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Re: Inquisitr D: a step on our long march to news site

jnau — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:19:55 -0000

Congrats dude, as someone who has been reading inquistr for some time now it's great to see the evolution and success! Hope you have many more to come!

Re: Can Radian6 be used to prevent suicides and murders?

jnau — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:08:05 -0000

Hi Nigel

Absolutely. There are multiple issues even over and above the issues you have raised, but it's not impossible. As with all these things there's a point when the issues of implementation outweigh the issues of not implementing.

It's worth putting the idea out there though because it might actually resonate with someone who is looking for a solution.

Re: citizen journalism is not journalism

jnau — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:20:04 -0000

Hi Paul, it's good to see people are passionate about this topic.

If I may paraphrase, the crux of your argument is that:

Premise 1: TV news lies, and they all tell the lie in ten or two different ways.
Premise 2: If it's on YouTube it must be true
Conclusion: Actually I'm unclear of your conclusion.

Although I believe both your premises are somewhat generalised, it heartens me to know that although our viewpoints differ there are still people who are passionate about news and current affairs. Thanks for taking the time to write your thoughts.

Re: Bad for journalism, terrible for PR

jnau — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:26:04 -0000

Ok it's not scientific by here's an experiment. Go to the front page of www.smh.com.au and www.news.com.au and count the negative vs positive stories. Or even more telling count the negative and positive stories with just the top half of the screen that is viewable without scrolling. Which stories prevail?

On you second point I partially agree with you. Media relations is only a fraction of the practice of PR. There are the boundary spanning and trusted advisor roles that we play. In this instance though I am referring to the media relations aspect of our role.

Where I differ though is that I don't believe we are better and I don't believe that the world needs more PR people, because what we do, our craft can be distorted and is not always used for good.

In Utopia, you would not need journalists because all companies would be good and so would all governments. Strategic PR is constantly working to build relationships. In Utopia world people don't have self interests.

We don't live in Utopia though and it still needs to balance. That's why we still have the institutions above.

Re: Invitation: Brits Abroad - calling all Sydney Poms!

jnau — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:59:45 -0000

This looks like it will be fun! Good luck guv'ner.

Re: Mother-Ruckus: Five reasons mums are the real rock stars of part time work

jnau — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:44:57 -0000

Indeed Carla, that explains the tornado of activity when you fly in!

Re: The power of social media… chk-chk BOOM!

jnau — Fri, 22 May 2009 03:28:16 -0000

chk chk BOOM!

She's definitely marketable. I wonder how long the fame will last in this instance.

Re: there will never be an end to print

jnau — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:59:09 -0000

Actually I haven't seen an Amazon Kindle, and there's my point. Amazon Kindle exists in the US. Nowhere else. When will it arrive here in Australia? I don't know. When will it arrive in Asia? Africa? Mauritius? It's a dangerous assumption to believe that because such technologies exist in one place, it exists everywhere. There is still a place for print.

The second part of that is there are some people like my friend Pascale, that given a choice will still take the newspaper/novel. They like paper, they like the feel of a novel. They like being able to dog ear books, scribble on the pages and take notes. They want to be able to read a book on their camping holiday an not have to worry about whether the book will go flat.

So I take your point that solutions exist, but can you say that the world over every person will want to consume their media the same way you do? So where there is demand, there will be supply.

Re: Always be careful when grabbing images from Google

jnau — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:32:56 -0000

Adds a whole new meaning to Kreme.

Re: A Proposal to Filter Christian Churches

jnau — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:10:05 -0000

Dunc, love the angle. I need to write a letter to censor the works of Shakespeare, the poems of Wilfred Owen and we definitely need to do something about the ideology of Ned Kelly and Waltzing Matilda. Ned was bank robber who killed people and old Walt stole sheep and committed suicide.

Re: citizen journalism is not: melbourne airport example

jnau — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:32:56 -0000

Actually I did, these are @JonoH's tweets:

Breaking!!! Plane on fire @ melboune airport about 21 hours ago from TweetDeck
Qantas 767 on fire @ Melbourne airport... details to come!!! about 21 hours ago from TweetDeck
etc...
Until this message when quizzed by @nickhodge a few hours later.
I had a mate scheduled on a Mel-Syd flight who had alerted me 2 the situation. i was not on scene, please just wait 4 QF/media to announce. about 19 hours ago from TweetDeck

Look, I'm glad that in the end the facts did get checked, but the bit that concerns me is this stuff spreading BEFORE the verification.

I will update the post shortly to reflect this. Thanks for stopping by with your comments.

Re: What’s Twitter’s Real Motive for the API Cuts?

jnau — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:00:51 -0000

Consider this though Dunc:

Other startups have built on Twitter and are building business models around Twitter's resources. Perhaps they want Qwitter and TweetScan and all these other tools to pay for the interface or requests above 20,000. It would make sense. Commercially I think it's a good place to start monetisation. Why should twitter bear the burden for all these other tools that basically build on Twitter's success?

Thanks for the angle, I never would have thought it.

Re: a good viral video: asics

jnau — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:44:16 -0000

exactly on the grandfather front. we have these onitsuka tiger stores here with all the vintage asics stuff and there's some really cool stuff in there. to me asics is now this old dude who had a cool idea over a bowl of rice, waaay more loyal now than i would be over a brand. awesome. awesome. awesome.

Re: citizen journalism is not journalism

jnau — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:40:40 -0000

the same thanks to you! i had an extremely productive writing day yesterday sitting in the sunshine and mulling over these things.

i'll give citizen marketers a read, more food for thought.

Re: citizen journalism is not journalism

jnau — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:03:16 -0000

so if i read you correctly you raise three points:

1. some twitter users (twits?) are more credible than others;
2. there have been examples of very good reporting in the case of #mumbai and
3. preference for personal storytelling vs a lengthier fact checked account.

on point one. i both agree and disagree. for people who understand the medium we look at the twitterer and make an evaluation, but the problem is very few of the mainstream are social media savvy. they have come from the heritage media model and many people still believe what they read in the newspaper all the time. there are many social media "mavens" and "experts" out there preaching the gospel that i'm afraid misinforms and presents a case that is somewhat simple:

twitter broke the news = twitter good
twitter = must be true

so the crux of the issue is that for you (author of the age of conversation), it makes perfect sense because by virtue of your experience you understand the medium and understand how to discern and determine credibility. whereas you read an article like "Mumbai attacks reported live on Twitter, Flickr" which appeared in the smh, and as an uninformed reader, you would believe that twitter is a great way to get news for everyone. asher's summary of the role that socmed played in that article is fantastic, but asher, is actually a very social media savvy journo, so again, the ability to distil the facts and discern credibility exists.

on point two, there were some brilliant accounts coming out on #mumbai, but what i found following it was that it was no different to a mate there calling me saying: "this is happening and then that is happening." it's a great way, as you say in point three to get a personal story telling account. so i believe it's exactly that, it's a personal account of what is happening, but we have never called that journalism in the past. perhaps it comes down to a debate over the definition of journalism?

on point three i do agree 100%. i also like the fact that you get multiple accounts of what is happening and it is much easier to get a holistic view of an event with multiple perspectives. as a personal preference though, i find waiting on the next 140 chars sometimes frustrating, and sometimes the finer nuances of the language is lost. i emphasise though that that is personal preference some of the time.

ultimately, i am a believer in social media and its potential, what raises the sceptic are the trendy phrases like "citizen journalism" that fuels hype and bubbles. moving into the future, microblogging will unquestionably be part of the news landscape and there will be new trust models and capabilities. until then people like you are not only going to have to get people excited by the medium and not fear it, but to fully understand the good, bad and ugly.

thanks for taking the time to comment as always gav!

Re: john lennon back from the dead to promote olpc

jnau — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:31:40 -0000

I guess what you're saying is to use the image of the celeb but not to manipulate their speech. That I think has been used throughout time and wouldn't be as weird! But since they have manipulated his speech it's not cool?

Re: john lennon back from the dead to promote olpc

jnau — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:30:33 -0000

I thought to myself who are the inspiring celebrities we would use today? Noone came to mind.

If we were to use the "elder-statesman" type though I would suggest:
Madeleine Albright
Kofi Annan
or Bill Clinton.

Maybe Brangelina?

Re: GE Coal Greenwash

jnau — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:27:52 -0000

I didn't really understand what the ad was trying to say. Having not seen the ad now in a week, the key message I take away from that is that COAL IS SEXY. Which is completely nonsensical and dumb. Maybe that was the message in the remit.

Re: finally, a funny ad from coca-cola amatil

jnau — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:45:06 -0000

Seesmic video reply from Disqus.

Re: Values-based judgements: Why it’s OK to be a gold digger.

jnau — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:42:15 -0000

It's very much in our nature. I too am very familiar with the small Vietnamese community issues. I think there are two sides to the whole community involvement. There are some very good upsides but there are also some annoyances.

Re: new year. new blogs. new blog template.

jnau — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 06:10:31 -0000

It was the only way I could think of without having to think of and register more domains! I really just wanted people to be able to choose the blogs they wanted to subscribe to and still relate it to my domain.

Re: It’s not a photo-a-day

jnau — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:40:13 -0000

I only just got around to setting up a flickr account yesterday. I was using Picasa primarily because the Picasa client is so damn good! I'll let you know the stream when I upload something.

Re: new year. new blogs. new blog template.

jnau — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:22:23 -0000

That's great! How funny is that?? I haven't had a video comment before. Gonna setup my webcam. Cheers mate!

Re: Think twice about using magazine style blog themes

jnau — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 06:25:54 -0000

Hi Steve, thanks for the tip. I was exploring magazine style themes and was hesitating. You've answered my question. :)

Re: Indonesian State wants to tag AIDS patients with RFID tags

jnau — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:09:08 -0000

...and so it continues. Chip away at freedom by using a fear as a justification. Who's next?