http://www.bronwenclune.com There is life after control media Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:38:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I recently gave a presentation at Jeff Pulver's 140 Character Conference in New York. It was on Twitter, the media and chaos theory. Here's the video (not only is it widescreen, but I had to scrunch the video to fit my blog margins resulting in fat face!) Ah vanity. Hopefully, ... http://www.bronwenclune.com/2009/06/25/twitter-the-media-and-chaos-theory/ There have been a couple of interesting reports out the last few days pertaining to the state of the news media that I thought were worth pointing out: The State of the News Media 2009 by the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism delivers a fairly hard hitting view on the ... http://www.bronwenclune.com/2009/05/28/reports-are-in-news-organisations-are-in-for-a-bumpy-ride-omg/ I just had a play with Tinychat.com and thought it was worth doing a quick write-up on as I know a few people are interested in video-conferencing and it has just recently added that capability. I've seen Tokbox used most often these days, Cameron Reilly has been using it for ... http://www.bronwenclune.com/2009/05/28/tinychat-a-great-video-conferencing-alternative/ Last week I attended the Future Summit as a member of the Twitter crew, the 'unofficial' official back channel of the two-day conference. Our mission was simply to attend the event and twitter about what was said and our thoughts on the summit. It's something I've seen referred to recently ... http://www.bronwenclune.com/2009/05/27/future-summit-lessons-in-event-casting/ Apparently there IS no faking it on social media if today's events surrounding the revelation that senior Telstra employer Leslie Nassar was the person behind the Fake Stephen Conroy account on Twitter. A few people were beginning to suspect Nassar was the man behind the account and I'm guessing he outed ... http://www.bronwenclune.com/2009/03/17/when-fake-gets-too-real/ I doubt many working in the media industry ever thought they would see a major city without a daily paper in their lifetime, but that is the scenario Seattle is facing in 2009. Across the US, the outlook for many newspapers is grim, highlighted by this interactive graph in The New ... http://www.bronwenclune.com/2009/03/11/the-emporers-new-media/ My friend Jo White (@Mediamum) recently asked for my thoughts on why citizen journalism matters as she's teaching a class on the subject. So here are some of my views for your perusal and comments: The internet is the natural environment for news to take place. Traditional Western news organisations exist ... http://www.bronwenclune.com/2008/11/13/the-internet-the-natural-way-for-news-to-happen/ Well it's less than two weeks to go until Edge of the Web and it's great that we have two of the most in-demand speakers in Australia when it comes to the social web (for lack of a better word) coming over to talk at the conference. Laurel Papworth and ... http://www.bronwenclune.com/2008/10/27/getting-down-and-dirty-with-enterprise-20/ Film-maker Jesse Dylan has put together a video for Creative Commons to explain why we need to save the world from failed sharing. It's a great introduction to the idea of creative commons and an example of why we should support it - the video uses a lot of ... http://www.bronwenclune.com/2008/10/23/a-shared-culture-creative-commons/ I think it is a very accurate description! http://www.bronwenclune.com/2008/10/23/control-media-spotted-in-the-wild/