From stone throwing kids to online activists: the e-Palestine movementPalestinians have figured out one the most effective methods of mobilising the youth: bringing their activism online. They foster an international diaspora and avoid the traditional Hamas and Fatah tensions and talk in chat rooms. Can they mimic the success of Obama’s online campaign?
New media
What to think about Roger Corbett and the Fairfax Board?
Predictably, Roger Corbett is the new chairman of Fairfax. Will he encourage brave hiring and get more into new media? He’d better, writes Margaret Simons.
‘Howard-era politics with Obama-style campaigning’ at Sydney Uni
Industrial action has gone high tech, with the University of Sydney and the National Tertiary Education Union battling out wage conditions via snappy new media campaigns.
Kev’s troubled typing: highlights from the PM’s Live Chat
Our new-media loving Prime Minister Kevin Rudd showed himself to be more typing twit than technical top dog in a patchy attempt at a live web chat about climate change today.
A new New York Times?
What if The New York Times’ top 5-10% writers and editors — the most valuable assets that the newspaper controls — walked out of the building and started their own company? What would it look like?
Media scoops: who you gonna call?
Media veteran Peter Himler reflects on TMZ.com scooping Michael Jackson’s death, the NYT breaking the passing of Walter Cronkite and asks: who do you call when you have a exclusive news story in this new media age?
Six pieces of News Ltd we’d like to see behind a paywall
News Ltd CEO John Hartigan is absolutely right: the more News Ltd content that is moved beyond a paywall, the better. Here are some articles we’d like to see there.
Hartigan on old and new media
The irony of Hartigan talking about bloggers and citizen journalists getting the facts wrong, after a month when we have seen the media outlets publish a fraudulent email, is palpable. Pure Poison — and readers — weigh in on John Hartigan’s attack on new media.
New media enters the White House
A choreographed question between the Huffington Post and Barack Obama at a recent press conference raises questions about bloggers’ roles as journalists and the place of new media in the White House.
Video: Marieke Hardy on new media writing
Triple J’s Marieke Hardy covers literary speed dating, writing’s Mardi Gras, Stephen Fry and new media at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.
Media are stabbing in the dark to survive
Media managers are jumping on the bandwagon of every new technological trend that comes their way in an attempt to survive — but will that work without a clear plan of attack?
New media lessons from Election ‘07
Australian citizen journalism and blogging have passed a milestone, if not come of age, writes Margaret Simons.
Crikey essay: ABC Playback is a backwards step
ABC Playback seems more like the last gasp of old-style broadcast TV than a prelude to something new and wonderful, writes Stilgherrian.
Scott delivers Aunty’s medicine
ABC Managing Director Mark Scott is trying to do more and more with no more resources – while limbering up to ask for a bigger share of the public purse, writes Margaret Simons.
Wanted: vision for communications portfolio. Reward offered
When are we going to get a Minister for Communications who is actually worth the crumpet? Margaret Simons writes.
