http://www.bronwenclune.com my personal blog Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:10:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'll be speaking at The Future of Journalism Summit in Brisbane next week on Saturday, 13 September. I decided I'd give the MEAA a call after I looked through the panelists and found most were from control media companies, who quite frankly, are no longer the authority on all things ... http://www.bronwenclune.com/2008/09/04/meaa-culpa/ Thought it was worth pointing out a great piece in Crikey today by Dr John Cokley from The University of Queensland  about the MEAA's role in the Fairfax sackings. I've been having similar thoughts - I've yet to see an MEAA event advertised that seems to have any grasp of the ... http://www.bronwenclune.com/2008/09/02/meaa-failing-its-industry/ If you are one of the journalists standing in a picket line outside The Age and SMH, I have to ask - do you realise how pathetic you look? If there was a journalists equivalent to the forlorn lovers "He's not into you" I'd be suggesting you read it. It's time ... http://www.bronwenclune.com/2008/09/01/a-letter-to-love-striken-fairfax-journalists/ Last Friday I was invited to take part in a "creative salon" for the Perth International Arts Festival staff and I was so inspired that I thought the idea was worth spreading. The idea behind it is very simple - get a few people who are innovators in their field and ... http://www.bronwenclune.com/2008/08/20/creative-salon-and-idea-worth-sharing/ I wrote a post up on the Norgdom blog which may be of interest to others as well about what makes a story "norgworthy". It raises some questions about our role as individuals in new media  and what contributions we make as citizen journalists to the "news". You can read it here, ... http://www.bronwenclune.com/2008/08/18/what-makes-a-story-norgworthy/ Deborah Leavitt, who is the ABC Local Radio and Online Manager for WA, gave me a ring last week asking me if I knew anyone who may be interested in applying for two online positions they have in Albany and Broome. They have had trouble recruiting through traditional ads, so ... http://www.bronwenclune.com/2008/08/18/41/ Flickr and Getty Images have announced a deal where Getty Images will peruse Flickr images looking for anything that can be used in magazines, newspapers and other publications. If they find any suitable images Getty will contact photographers directly and share any revenue with them. As far as I have ... http://www.bronwenclune.com/2008/07/10/what-will-the-flickrgetty-image-deal-mean-for-creative-commons/ Some months I feel like a sad excuse of a blogger and this is one of those months. My excuse - time, travel and a lot on my plate. But it doesn't help shake that feeling of regret that I don't make a bigger effort. So before the timeframe to ... http://www.bronwenclune.com/2008/07/07/we-the-free-media-my-belated-thoughts-on-pubcamp/ Catherine Eibner invited me to be a guest on the inaugral Geek Girl Blog Podcast last week. The Podcast will be focusing on women in IT, across a broad spectrum of areas. We chatted about running a Web 2.0 start-up. I had great fun recording it and it was fantastic ... http://www.bronwenclune.com/2008/07/02/geek-girl-blog-podcast/ YouTube has long been the soil bed of many budding citizen journalism initiatives and now its taken steps to recognise and encourage the efforts of those users with the launch of a Citizen News channel. They have employed a news manager to locate and bring together citizen journalism efforts around ... http://www.bronwenclune.com/2008/05/21/youtube-recognises-citizen-journalism/