by cameron | Aug 21, 2007 | Australian media, Australian politics, Podcast
Jack Marx wrote a popular blog called THE DAILY TRUTH for Fairfax, a large, old and very, very tired Australian media organization. In 2006 he won a very prestigious Australian media award (a Walkley) for one of his posts. However the paper sacked him a couple of days ago (on his birthday no less) for a satirical post he wrote about the Australian Federal Opposition Leader’s visit to a New York strip club. What is perhaps even worse than the sacking, according to News.com.au, the editor-in-chief of Fairfax Digital, Mike Van Niekerk, told a rival paper that “this was just the latest in a long line of indiscretions”. Jack says if this is true, it’s the first he’s heard about it. Should he sue Fairfax for defamation?
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by cameron | Aug 21, 2007 | Australian media, Melbourne
Newspapers, a 19th century global social networking craze, could cost employers up to $5 billion a year in productivity.
The persistence of the “offline internet” in workplaces has resulted in more time-wasting by employees.
It could also open businesses to criminals and legal liability, analysis by internet security firm TPN says.
The data found if one employee spent an hour a day of company time reading newspapers, it could cost their employer more than $6200 a year.
Projected across the 800,000 businesses with one or more employees in Australia, this one wasted hour a day equalled productivity losses of more than $5 billion a year.
There are more than 2 million newspaper readers across the country, with reportedly more than 100 Australians joining the phenomenon each hour.
With many readers reading during work hours, productivity loss was not the only drawback, TPN CEO Cameron Reilly said.
“Criminals will no doubt be targeting newspaper readers as an attack mechanism because of (its) popularity and power as a platform,” Reilly said.
“It’s only a matter of time before a security loophole is discovered and exploited.”
Many companies were placing blanket bans on newspapers, created by some old rich white guy in 1786.
But account director Joan Smith from marketing communications agency Haypizzle, whose employees were reading newspapers, said the phenomena had reshaped the media landscape and was now regarded as a powerful business tool.
“It’s important for a marketing communications agency to be on the pulse with new and emerging social media platforms such as The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and The New York Times,” Ms Smith said.
“Newspapers like The New York Times enable us to connect with our clients, media representatives and our 40 plus staff in our Sydney and Melbourne offices.”
Despite newspaper’s negative side, Reilly said it could also be a boon for business.
“A lot of enlightened employers are encouraging newspaper reading as part of the working experience because it makes people want to be at work longer,” he said.
“There needs to be awareness and education on the part of the employer as to what is the appropriate level of use.”
(This is a satirical post pointing out the level of bullshit being spread about Facebook by sites like News.com.au – link)
by cameron | Aug 20, 2007 | Melbourne, Podcast, Video
Shekhar Kapur, born 6 December 1945 in British India (in an area which became part of Pakistan) is a renowned filmmaker from India. His works include Elizabeth (1998), Bandit Queen (1994) and his new film, Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007).
He writes a very revealing blog (link) and is trying to raise $1 Billion for a new media fund for investment in Asia (link). He was recently at the X | MEDIA | LAB in Melbourne. I captured an interview he did on stage with XML founder, Brendan Harkin.
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by cameron | Aug 20, 2007 | Australian media, Australian politics
Mike Van Niekerk does it again. Barely a month since James Farmer left Fairyfax as the guy running their blogs,
blogger Jack Marx gets sacked for writing what everyone is thinking about Kevin Rudd. Well I guess we know the lay of the land now people. News Corp is voting Libs and FairyFax are voting ALP. Let the games begin!
This just goes to show what we all know about “old” media – they are “old”. They say “hey! we get new media! we have blogs!” but then they play the same tired old political games they have always played, censoring and editing their content to suit the agenda of their fat, white, rich corporate bosses. Okay – Rupert is hardly fat. But you get my point.
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MEDIA group Fairfax today sacked award-winning blogger Jack Marx after he posted a satirical article imagining what Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd got up to in a New York strip club.
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by cameron | Aug 20, 2007 | Uncategorized
Chris Pirillo tested out bringing in Skype video onto his Ustream show today by getting me chatting about my recent Windows Vista disasters. Check out the image below. Pretty cool stuff, the way he is pulling in live video. I wish I had a way of doing that.
by cameron | Aug 20, 2007 | TPN
It has just been brought to my attention that Podshow seem to still be sucking up TPN feeds and adding them to their directory. Which would be fine, I don’t mind additional exposure, except for this clause in their Terms:
By posting your Member Works on the Member Pages, you are granting PodShow a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, and worldwide license to use your Member Works in connection with the operation of the PodShow Websites, including, without limitation, the license rights to copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, translate and reformat your Blog Works, and/or to incorporate it into a collective work.
Funnily enough, I’m not pleased with that clause. Not to mention that our podcasts clearly state that they are produced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license, part of which states “Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.”. And I do believe Podshow is a commercial operation. So they are in breach of our license.
And, on top of that, their directory is broken. According to Podshow, the last episode of G’Day World, and many other of our podcasts, was back in May 2007. WTF? They have raised $24 million from VC and they can’t even get their website to work? What is that?
So anyway, I’ll be sending them an email today asking them to cease and desist. I suggest other podcasters make sure they do the same.
by cameron | Aug 19, 2007 | Uncategorized
Chris and the folks at Digial Ministry have stopped allowing people to register for their Facebook group just below the 1000 cutoff and have listed their reasons on their site. Interesting position. I personally don’t think Facebook groups are very useful at the moment. I find them incredibly difficult to monitor. It isn’t user friendly at all. All they have going for them is the incredibly viral nature of them. I suspect they will get better in the not-too-distant-future though.
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h) Finally – and this is really the biggie… If we had put our brand and hard work on the line and invited ALL of our existing community members to go join the groups on Facebook… or spent marketing $ on promoting an application on your behalf.. without first finding out the above issues: Would we have made a big mistake that we may not recover from by handing you our users, budget and content? OR – would we find that in the end, we still have a large Knowledge IP advantage and back-up infrastructure over the new “Facebook click-and-build” barons who do not have this advantage of learning? We reckon the former.
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by cameron | Aug 19, 2007 | Uncategorized
Well it looks like Rupert has chosen – the Coalition will win the next federal election. And it’s straight out of The Godfather Part II. Remember when Tom Hagen ‘discovers’ Senator Geary with the dead hooker and offers to ‘help’? In Rudd’s case, one of Rupert’s stooges, New York Post editor Col Allan, took him out to a strip club in NY in 2003. And now that information has mysteriously made it into a Murdoch newspaper. A shame it didn’t come out BEFORE Rudd spoke to the Christian Lobby last week. Without News Corp’s backing, it’s going to be very difficult for Rudd in the run up to the election. The character assassination has already started. If he’s lucky, this is just a warning shot and he’ll realize he has to tow the line. I would love to know what it’s about. Didn’t Rudd meet with Rupert on his most recent trip to NY?
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A ‘perfect gentleman’
Mr Allan (an employee of News Corporation, parent company of the publisher of NEWS.com.au) then confirmed he and the Opposition Leader had been to a “gentlemen’s club”.
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by cameron | Aug 18, 2007 | science
Cait pointed to this on Twitter. There is some debate in the article about the interpretation of the data, and it isn’t the first time I’ve seen researchers claim to have broken the speed of light (I remember having an email conversation with Aussie physicist Paul Davies about the teleportation of an electron about 7 years ago) but just the very idea that the speed of light isn’t a fundamental barrier in physics could open up a lot of possibilities, especially for intergalactic travel… one day.
The two scientists say they have now tunneled photons “instantaneously” across a distance of up to one meter. Their conclusion, stated in a recent paper, is that the speed limit of special relativity has been violated. Dr. Nimtz claims quantum tunneling is a little understood process that is “the most important” aspect of quantum physics, one that may be responsible for the computational efficiency of the human brain. |
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by cameron | Aug 18, 2007 | Melbourne, Podcast, Video
On August 10 2007 I attended the X|Media|Lab in Melbourne and had the opportunity to interview a number of the key speakers. I’ll be putting those interviews up over the next week. This first one is with Brendan Harkin, the Founder and Director of X|Media|Lab.
Brendan founded X|Media|Lab in June 2003. X|Media|Lab is the internationally acclaimed cross-disciplinary creative thinktank for digital media professionals which brings together some of the world’s outstanding creatives, executives, and power-brokers to work as mentors with local companies on their own digital media project ideas.
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