September, 2009
A necklace made of tiny chairs 
Tennis: like ballet but with balls
I suspect that most dance-lovers (and, I have a feeling, most particularly ballet-lovers) adore tennis, writes New York Times dance critic Roslyn Sulcas. Both require athleticism, power and fancy footwork.
Shock! A quarter of newspapers don’t use Twitter or Facebook!
“24% of newspapers still in the internet dark ages” exclaims Silicon Alley Insider in response to news that 24% of US newspapers don’t provide access to their information via social media. Quelle horreur!
PHOTO GALLERY: New York Fashion Week hits and misses
New York magazine braves the glacial stares of Anna Wintour to bring readers the best looks from this year’s pared-back Fashion Week. If you don’t have any time, don’t start looking — it’s addictive!
WTF sport moment: Shaun Burgoyne’s manager won Big Brother
So it’s the silly season for both the AFL and the NRL. And like most sports junkies I love this stuff. Hissyfits, claims on disloyalty, home sickness etc, says Leigh Josey. But here’s a ripper. It’s time to go … Shaun.
How to design a movie poster
Danish designer Joaquim Marquès Nielsen takes readers through the long and fascinating creative process of conceiving, designing and creating an eye-grabbing poster for a friend’s short film project.
Can you judge a book by my cover?
People were critical of his cover for Nick Cave’s novel, featuring as it did a lass with her legs open. Now an eBay seller has censored it. Crikey blogger and book cover designer WH Chong wonders what you think.
Telstra split: good or bad idea?
Online reaction to Telstra’s not-quite-forced “structural separation” is split. Telstra shareholders are angry. Everyone else is quietly jubilant — especially Telstra’s key competitors.
Crikey Clarifier: What on earth is structural separation?
Til now, Telstra has exploited its monopoly as the buyer and seller of wholesale services to gouge the public and its struggling rivals. So the government’s forcing it to “structurally separate”. But what does this mean?
Rudd rage consumes the Opposition
Howard haters took years to develop. Rudd rage has been quicker — and the Federal Opposition is obsessed with it as yesterday’s Question Time showed. But the rage won’t help them.
Telstra decision is just good policy
There’s an element of politics in Communications Minister Stephen Conroy’s decision to break Telstra up. But it’s also good policy that finally corrects the huge mistake Bob Hawke and Kim Beazley made.
Editor on a G-string: the Penberthy-Dye emails
A defamation action against the Daily Telegraph reveals a little of the inner world of its former editor.
Media briefs: Consumers the winners from Telstra split … Impacts of social media in Asia Pacific region …
Consumers are the winners in the Telstra split, rating plummet for Magda Szubanski’s Spearman Experiment, Obama’s off-the-record slag hits Twitter and more news from the media.
Helen Coonan: Labor rewrites history on female participation
The propensity of the Labor Party to rewrite history was on clear display yesterday with the triumphal chest beating of Labor women Ministers at the expense of the Liberal Party. How wrong they are! writes Helen Coonan.
Deveny: marriage is a total crock
I am against gay marriage. I’m against straight marriage. I’m against marriage full stop. Why are we hanging on to this relic of an anachronistic system (which still reeks of misogyny and bigotry)? asks Catherine Deveny today.
Crikey Says: Time for some order in the House?
A gentle yet timely reminder on House of Representatives Standing and Sessional Orders…
Indigenous smoking is finally out of the too-hard-basket
The federal government has put tackling high smoking rates amongst Indigenous people at the centre of its plans to “close the gap”, writes David Thomas.
Left and right? Just the beginning of the complexities of student politics
How could hordes of bright-eyed Melbourne Uni students, with their liberal arts educations and asymmetrical haircuts, willingly sign their representation away to conservatives? They didn’t, writes student politician Chris Summers.
Political snippets: Parliament goes pre-school
Coalition MPs have done themselves no favours with their behaviour in the House of Representatives this week — temper tantrums don’t win support or votes. Plus pre-mixed concrete sales cements economic predictions and remember those jailed Rio execs? Hu? Exactly.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: King Kyle out-ranks Rudd
Kyle Sandilands rated 50% more mentions than the PM on the people’s medium this week, further confirming commercial TV’s place as a politics-free zone.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: SBS management are offside
Why is SBS eroding staff conditions while bragging about the millions of ad dollars generated by the World Cup? asks a Crikey tipster. Plus middle-aged army reservists on the frontlines and why it’s not what you know, but who in the WA ALP.
Web expert tells Fairfax: newspapers have 10 years. Tops.
World Internet Project founder Professor Jeffrey Cole sees a limited future for newspapers in print. So it sure would have been interesting to be a fly on the wall at the Fairfax strategy meeting he spoke at on Monday.
