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Thinking through Citizen Journalism
(Crossposted from snurb.info - for full coverage of the CCi conference, see here.)
Brisbane.The post-lunch session at the CCi conference starts for me with a panel on citizen journalism which involves my colleague Jason Wilson from Youdecide2007 (and Gatewatching.org), Larvatus Prodeo’s Mark Bahnisch, and Graham Young from Online Opinion. Their theme is the role of citizen [...]
Burchell on bloggers, or, blogophobia.
Gary Sauer-Thompson alerts us today to a very, very peculiar piece by David Burchell on something he calls the “political blogosphere”. Burchell’s version doesn’t much resemble the one I know. I’ll quote a little:
At other times it seems the wheels of the political blogosphere are greased with the oil of personal vitriol.
Indeed, on one view [...]
NAB-gate part 2: Advice to McCain also applies to banks.
This is a follow-up to the other day’s post, and the first of two that nicks stuff from the always stimulating Tree of Knowledge
Via TOK comes some advice from Todd Zeigler on John McCain’s “spread the word” campaign, which has been seen by bloggers as a toolkit for outright trolling. (Go to the [...]
The Blogosphere’s Newspoll ritual.
Newspoll Tuesday has become a bit of an occasion in the Australian blogosphere. The influence of the pseph bloggers, the moments of antagonism between the blogosphere and the Oz last year, the motivation to enter into further fruitful dialogue with Dennis Shanahan, and the urge to take Dr Nelson’s temperature have meant that most of [...]
Bank botches blogosphere break-in: NAB’s “spam-gate”
Today’s Crikey carries a story about the NAB (or rather a PR firm representing them, Cox&Inall) spamming Australian blogs with promotional comments. Rather than impotence treatments or naughty pictures, this spam (posted on sports blogs) was inviting blog readers to enter a promotion being run for the bank. The story is behind the Crikey paywall, [...]
Possum gives back - The Possum Box sails forth
Along with his fellow pseph bloggers, Possum Comitatus made a big splash during the Federal Election campaign, and he now has a loyal, politically literate readership. Now he’s giving some more back to the Australian blogosphere.
On the weekend, he launched a companion site for his blog, the Possum Box, that he’s thrown open as a [...]
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