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By Mark Bahnisch on November 6, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/3004965364_03e56ac41f.jpg" Image of spontaneous street celebrations in Harlem courtesy of matt semel at flickr – reproduced under a Creative Commons licence. No doubt one of the big stories about the US election will be the influence of the blogosphere [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on September 15, 2008
I wasn’t the only person to notice on Friday night that Possum, The Poll Bludger and Andrew Bartlett (among others) popped up on a new blog platform at Crikey. One take on this move from Duncan Reilly – writing at [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on September 14, 2008
As noted here and here, I attended the Walkley Foundation’s Future of Journalism event in Brisbane yesterday. Courtesy of the lovely folks at the ABC, the sessions were all recorded and will be viewable online, so that absolves me from [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on September 11, 2008
As Kim mentioned the other day, the Future of Journalism roadshow is coming to Brisbane on Saturday, and I’m speaking on a panel at 2pm called “Bloggers: amateur netizens or professionals of the future?”… Full details of the program are [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on September 10, 2008
Although aspects of his critique are tentatively sketched by his own admission, Jay Rosen has hit more nails than he’s missed with his analysis of the significance of the Sarah Palin veep selection by the McCain campaign. Rosen’s article is [...]
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By Kim on August 21, 2008
There was an interesting discussion on this post on the whole “what is different about blogs and MSM “blogs” theme” with George Megalogenis recently. I generally agree with those who argued that whatever takes place on the bulletin boards of [...]
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The future of journalism – or its vanishing present
By Mark Bahnisch on September 23, 2008
As a supplement to my post on the Walkley Foundation Future of Journalism event I recently spoke at in Brisbane, here’s a link to the thoughts of my colleague and co-panelist Axel Bruns.
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