gatewatching

Nice post by Graham over at Ambit Gambit on Brendan Nelson’s shaky performance at the Brisbane Club yesterday.

I guess I should disclose again that Graham is a colleague in our Industry Linkage Project. Putting that aside, this is the kind of blogging that I’d nominate as citizen journalism, as distinct from gatewatching metacommentary on the MSM agenda. Graham has gone into a forum where the MSM either can’t or won’t go and has given us a stylish, first-hand snapshot of Brendan Nelson’s current efforts to sell himself and his agenda to a sceptical electorate.

(I’d suggest that if a Liberal leader has trouble convincing the audience at the Brisbane Club, he’s likely to have ongoing trouble, but that’s by the by).

citizen journalism

This is a quick return post after a long and excellent adventure for me, which took in the “Politics and Web 2.0″ conference at Royal Holloway in the UK, and the Future of Journalism conference down in Sydney last week. I’ll post more extensively on these a little later on, but for now I’m going through Google reader, checking what I’ve missed blog-wise since I’ve been away.

It occurs to me as I’m reading through the RSS feed that many of the blogs I read closely are not necessarily on the A-list of Australian blogs - the kind that get most of MSM attention and in-links, and which are talked about more extensively at the kinds of conferences and conventions I’ve been attending.

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blogging, citizen journalism