Category: media 2.0

The Future Of Journalism Sep 2008

I was on a panel yesterday at the Future Of Journalism conference in Brisbane. As you can perhaps tell from earleyedition’s tweets, my comments were not well received.…

Newspaper ad sales fall record $3B in 6 mths Sep 2008

I’m one of the speakers at the “Future Of Journalism” conference here in Brisbane tomorrow, which is kind of amusing as I’m the furthest thing you can get…

News.com.au spread Bigfoot hoax Aug 2008

Yep, gotta love that trustworthy media. I can see this one appearing on Media Watch next week. News.com.au is running a story today which claims “Bigfoot body ‘found…

How To Salvage Googlerank: WKP-Spier = Warren Kremer Paino reborn Aug 2008

Remember that New York ad agency that sued a small time blogger when he picked up some mistakes in one of their campaigns for Boston? If you don’t,…

Australian Censorship and Human Rights Aug 2008

I did a show yesterday on China’s censorship and human rights record. A few people have told me that in Australia, we can say what we like and…

Newspapers facing worst year on record Jun 2008

Tony Harris sent me a link to this story in the New York Times which says that this year is shaping up to be the worst on record…

G’Day World #328 – Stephen Mayne Jun 2008

Today I got to chat with another person I admire – Stephen Mayne. As I’m sure most of you will know, Stephen is the founder of Crikey.com.au. These…

A clarion call for digital media entrepreneurs Jun 2008

Paul Ryan asked me to write a story for the June/July issue of Anthill about digital media and entrepreneurship. I ended up writing something about how it seems…

Aussie Startups in Aust Financial Review Jun 2008

Renai LeMay did a story on Aussie start-ups in today’s AFR. But, of course, I can’t link to it online, because the zombies running the Fin still have…

G’Day World #323 – Aubrey de Grey May 2008

In #323 I welcome back a previous G’Day World guest, one of my favourite scientists, Dr Aubrey de Grey. Aubrey is the founder of The Methuselah Foundation, a…