The Global Mail opened its coverage of Australian arts on Monday with a curious piece from Stephen Crittenden about theatre blogging. Online writers haven’t stopped talking about it since.
Blogging
Ghosts of media regulators past haunt Convergence Review
The free-to-air television networks are the big winners from the convergence review. And bloggers may be the big losers.
The foul taste of online food criticism
Who judges the judges? Thanks to the proliferation of food bloggers, everyone can be a restaurant reviewer. But there’s so much noise and so little intelligence and thought, argues Tom Harrow.
2011′s best of the blogs
Check out Time’s annual roundup of the best of the blogs, from kooky travel blog The Everywhereist to a list of blogs — hello birther Dr Orkly Taitz! — that the world could do without.
Political tweets eclipse blogs, but parties still don’t get it
Social media including blogs and, especially, Twitter, offer unprecedented opportunities for politicians, but take-up remains low because party machines still see it as a threat.
Why we have to hope that Bolt wins his case
It would be a strange law that said the minute you become influential, you are less free in what you say.
Blogger backlash over collated foodie mag
An attempt to link the online and offline food worlds in Melbourne has resulted in bloggers fury and the publishers of GRAM magazine rethinking their entire business strategy.
Quiggin: How a newspaper became a troll
The Australian has reacted to this whole Julia Posetti defamation saga like an angry blogger, with ridiculous slurs, contradictions and a touch of Godwin’s Law. Problem is, it’s our national newspaper, laments John Quiggin.
Pobjie’s year in review: perfect ’10 for ruction, discord and Hey Hey’s demise
I don’t think it would be hyperbolic to say that 2010 has been the most momentous and exciting year since the dawn of time, writes Ben Pobjie.
Online news: the Year of the Dwarf Penis
Internet journalism isn’t just sex, gore and photoshopped galleries of celebrities as fruit. Think of the Iran protests and the WikiLeaks Collateral Murder video, says Crikey editor Sophie Black, in a defence of online news.
Pseudonyms and anonymity: a previously unpublished case study
Yes, its more on Grog’s Gamut. Some people are suggesting that bloggers should have a RIGHT to anonymity and/or the use of pseudonyms. But WHEN and HOW bloggers should identify themselves? Margaret Simons discusses a previous example.
Heritage media gibbons throwing poo
The outing of Grog’s Gamut and the petty, vindictive thuggery and implied threats behind it, speak much more about the character of the paper and the journalist involved than it does about any vacuous nonsense over imagined rights of anonymity online, says Possum Comitatus.
Wanna buy a blog?
A whole new world of internet advertising is developing in the Forbes blogs stable, far more involved than the old sponsored post. Instead advertisers can pay to run an entire blog alongside the normal blogs run by Forbes journos.
Grog’s Gamut outing: in whose interest?
Grog’s Gamut is the pseudonymous political blogger who drew much attention during the recent election. Now The Australian has deemed his identity news and decided public servants aren’t entitled to hold political opinions. Wrong on both counts, says Tobias Ziegler.
Grog: Why I used a pseudonym
The public identity of Grog from Grog’s Gamut — a political blogger of much acclaim in the recent election — was unveiled by The Australian this morning. Grog argues that it isn’t in “the public interest” to reveal his name and occupation.
Best of the Aussie business blogs
They may be web 2.0 savvy, but when it comes to blogging small companies are streets ahead of larger organisations. Smart Company offers its picks for the business blogs worth clicking on.
Tuckey 2.0: Ironbar’s foray into the blogosphere
Wilson “Ironbar” Tuckey officially broke the internet yesterday when he announced during a press conference from his home in Western Australia that he was going to start a blog. So what will Ironbar blog about?
Writers can’t write for free forever
The rise of Australia’s literary journal blogs as intellectual spaces is a great thing. But with no money in blogging, can an effective long term model be found to sustain them? asks Jessica Au.
Murdoch and Jobs’ Holy War on bloggers
Steve Jobs is adamant to nip the blogger movement in the bud using iPad newspaper apps, and Rupert Murdoch is happy for him to do so. So far, 20,000 have downloaded Murdoch newspaper apps.
What next for the Aussie blogosphere?
With news that New Matilda is folding, the tiny Aussie political blogosphere has shrunk even further. Replicating the magazine model online just doesn’t work, says Mark Bahnisch.
How the US military is being destroyed by hip hop and blogging
The ‘stop-loss’ US military initiative — where Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans are kept in “involuntary servitude” — is being robustly argued on rap songs and blogs. Overland examines the trouble brewing within the ranks.
Why I quit my job as a national newspaper editor to be a blogger
Why would any self-respecting journo leave their job as an editor at one of the US’s largest national newspapers, the LA Times to work for media gossip site Gawker? To be part of the nation’s “cultural conversation”.
A girl always remembers her first time: a tribute to GeoCities
Yahoo has finally pulled the plug on GeoCities. Though most will say “good riddance” to the home of eye-searing fluro text, badly animated GIFs and never-ending Midi tunes, Ruth Brown looks back fondly on the site that popped her HTML cherry.
Political snippets: Bloggers beware — here comes the FTC
America’s Federal Trade Commission is cracking down on bloggers taking cash for comment, and how the global recession may have reduced carbon emissions.
