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How do I carve out time for Twitter? … News Ltd won’t be the new Apple

Crikey — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000

If you're a busy person with family and commitments, then how are you able to maintain that big global online conversation, Twitter? Plus, YouTube sign up funnyordie.com and other media land news.

Saint Kevin’s halo has finally slipped

Mungo MacCallum — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000

If last week's polling switch is really a result of the boat people kerfuffle, Rudd won’t be able to bluster and twitter his way out of it. So what does he have to do to win the voters back?

Rundle: a win to Obama, but the Senate battle awaits

Guy Rundle — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000

President Obama has won a victory in the health care campaign, the first serious universal health care bill to get through a House of Congress ever. But, his real test will be in the upper house.

Sunday night movies: no product, no idea

Glenn Dyer — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000

Slotting a movie into Sunday nights at 8.30 pm is generally a mark of programming failure. No product, and no idea. At the moment the networks are programming much of Friday and Saturday nights in that fashion.

The Ladybird Books guide to newspaper economics

Crikey — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000

Crikey uncovers the new definitive text on the newspaper industry...

More memos to Rudd

Crikey — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000

Crikey readers float messages in bottles out to the good ship Rudd, revive the republic debate, and provide a reality check for the nation's young people.

Dow strong — even if US employment isn’t

Marcus Padley — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000

The Dow closed above 10,000 last week, despite weaker job numbers. Today the market is up 74, and the Aussie dollar is up to to 92.20c.

Tips and rumours: Cardinal Pell’s climate sceptic pals

Crikey — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000

Cardinal George Pell makes friends with climate sceptics, the SMH's new A-group, a conspiracy theory about the Bondi caveman, and is Christopher Pyne eying the leadership?

Bob Hawke says “cheese” with some smiling former assassins

Richard Farmer — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000

A happy snap of former PM Bob Hawke surrounded by the folks who ousted him from office shows time heals all wounds, the aesthetic costs of wind turbines, no outliers in the Crikey Election Indicator, and a thumbs up for the new Oz design.

Julian Morrow’s Andrew Olle Media Lecture

Crikey — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:14:08 +0000

The Chaser's Julian Morrow delivers this year's Andrew Olle Media Lecture, offering a surprisingly witty and insightful take on press freedom, censorship and media ownership.

Separated at birth? … Murdoch’s Moby Dick

Crikey — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000

It's celebrity lookalikes, with everyone's favourite toupee wearer, Bert Newton. Is he more Alfalfa from Little Rascals or Darth Vader unmasked? Plus, how are interns faring the the current media world?

The long, plodding March of Patriots

Guy Rundle — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000

Guy Rundle reviews Paul Kelly's new book, The March of Patriots: the literary equivalent of cleaning out the garage on a grey Saturday afternoon.

Getaway gives it to Nine

Glenn Dyer — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000

Nine clearly won last night, while 7% of the audience tuned in to digital TV. More power to them, as there was greater choice on the new channels than on the old ones.

Clash of the media titans at Media140

Crikey — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000

A certain slack-jawed wonderment ran around the room at yesterday's Media140 conference in Sydney, when a senior News Ltd journalist rose to spruik the vested corporate interests of her employer...

The fast train to nowhere

Crikey — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000

Crikey readers on why Airbus hasn't killed the fast train, the government's Telstra swashbuckling, border protection (or lackthereof) and Rosemary Stanton gets into a food fight.

‘Bludge’ day? Not bloody likely

Crikey — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000

The Monday before Melbourne Cup Day is now a normal day. Try telling the kids that, writes our long-suffering school teacher Trevor Diogenes.

Photo galleries of drunk people at the Melbourne Cup

Jonathan Green — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000

Apparently people get drunk on the public lawns at the Melbourne Cup. Who knew? There is no news in this, just a ritualised annual tabloid photo-gallery parade of shame, vulnerability and intrusion. But try telling that to the Hun.

Wall St up 204, Dow up 211

Crikey — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000

Better than expected economic numbers gave the market a boost last night, with Wall St up 204 and all S&P 500 major sectors closing up. The domestic market is up 61 today, while the Aussie dollar is up to 91.06c.

Tips and rumours: When’s Tassie election date?

Crikey — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000

Bookings have already been made for polling booths for the next Tassie election. Plus, some interesting family connections at Peter Costello's new plum job with BKK partners.

A neighbourly disinterest

Crikey — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000

Two of Australia's near neighbours are close to a state of war and what can you read about on the home web pages this morning of Australia's newspapers? Not a word at all about the frightening deterioration in relations between Thailand and Cambodia.

My boyfriend is the President

Crikey — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:37:14 +0000

No, we don’t get it either … yet we can’t look away:

Giant croc eats shark … Foxtel faux pas

Crikey — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:30:00 +0000

Just when you thought Croctober was over, NT News have done it again, this time confirming that when it comes to crocs vs. sharks, crocs win. Plus, other media world gossip.

All locked away in our digital ghettoes

Crikey — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:30:00 +0000

With the decline of the mainstream media, we’re also losing something social media cannot provide. What about the viewpoints that we don't want to hear, but should?

Keane on Telstra

Crikey — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000

Some Crikey readers don't agree with Bernard Keane that small investors aren't concerned about what's happening with Telstra. Plus, an update on visiting detention centres.

Rates to stay on hold

Marcus Padley — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000

The FOMC kept rates on hold as expected at 0-0.25%. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke had a cautious tone saying he would keep rates at these levels for an extended period of time.