gatewatching

1. It’s very difficult to stop people watching a television programme that’s been broadcast in another State, even if you’ve banned it, and even if it might prejudice court proceedings. (Bloody Internet.)
2. It’s very difficult to keep a Prince’s wherabouts under wraps when the media are globally networked, even if his life depends on it. [...]

Goodness me. There’s a bit of a stoush on the Oz’s website! Janet Albrechtsen wrote a column earlier this week that gave out some advice to Kevin Rudd, and claimed victory in the “Culture Wars”, or argued that they were still going on, or something like that (It’s honestly a little bit hard to tell). [...]

Hi everybody. Ken Parish over at Club Troppo concurred somewhat with Tim Blair’s criticisms of us. I replied in the comments but it got marked as spam so I’m not sure when it’s gonna make it.
Here’s what I wrote.
Hi Ken.
I’m one of the researchers whose work you’re talking about here. Just a matter of housekeeping [...]

For non-Aussies, that’s the ABC’s Sunday Morning serious current affairs show. It’s returned from it’s summer hiatus, and already this morning, Barrie Cassidy has done a sharp interview with erstwhile (and presumably future) Liberal leadership contender Malcolm Turnbull, confronting him with evidence that his colleagues don’t like him very much. All quite entertaining.
I’m enough of [...]

As Posted on the ABC’s Opinion Website last Friday - we’d welcome further comments.
Many of the dust-ups so far between bloggers and the mainstream media (MSM) in Australia have concerned comment, not news.
The kinds of spats we’ve written about previously have been over who exactly has the mortgage on punditry about established stories, social [...]

The election may be over, but our Club Bloggery series for ABC Online continues unabated for now (if perhaps at a pace more commensurate with the impending summer holidays). This week, we take a look back in some degree of anger at the ‘just kidding’ defence for political stunts gone wrong, which was employed several [...]

We’ve now posted the seventh instalment of our ABC series Club Bloggery, covering the online dimensions of the Australian election campaign. Just to mix things up a bit, this week we had a look at what’s been happening on YouTube over the past few weeks, and found that (perhaps unsurprisingly) the more interesting developments are [...]

Hi all - here’s the latest Club Bloggery posted over at the ABC on Friday. The topic seems to have excited a fair amount of interest - feel free to comment here.
Jason Wilson, Axel Bruns, and Barry Saunders
Collectively, the writers here at Club Bloggery have been watching the Australian political blogosphere for years. We know [...]

The fourth instalment of our Club Bloggery series for ABC Online has now been published. Given all the controversy, we couldn’t go past adding our own thoughts about the ‘worm’ incident which has taken up so much of the media limelight following the leaders’ debate last week. Our piece has already been published on the [...]

As well as our regular co-written posts, I thought this blog would be a useful space for some timely practice-based reflections on youdecide2007, and my role there.
Youdecide2007 is the project we’re running with some other folks to create a citizen-led coverage of the 2007 Australian Federal Election.
I’m keenly aware that there are scores [...]