Along with Jo Jacobs and Nicholas Gruen, I’ll be on Geraldine Doogue’s programme on Radio National tomorrow morning discussing blogging. Nick has a post up on Troppo which I’d urge people to read - he’d like some input on the question of how blogs can allow folks to access insider, professional or on the spot information and analyses.
Update: More from JJ on blog radio.
Note: We’re on in the 8.30am hour of the programme.
Here is the link to download the podcast.
will be tuned in
Me too!
me too. To hear Mark’s voice. Voices soar.
Alarm set for 7.30. E.S.T.
Good luck and ‘break a leg’, Mark.
I just hope Doogie has time to fit it all in, what with people, likely, jumping off high buildings in Wall St, for instance.
It’s on in the 8 30 hour, joe2, so enjoy the extra hour’s sleep!
Good stuff. I’ll have the catch the podcast Mark. Any idea on how long after airing the mp3s go up?
Blessings, Mark.
Not sure, Shaun, sorry.
joe2, I don’t know if I’d have done it if it’d been 7 30 am. I’m not a morning person at all!
y’all be great!!
Well that was all right, too bad about time constraints, important in bringing blogging to another audience though. Nice work and you didn’t scare the nice cardigan wearing Radio National audience which is always a good thing.
Thanks, Phil. That’s always the problem with doing radio interviews - very tight time constraints. You can see why pollies speak in soundbites!
Just a note, they misspelled Larvatus Prodeo.
Which is OK. I should make a mint setting up typo domains, syndicating the LP RSS feeds, and selling adsense space.
“Nice work and you didn’t scare the nice cardigan wearing Radio National audience which is always a good thing”
Fair go Phil, I don’t have me egg stained cardy on at that time on a Saturdy mornin. Rather, the nifty monogrammed pj ensemble. Well done Mark. The march goes on for blogging recognition despite the older media scaredy pants.
Yes, it came up well.
The podcast is available here.
Funny, I did a comment here this morning and it vanished into a black hole!
Thanks, joe2 and Brian.
Mark:
Heard it. Excellent.
Heard it by accident. Good to put a voice to an author, Mark.
Pity it was so brief. Having found Lavartus and Club Troppo belatedly by googlewander, it was pleasant to hear you both.
But Geraldine didn’t ask you to translate ‘lavartus prodeo’.
I’ve lost my Latin dictionary…
amo
amas
amat
(surely not something about prodding a lavatory?…)
Ambigulous
Just listened to the podcast.
I’m thinking that an artificial boundary seems to exist between MSM and blogs. While MSM commentators (Doogue included) still step around blogs and bloggers as if they were media interlopers without journalistic credibility and objectivity, bloggers themselves are not helping by accentuating the differences between themselves and their paid counterparts.
Sure, bloggers don’t regularly break stories but then again neither do most paid journalists. A quick look at a metropolitan newspaper or TV news shows that most stories are either imported from other agencies, or developed upon already existing themes. Journalists and bloggers alike use these techniques. What makes the article worth reading is the quality of the writing and the original research behind it, regardless of the media.
What blogging has added to the traditional form of expression is freedom from a sometimes stultifying objectivity and the ability to add user comment to the story. While the Australian may whinge about bloggers, most of their on-line op-ed journalists are moving towards this model anyway. The time is coming soon where the only difference between journalists and bloggers will be the “brand” under which they write.
Maybe then the arguments can move on to the more interesting questions of the message not the media.
The time is coming soon where the only difference between journalists and bloggers will be the “brand� under which they write.
Blogging … is… not… journalism.
Political blogging is very close to oped, but a lot of blogging is creative writing, nothing to do with journalism at all.
Sorry, did not close italics tag: First sentence belongs to Derek.
Coming up on Tony Delroy’s Nightlife.
It will be on between 10-11pm EST (8-9pm WST) & 30 minutes earliear in South australia, plus I think there will be some talkback as well.