Category: media 2.0

Wikileaks Proves You Can’t Trust The Obama Pentagon Apr 2010

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1] (via Wikileaks, probably the most exciting news operation on the planet at the moment)

News Corp’s Facebook Scare Campaign Apr 2010

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…

TrueLocal Advertisers Deserve A Refund Oct 2009

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…

a “debate” confined between two false poles Sep 2009

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…

Book Your Round Trip to the Moon! Guaranteed! Sep 2009

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…

AIDS is a mass murderer Sep 2009

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.

Bad news for newspapers Sep 2009

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…

The Coming Media Bailout Aug 2009

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…

Here’s my thinking about news “paywalls” Aug 2009

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…

UK Radio Still In Decline Five Years AFTER Digital Aug 2009

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…