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This morning I ran a quick experiment. I searched through News.com.au’s site for stories that mention Facebook in the title to see what percentage of those stories had…
I went looking for a house cleaner today and ended up on News.com.au’s TrueLocal site. I found someone in my area, clicked on their ad, then tried to…
There’s a fascinating post on Dissident Voice about the battle going on in the UK between the BBC and corporate media who are apparently threatened by the breadth…
The one thing I love even more than 50s SF stories are advertisements from the 50s for Space Age promises. I bought a few copies of "Astounding Science…
Here’s an ad campaign I doubt we’ll see in Australia. Click on the image below to watch the video. Pretty disturbing stuff. I like it a lot.
Bronwen has written a great piece explaining, once again, why newspapers (and the companies behind them) are at the end of the road. Of course the argument for…
Is the Federal Trade Commission in the United States getting ready to use antitrust and copyright laws to protect mainstream media from New Media? This is to be…
Pick any mainstream news brand site – News.com.au or TheAge.com.au – and take a look at the front page. Now, tell me – if you had to pay…
I was doing an email interview with a journo this morning about the introduction of digital radio in Australia and I was asked if I thought, as the…