http://www.bronwenclune.com There is life after control media Mon, 06 Jun 2011 10:56:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I’m sitting on the train tonight, trying to access Twitter. It’s been the case for a while now, that on the journey home I habitually flip through the stream of disjointed conversations, briefly reading and passing over the snippets of a day that belong to those that I follow (and ... http://www.bronwenclune.com/2011/06/06/i-just-got-a-cheque-made-out-to-irl/ MY RESPONSE TO BOB ELLIS: Oh I get it now, it seems that because popular culture portrays women as being sexually exploited that means that it’s acceptable. For the latter they deserve to be publically vilified, peeked at in the shower, sexually harassed and abused for speaking out on the matter. ... http://www.bronwenclune.com/2011/04/13/let-me-be-the-first-wowser/ I came across this piece today, written in the New Yorker after the devastation in Haiti, last year. It caught my eye, for a number of reasons. Firstly, it was looking at the challenge for journalists in conveying the scale of suffering in disasters such as Haiti. Where does a ... http://www.bronwenclune.com/2011/02/21/tweeting-the-mundane-in-the-madness-the-power-of-twitter-in-times-of-crisis/ I did something the other day I haven’t done in a long time. I turned on the TV. Some of you may still be familiar with this ritual, but I can honestly say in the last three years, I can count on one hand how many times I’ve even bothered to ... http://www.bronwenclune.com/2010/05/17/what-twitter-is-doing-for-tv-and-some-free-advice-for-media-executives/ 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/