We are all news aggregators nowNews aggregating isn’t just the realm of sites like HuffPo anymore, argues Gillian Reagan — the “online revolution” borne from the protests in Iran have shown that everyone participating in social media is doing their part.
June, 2009
Google is a ‘digital vampire’, says WSJ publisher
By profiting from content it doesn’t produce, Google is “sucking the blood” out of the newspaper industry, says Wall Street Journal publisher Les Hinton.
Michael Jackson confirmed dead
According to TMZ, performer Michael Jackson is dead at 50, after going into a cardiac arrest. The LA Times has pronounced him dead too. Police are yet to confirm the story.
A revolutionary history of Iran
The current uprising is all just a little bit of history repeating for Iran, a country which has been shaped by a series of revolutions and government upheavals throughout its modern history.
Farrah Fawcett: America’s golden girl dies
TIME pays tribute to actress Farrah Fawcett, who died at age 62 today after a battle with cancer.
Same sex marriage: polling at odds with Parliament
Polling shows our political representatives are far, far behind the curve of public opinion when it comes to the legal recognition of same sex marriages in Australia, writes Possum Comitatus.
Anna Politkovskaya murder to be retried
Russia’s Supreme Court has overturned the acquittal of three suspects in the controversial 2006 killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, a murder many suspect to have been at the behest of the Kremlin.
Breakfast Media Wrap: Turnbull the biter to be bitten? $10m grant challenged
The pick of the morning’s media
Why Roy Morgan is like Seinfeld‘s Soup Nazi
Roy Morgan Research is like the Soup Nazi, says Pacific Magazines’ Nick Chan: “the service is crap but the soup is the best.”
Deal with methane before CO2
Reducing CO2 emissions is vital, but other greenhouse gases, such as methane, are increasingly having more impact on the climate. We already have the technology to reduce methane, so why not take care of that first?
Alice Springs: a multitude of factual errors and distortions
In the the poisonous atmosphere of small-town Northern Territory politics the combination of blackfellas, money and complex corporate structures are bound to attract some negative attention, writes Bob Gosford.
Goodbye Hard Knocks, hello Choir of Hope and Inspiration
Last weekend, The Artists Formerly Known as the Choir of Hard Knocks sang for their supper at Costa Hall in Geelong, Victoria.
Burger King offers 7 inches of hot meat
Check out Burger King’s “embarrassingly bad” new ad campaign. It will “blow your mind” *shudder*.
Why Sarkozy wants to ban the burqa
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has made waves with his calls to ban the burqa from being worn in public. His sentiments are caught up in a collision of French feminism, nationalism and secularism.
VIDEO: What next in Iran?
Iranian forces have targeted the family of Neda, the woman whose death video has become symbolic of the protest movement, reports Rachel Maddow, who picks through the story so far.
Afghanistan: what about the local journos?
With all the pandemonium surrounding the escape of The New York Times’ David Rohde, has no-one given thought to the Afghani journalists who deal with the threat of kidnapping every day?
Senator Boswell: does Rudd hate small business?
Australia is run on the steam of small and medium business, says Nationals Senator Ron Boswell. So where are their concessions under the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme?
12 things so boring they should be free
BUYING SOCKS IS SO DAMN BORING AND I CANNOT BEAR TO SPEND A SINGLE CENT ON THEM, wails Mia Freedman. Here are some other things that you shouldn’t have to waste money on.
Hugo loves Mahmoud
Most world leaders have refused to congratulate Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his contentious victory — but not Hugo Chávez, who loudly applauded his “very big and important victory”.
PODCAST: Have British MPs lost touch?
The expenses scandal said a lot, but the BBC has more with this podcast detailing political group think, justifying bad behaviour in Britain’s ruling class.
Steve’s not buying man-made global warming
Well you can’t say Crikey didn’t try to sell climate change to Family First Senator Steve Fielding.
Art for beauty’s sake
We must rescue art from the modern intoxication with ugliness, demands Roger Scruton.
How four women with body dysmorphic disorder see themselves
The photos on the right of each woman have been digitally altered by them to illustrate exactly what they see in the mirror.
Ethiopian troops return to Somalia
Less than a year after fleeing in the face of an Islamist insurgency, Ethiopian forces have come back to help prevent a moderate government from collapsing at the hands of militant Islamists.
Stoned wallabies, not aliens, damaging poppy crops
The mystery of crop circles in and around Tasmania’s legal opium poppy fields may have been solved. It’s not aliens, but junkie wallabies hopping around in dazed circles.
