for coming up with it.
For my 60th G’DAY WORLD interview, I had the great pleasure this morning of chatting with David Weinberger! I was also fortunate enough to attend his presentation at BlogOn2005 last month and it was fantastic. He’s a smart, articulate, funny, self-deprecating guy, who also happens to be a “Fellow” at Harvard (I asked him to explain what the hell that actually means… apparently it doesn’t pull the chicks) and, of course, one of the co-authors of the bible, The Cluetrain Manifesto.
For those of you who STILL haven’t heard of Cluetrain, here’s a quick description from Wikipedia:
The Cluetrain Manifesto is a set of 95 theses organised and put forward as a manifesto, or call to action, for all businesses operating within what is suggested to be a newly connected marketplace. The ideas put forward within the manifesto aim to examine the impact of the Internet on both markets (consumers) and organisations. In addition, as both consumers and organisations are able to utilise the Internet and Intranets to establish a previously unavailable level of communication both within and between these two groups, the manifesto suggests that the changes that will be required from organisations as they respond to the new marketplace environment.
Long time G’DAY WORLD listeners might recall that we had Doc Searls, another of the Cluetrain authors, on the show waaaaay back in January 2005, before most of you even knew what a podcast was I bet! If you haven’t listened to that interview, you should! It makes a nice companion piece to this one. David even felt required to mention Doc’s name every 20 minutes. 🙂
Some of the things we talked about:
> The Long Tail meme
> Clay Shirky
> Doc Searls
> Christopher Locke
> JD Lasica’s book “Darknet”
> John Battelle’s book “The Search”
> Information Replaces Relationships
> Sony’s DRM problems
> Thomas Vanderwal and the concept of “folksonomy”
Finally – make sure you check out David’s last book, Small Pieces Loosely Joined, and keep an eye out for his next one coming out in 2007, Everything Is Miscellaneous, by subscribing to JOHO THE BLOG.
G’Day World 2005-11-16
Today’s rant.
This is different. This is new. Don’t confuse this with anything that’s happened in the past. There are good reasons why citizen media is different to what’s happened before. In this rant I explain some of the reason why.
Let’s make sure we don’t screw it up through greed or short-sightedness. Let’s make sure we don’t Miramax it. Anyone interested in the future of indy media should read :
Down and Dirty Pictures : Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film
because I think there are LOTS of parallels.