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Media 2.0 – what’s off the table
In ‘saving’ journalism, there’s a tendency to bet the house. It’s time to start thinking about just what we’re trading away. Much has been written about what needs to change to secure journalism business models in the future. But what of the things that shouldn’t? What about a list of non-negotiables, the deal-breakers, the aspects of reporting that should be OFF the table in dealing in a new way of reporting? Let’s start a list…
For true Grace, mags still rule
An exhausting number of words have been written on the future of journalism in a digital age, but little has been made of what sort of future art and design has in the seemingly inevitable online convergence. The wonderful new documentary The September Issue brings into sharp focus the real art of magazine production in danger of being lost.
Porno at risk from Rev Lovejoy!
There’s been a great deal said about the Federal Government’s half-fisted, nonsensical attempt to censor the world wide web. Certainly with more authority than I could begin to say. What’s been starkly missing from the debate on a smut-free internet are proponents for smut. The deviants who Google-up all sorts of nasty sexual material for their own titillation. The sordid night owls who log-on to get-off. You know, from time to time, all of us.
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