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Climategate: The Book, written by you

Crikey — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:54:56 +0000

The Guardian is taking crowd-sourcing to a new level: publishing the manuscript for its new book about the hacked climate change emails and asking readers to help write, edit and "peer review" the tome. Great idea or total gimmick?

MTV officially stops pretending to be about the music

Crikey — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:00:38 +0000

MTV has given its logo a makeover for the first time in about 30 years, officially dropping the "Music Television" tagline to reflect the fact that the channel now mostly plays cheap reality TV shows.

A quarter-billion dollar rort and the media plays dead. Wonder why?

Bernard Keane — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:23:36 +0000

The Government’s weekend handout to the free-to-air television networks -- $100-odd million this year and $150m next -– has sunk with barely a trace in the media.

Lamenting the old Age: pies, not rucola panini…

Michael Vaughan — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:23:14 +0000

Age journalist Raymond Gill has penned a review, of sorts, of the paper's new Spencer St home. Former Age employee Michael Vaughan responds.

Herald Sun between a Rockefeller and a hard place on online discussion

Stephen Downes — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:21:03 +0000

Herald Sun columnist Robyn Riley wrote of how "heartbreaking" it must be for the family of Herman Rockefeller "to so publicly have the details of his death aired, discussed and dissected." The concern didn’t seem particularly authentic in a paper that has continued to run hard on the story.

The internet’s Next Big Thing: a form guide

Crikey — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:59:09 +0000

What will be the next Twitter, YouTube or Skype? Michael Wolff talks to big-name net nerds like Clay Shirky, Jeff Jarvis, Chris Anderson and Jay Rosen, and makes a few predictions of his own.

Is the ABC kowtowing to China’s censorship?

Crikey — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:39:57 +0000

The ABC's decision not to air a doco about Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer has prompted the Oz to question whether the move was motivated by the broadcaster's new focus on "soft diplomacy" with other nations.

Google vs. Facebook: game on

Crikey — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:26:57 +0000

Google has announced it is entering the social media-sphere, adding Facebook/Twitter-esque real-time "status updates" to its Gmail email service. Facebook looks to be hitting right back, launching its own Gmail-esque webmail service.

The best of the Super Bowl commercials

Crikey — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:49:56 +0000

The ad breaks of America's Super Bowl are almost a show in and of themselves, with the country's biggest brands and companies shelling out millions to create the funniest, catchiest, most impressive ads. The NYT blogs the best of this year's batch.

Rebates to TV networks just an ugly bribe

Glenn Dyer — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:23:33 +0000

The three commercial TV networks, Seven, Nine and Ten, went weak at the knees in congratulating the Government for its decision on rebate for licence fees. Can anyone say "election year"?

Could the internet win a Nobel Peace Prize?

Crikey — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:14:41 +0000

The internet (yes, the series of tubes), has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Ridiculous? Maybe, but the campaign has some pretty big-name backers, including the editor of Wired and, er, Giorgio Armani.

Conroy tells movie industry, ISPs to kiss and make up

Stilgherrian — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:12:08 +0000

After last week’s Federal Court win for internet service provider iiNet, the movie industry was looking to the government to help them out. But the government has told it to sort out its own problems.

Fairfax lousy payers: that’s the word

Margaret Simons — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:12:07 +0000

Australian journos have been dobbing in publishers to Crikey's Content Makers blog over their freelance rates. The results are in -- and many aren't pretty.

What are Australian freelancers paid? The complete data

Margaret Simons — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:17:47 +0000

Margaret Simons put the call-out for freelance journos to spill on the rates they're receiving from Australia's big media organisations. The results are in, all compiled into a handy cut-out-and-keep chart.

20 years of Lateline

Crikey — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:05:51 +0000

The Oz looks back at two decades of Kerry, Tony, Leigh and our favourite late-night wonky pleasure, dubbed "the caviar of TV" by Maxine McKew.

How many news photographers are too many?

Crikey — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:28:59 +0000

News photographers naturally descend on disaster areas and conflict zones like moths to a flame. But do we really need hundreds of images of the same tragedy? Some of the world's top photojournalists weigh in.

Levi Johnston goes rogue (and naked) for Playgirl

Crikey — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:59:25 +0000

The much anticipated (by some) Levi Johnston in Playgirl shoot is here. He's naked, but not flashing everything -- just some Hasselhoff hair and lots of bronzer. Gawker plays around with some alternative cover headlines.

Jon Stewart vs. Bill O’Reilly: uncensored

Crikey — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:18:55 +0000

Fox News has put the full, unedited clip of Jon Stewart's appearance on the O'Reilly Factor. Gawker rounds up everything that was cut out of the version you got to see.

Roy Greenslade tears shreds off London’s new newspaper — via liveblog

Crikey — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:47:18 +0000

Roy Greenslade mercilessly (and hilariously) rips into new London freesheet The London Weekly, mocking the excessive typos, amateurish writing and tabloid content.

Facebook: the world’s newspaper

Crikey — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:59:05 +0000

Forget aggregators and e-readers, the real digital news revolution is taking place on Facebook, which is now the fourth largest source of traffic for media. Do we now only read what our friends tell/want us to read?

Insiders returns: now with 50% less science

Crikey — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:39:26 +0000

ABC's Insiders returns this Sunday, and it has booked the mainstream media’s denialist-in-chief, Andrew Bolt, for episode one, says Tobias Ziegler.

iiNet decision a slapdown for AFACT, movie industry

Stilgherrian — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:41:00 +0000

After yesterday’s Federal Court decision clearing iiNet of responsibility for copyright infringement by their customers, the Australian Federation Against Copyright theft is considering its next steps.

SMH, Tele and Oz all in need of an heir cut

Crikey Intern — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:34:52 +0000

With all the attention little Jackson Lloyd Packer received, you’d think Indigo, Jamie and Erica’s daughter and eldest child, didn’t exist, writes Crikey intern Tristan Price.

Rundle: Guardian grid ups the ante while Rupert gets the sheets

Guy Rundle — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:34:46 +0000

As News Ltd boasts unironically of its "new era of profitability" for its clunky websites, The Guardian has just upped the pace, with the launch of its new "zeitgeist" interface.

Jon Stewart battles Bill O’Reilly

Crikey — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:34:12 +0000

The much anticipated appearance of Jon Stewart on The O’Reilly Factor. Watch as the funny man of the “liberal” media crosses swords with Fox’s favourite conservative.