gatewatching

I seem to recall that last year that we copped a bit of stick for suggesting that Larvatus Prodeo was an influential blog. This was, of course, partly premised on Axel’s issuecrawler analysis of issue networks in the Australian blogosphere. The value of this analysis was disputed at the time, by other influential bloggers.
I’ve [...]

UPDATE: Grodscorp’s weekly podcast, this time including discussion of the Blair move, is here. NSFW - frequent coarse language.

I think it’s fair to say that we here at Gatewatching have had an… interesting relationship with Tim Blair’s blog since we started posting here last year. I won’t go over the details of our spat - [...]

The Australian Communications and Media Authority have released their Communications Report for 2006-2007.
ACMA are responsible for regulating broadcasting and communications in Australia. Part of their responsibility is recording and publishing information on the scope of Australia’s communications industires, and the success of broadcasters, telcos and other in meeting their regulatory obligations. This report does [...]

I’m sure many of you have Andrew Landeryou’s “The Other Cheek” in your RSS readers. Those who do will have seen that over this weekend he’s been revealing a story about the Victorian Liberals that he’s calling “blog-gate“. The Sunday Age also wrote this story up today.
Two Liberal staffers, it seems, have been anonymously authoring [...]

Kevin Rennie is one of the really valuable and interesting voices in the Australian blogosphere. Labor View from Broome has for more than a year given the rest of us a real insight into life in one of the most remote and underreported areas in Australia.
One of my abiding concerns about Australia’s blogosphere is [...]

The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance have produced their annual report on Press Freedom in Australia. You can download the Report via Australian Policy Online here. Federal Secretary Chris Warren summarises the findings:
Were this to be a school report card, after years of under achievement this year’s card would still read: “Could do better”, [...]

This could end up rivalling the Keating/Albrechtsen stoush. The reason it’s of interest to Gatewatching is the way it’s played out over on- and offline outlets. It starts with Ellis here on the ABC’s Unleashed, making some possibly ill-advised speculation about the Clintons’ private life. Blair takes exception on his blog. Then [...]

British journalist and blogger Dave Lee wants Google’s famous workplace innovation of “20% time” to be extended to journalists. Google’s scheme allows employees to take a day a week to use their initiative and creativity in projects that go beyond what they’re assigned. Lee argues
If every reporter at every paper had 20 per cent to [...]

Our colleague Terry Flew has a brand spanking new blog. So far, he’s been doing some on-the-ground reporting on the US Primaries (Terry’s in the States on a sabbatical at the moment), but no doubt the blog will come to include Terry’s academic interests, including citizen journalism. Go visit!

…from VOTAY and the story that’s been blown up to fill the front page of today’s Oz is seriously deflated.
As Sarah puts it:
For all the ‘treasury slams Labor’s IR changes’ headlines I’ve been seeing this morning, few of the papers seem to think that the fact that the document in question was dated April 18 [...]