gatewatching

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 [...]

Brisbane.The second day of the AMIC conference has now started, and we begin with a keynote from Vipul Kant Upadhay, the CEO and Editor in Chief of Merinews.com in India. This site is now the largest Internet news portal in the country, and builds very significantly on citizen journalism. Vipul begins by noting that he [...]

Brisbane. We’re now in the opening session of the AMIC conference “Convergence, Citizen Journalism and Social Change“. Today is just a short afternoon with a couple of keynote speeches; tomorrow, the bulk of the papers (including my colleague Jason Wilson’s and mine) will be presented. Pradip Thomas from the University of Queensland is offering some [...]

This post was triggered in a somewhat roundabout way - Paul Bradshaw over at Online Journalism Blog picks up on a report from the Digital News Affairs conference, covering a speech by Digital Editor Ed Roussel from the Telegraph Media Group in the U.K. The key quote from Roussel’s speech:

“In dismissing the idea (perhaps a [...]

Jeff Jarvis smacks down the American media’s love for (and lack of skill at) horse race politics:
It’s amazing that reporters love horse-race coverage since they’re so damned lousy at it…
Any idiot can bet on a horse and lose. And there’s a word for them. Losers.
While we’ve also been quite critical here about the Australian [...]

One of the most consistently… bracing political blogs is Andrew Elder’s clearing-house for the foibles of the commentariat, Politically Homeless.
I haven’t had time to have a good solid read of his stuff for a while - a comment from The Doctor on a previous Gatewatching post led me to have a squiz this evening.
His stuff [...]

Among the consequences of the emergence of the opinion-led blogosphere are, on the one hand, news organisations bringing prominent bloggers “inside the tent”, and on the other, presenting their op-ed writers work in a “blog-like” format. Whether you think that’s just due recognition of the affordances of blogging and the ’sphere’s emerging talent, or [...]

Well, maybe not ever ever, but as a Queenslander it’s hard not to think that tonight’s edition was important for revisiting a turning-point in our State’s history. Four premiers were interviewed, and there was some overdue credit for unlikely heroes like Mike Ahern, who realised the State needed to change, and made it happen at [...]

Our latest piece is up at the ABC here Feel free to comment there or here.

Club Bloggery: Once were barons
By Axel Bruns, Jason Wilson, and Barry Saunders
The Bulletin magazine, published by ACP, has closed down after almost 130 years of publishing.
Though we often give the print media a hard time here at Club Bloggery, [...]

In the Outsiders post earlier today, I mentioned that Possum said he was bringing his regular service back online after a short break in the real world. He has delivered immediately with a reply to The Australian’s Dennis Shanahan’s criticism of the psephosphere last week.
Read Shanahan’s column first, then proceed directly to Possum’s post.
We’ve written [...]