gatewatching

In his recent post on mainstream newspapers’ gradual warming to Google as a source of traffic to their Websites, Jason points to Matthew Hindman’s claims that descriptions of the Net as ‘democratising’ media participation may be overstated (in Hindman’s book manuscript Voice, Equality, and the Internet), and notes my skeptical stance towards Hindman’s conclusions. Heh. [...]

New post on the ABC’s Opinion Page is cross-posted over the fold. There’s some other great stuff there today, including a piece on a useful possible running-mate for Barry O’Bama

Andrew Landeryou responds this morning to a bizarre intervention by Neil Mitchell in the blog-gate affair, where he suggests that the Liberal bloggers should be prosecuted for “cyber-bullying”.
It leads Landeryou to offer a colourful call to arms, where he suggests that the activities of  Australia’s blogosphere point towards a potential “golden age of political journalism”. [...]

One of the topics that consistently exercises the Australian blogosphere is global warming. What’s at issue, of course, is whether or not human, industrial activity is contributing to an increase in global temperatures, and possible environmental catastrophe.
There is an orthodox scientific view on this, as expressed in documents like the IPCC Report, the Stern Report, [...]

The discussion about the influence of Australian political bloggers on wider political processes which was kicked off by Jason’s recent posts on Tim Blair’s move to the Daily Telegraph and Christian Kerr’s summary dismissal of Ozblogistan’s political combattants in The Australian has prompted me to finally post up some more information about the research we’re [...]

There’s budget coverage all over the blogosphere - too much to link to for a busy boy.
All I shall say on the matter is that I would have liked a little more revolution with my education, but I’m not surprised I didn’t get it.

Shaping the future of the newspaper is an excellent source of news and think-pieces on how new platforms are affecting well… the future of newspapers.
Anyway, today there’s a piece by Erina Lin on how Google search, and aggregators like Yahoo! News and Google News, have benefited newspapers. The story smells a little of a Google [...]

I got somethin’ in New Matilda today reporting on my recent travels to conferences at home and abroad. There’s a cross-post over the fold, but you should go there instead and read the other stuff on the site while you’re at it.

UPDATE: Lyn Calcutt over on Public Opinion takes up this theme, is much harder on CK than us, but makes some fair points along the way.
UPDATE 2: One of those points being, of course, that it was a blogger who broke the story in the first place.
UPDATE 3: Tree of Knowledge is onto this [...]

A little while back, during the AMIC Conference, I was at an after-dinner presentation by a honcho from Fairfax Online. I asked whether they write news with RSS Readers in mind. She said that folk who take their news through RSS Feeds are pretty well an elite minority in Australia, and they’re not really taken [...]