By Mercurius on January 16, 2010
I claim no special authority in the geopolitics of this subject. I’d like to promote fair-minded proposals of the “now what?” variety. First, a disclosure/confession: Yes, it is ghoulish, and presumptious, and all those terrible things, to begin discussion of [...]
Posted in Disasters |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 16, 2010
An open thread, where at your weekend leisure, you can discuss anything you like.
Posted in Miscellaneous | Tagged Saturday Salon |
By Guest Poster on January 15, 2010
Cross-posted from Skepticlawyer. Today my daughter was playing with her pink superball while my son was asleep (it’s small, so she’s only allowed to get it out while he’s sleeping). I heard her mutter to her toys while brandishing the [...]
Posted in Life, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Andrew Peacock, Bob Hawke, childhood, childhood memories, Gough Whitlam, History, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Kevin Rudd, Mark Bahnisch, memories, Politics, skepticlawyer, Sociology |
By dk.au on January 15, 2010
7.0 – magnitude of the January 12 Earthquake Update: 14: the number of deaths from a magnitude 7.5 earthquake in Los Angeles where there a building codes, including those for earthquake resistance, and they’re actually enforced (via). 1593 – number [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on January 15, 2010
When the ABC’s Drum was launched, Margaret Simons cited a piece by Media Watch host Jonathan Holmes on internal discussions of ABC journos writing opinion pieces, which I referred to in this post: Simons then looks at the cult(ure) of [...]
Posted in Media, The Web | Tagged abc, analysis, Andrew Elder, Annabel Crabb, Chris Uhlmann, commentariat, Crikey, future of journalism, Jonathan Green, jonathan holmes, journalism, Leigh Sales, margaret simons, Mark Colvin, mark scott, Matthew Brissenden, media practice, media watch, News Limited, online opinion, public broadcasting, punditariat, social media, The Australian, the drum, Tony Eastley, twitter, web 2.0 |
By Robert Merkel on January 15, 2010
Tony Abbott’s speech on the environment contains some nice but anodyne sentiments, the odd pointed barb at some of the apparent systemic weaknesses of the Rudd government, one big idea – transferring powers to manage the Murray-Darling to the federal [...]
Posted in Climate change, Environment |
By Guest Poster on January 14, 2010
My mate Tim Watts, who’s been doing some great work online on violent racist incidents in Melbourne, has provided this guest post. Previous discussion of the spate of attacks on Indian students at LP can be found here. -MB “I’m [...]
Posted in Activism, Australiana, Crime, Culture, Education, Ethics, Immigration, International, Media, Melbourne, Politics, Race, Sociology, The Web | Tagged assaults, attacks, Australia, Australia India Business council, causation, complacency, correlation, Crime, criminology, Culture, denial, disavowal, facebook, google maps, hate crime, Indian students, mapping, Melbourne, Neville Broad, Peter Varghese, police, policing, Politics, racism, simon overland, Sociology, statistics, tim watts, Victoria police, violent incidents, web |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 14, 2010
Possum has a cracker of a post up on Andrew Bolt’s infamous climate change graphs. Go read, as they say. He also pings the blurring of the opinion/analysis distinction at the ABC, where Bolt seems to wear two hats – [...]
Posted in Climate change, Media, Politics, Science | Tagged abc, analysis, andrew bolt, Climate change, climate science, graphs, Insiders, jonathan holmes, journalism, Media, opinion, public broadcasting, statistics |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 14, 2010
2010 is going to be a year of elections. In Australia, we have three state elections – Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania, and almost certainly a federal poll*. In Britain, the Labour party’s future is on the line; the same [...]
Posted in Elections, Federal Elections, Foreign Elections, International, Politics, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Coalition, coup, Elections, Federal Election 2010, Geoff Hoon, GFC, global financial crisis, gordon brown, Guardian, Hawke government, ideology, keating government, Labour party, Liberal Party, liberals, Lord Mandelson, Media, New Labour, Patricia Hewitt, South Australian election 2010, Tasmanian eleciton 2010, the city, Tony Abbott, Tony Blair, treasury line, UK election 2010, Victorian election 2010 |
By crankynick on January 13, 2010
Margaret Simons has an interesting piece up at Crikey talking about some research on whether people will pay for online content, and the likely move of The Oz to a paywall system. It’s an interesting piece but she falls, like [...]
Posted in Media | Tagged Crikey, news, News Limited, newspapers, online journalism, online media |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 13, 2010
Jason Whittaker has an article in today’s Crikey, which I’ve reproduced below the fold.
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, Politics, The Web | Tagged Authoritarianism, Crikey, efa, electronic frontiers australia, internet censorship, internet filter, isps, Jason Whittaker, Kate Lundy, mandatory filtering, no clean feed, opt out, peter black, stephen conroy, web |
The ABC of Drumming up some online opinion analysis
By Mark Bahnisch on January 15, 2010
When the ABC’s Drum was launched, Margaret Simons cited a piece by Media Watch host Jonathan Holmes on internal discussions of ABC journos writing opinion pieces, which I referred to in this post: Simons then looks at the cult(ure) of [...]
Posted in Media, The Web | Tagged abc, analysis, Andrew Elder, Annabel Crabb, Chris Uhlmann, commentariat, Crikey, future of journalism, Jonathan Green, jonathan holmes, journalism, Leigh Sales, margaret simons, Mark Colvin, mark scott, Matthew Brissenden, media practice, media watch, News Limited, online opinion, public broadcasting, punditariat, social media, The Australian, the drum, Tony Eastley, twitter, web 2.0 | 27 Responses