gatewatching

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

…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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Brisbane.The last AMIC 2008 session this afternoon starts with a paper by my colleague Jason Wilson, our research associate on the Youdecide2007 project and its follow-ups, and he presents especially on the experience and lessons from Youdecide. There may be a need for a structural modification in the role of conventional journalists, and a change [...]

Brisbane.The post-lunch session at AMIC 2008 starts with Zheng Jiawen from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, whose focus is on citizen journalism in China - and particular, on Zola Zhou, popularly recognised as China’s first citizen journalist. Broadly, citizen journalism is a public response to the inadequate performance of the mainstream journalism industry (and rose [...]

Brisbane.I was the first presenter in the next session at AMIC 2008 (and my presentation on citizen journalism in the 2007 Australian federal election is already online here). Hopefully the audio recording worked as well - I’ll add it as soon as possible. The audio from my talk is now online.
Kitty van Vuuren from the [...]