Comments on: Blogwars 2.0

By: jr

jr — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:52:15 +0000

The only clear picture I got was spin, spin and more spin. I thought the guy was commendable as he did not glance @ any notes whilst delivering that speech. Turns out there was a gigantic tele-prompter scrolling in the background.

By: Dave from Albury

Dave from Albury — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:43:19 +0000

I wonder what the quality of information reaching Hartigan is like? In big organisations it’s often like Chinese whispers attempting to get a message through layers of management, so it wouldn’t surprise me if Hartigan truly believed that News’ online strategy actually conformed with his views.

As for ‘who pays for content’, Australia’s small population does make that a more difficult challenge as niche publications by their very nature have a limited audience to either sell or use as subscribers. Crikey has, however, proved that it can be done, although it’s worth remembering that it almost sent Steven Mayne to the wall building the business.

Daily Kos is an interesting model as their subscriptions are now paying for fellowships for bloggers, a lot of whom are doing on the ground reporting.

The reality is that disruptive technologies change things in ways that we can’t even imagine as they emerge.

By: Bron

Bron — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:22:14 +0000

Hartigan’s got so much egg on his face with that speech, the mind boggles that his minions are rushing to defend him, like over on Punch and the editorial of the Oz.

I mean, seriously! You can’t defend his speech because it’s got massive holes in it!