http://www.bronwenclune.com There is life after control media Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:12:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here are my notes from the Media 140 talk, the video should be available soon. I will post it, when it is. It's great to see so many journalists here who are on Twitter and I think if anything it's provided a great forum for some robust debate about issues ... http://www.bronwenclune.com/2009/11/10/journalists-are-the-audience-formerly-known-as-the-media/ People have been telling me spam appears under my blog headings in their RSS. Thanks for the heads up. We've tried a few things and it keeps happening, so I'm doing a clean reinstall tomorrow. http://www.bronwenclune.com/2009/09/08/for-my-rss-readers-i-dont-have-a-sideline-pharmaceutical-business-aware-of-the-spam-on-it/ I was thinking last night, with regard to my previous post, that it would be great to have a forum to discuss the future of journalism - Australian journalism in particular. I have set up a Google group that is free for people in the industry, or those with an ... http://www.bronwenclune.com/2009/09/08/introducing-the-unofficial-official-australian-journalism-forum/ Twitter is about realtime conversation. Yes! It's a *buzzword*, but it's also pretty true. Just a few hours ago I was having a very interesting discussion on Twitter about whether paywall could work for news. Without Twitter the conversation could not have taken place, we had @julie_posetti in Canberra, ... http://www.bronwenclune.com/2009/09/07/why-twitter-is-a-fked-place-for-conversations/ Citizen journalism was around long before the iPhone, but I thought I'd take a look at apps on the iPhone which can be used for citizen journalism. I use all the apps I've mentioned, and I may have missed some obvious ones (let me know) or you could think of ... http://www.bronwenclune.com/2009/09/06/top-iphone-apps-for-citizen-journalism/ I've been meaning to write this since the announcement a few weeks ago, but I'm happy to have been elected on to Australia's Foundation for the Interest of Public Journalism. The initial plan is to model the Foundation along the lines Spot.us, set up in the US with a grant ... http://www.bronwenclune.com/2009/09/01/a-new-experiment-for-australian-media/ A few weeks ago Rupert Murdoch announced News Corp new sites would begin charging for content in the near future. “Quality journalism is not cheap,” Mr Murdoch said. “An industry that gives away its content is simply cannibalising its ability to produce good reporting.” The Punch (owned by News Corp) looked at ... http://www.bronwenclune.com/2009/09/01/bad-news-for-newspapers-great-news-for-journalism/ There's a good reason we don't have an easy view of our own bums - most of us would not be happy with what we saw, no matter how hot someone else may find it. Besides the odd look over my shoulder in the mirror, I'm quite happy not to be ... http://www.bronwenclune.com/2009/08/25/bum-decision-butt-cameras-in-my-changeroom/ http://www.bronwenclune.com/2009/08/24/i-liked-this/ Skank is such a great word. There's just something about those underused-slang-insults that give them that extra punch. The power of anonymity on the other hand is not always such a great thing, especially when its used by skanks in the name of free speech. Liskula Cohen, a model from NY would ... http://www.bronwenclune.com/2009/08/20/skanks-arent-welcome/