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Wednesday, March 15, 2006



What a liv an bamba yay -- when the two sevens clash -- it dread
What a liv an bamba yay -- when the two sevens clash -- it bitter, bitter, bitter
What a liv an bamba yay -- when the two sevens clash -- a man ago feel it
What a liv an bamba yay -- when the two sevens clash -- you better do right
-- Culture, Two Sevens Clash

Meet Antipodean long tail of infomaniacs Trevor Cook , Tim Dunlop , Perry Middlemiss , John Quiggin , Gianna ; Antony Loweinstein , Genevieve and Mark Bahnisch. They blog on widely divergent subjects, but in their determination to push the envelope and in their reliance on the whole wide world to help them do so, they’re on common ground. Cream of the Australasia

Will success spoil MySpace.com? Wassuuuup!? Sutra Lounge

The Blog, The Press, The Media: How to be a Corporate Blog Evangelist
Read both popular blogs, as well as blogs in your industry. Learn how to find them using a variety of tools, listen to the conversation.

Depending on the company DNA, creating and growing a business blogging program may be an easy or a difficult task.
Evangelists have a tough job in front of them as the program requires high and broad corporate approval. Articulating a vision to adopt a two-way, informal communication tool is a challenge when the medium associated with 'teens'.


Two-way, informal communication [Trevor Cook recommends Too much information; surf the noise and much more; Okay, I admit it. I have a crush on Jane. Chances are, those feelings are not shared by Joe Klein. Ragheads ; Why haven't e-books caught on? ]
• · I'm in no mood to pick up the pen. Show her where the pain is beautiful, swollen, hot ... On Valentine's day, I guest-blogged over at that great website MurderSheWrites.com, about my experience with an unpublished writer who'd just finished his first manuscript How Dare You Not Read My Manuscript?; The wonderful Scots writer A L Kennedy has some hilarious yet realistic answers to these questions on her website: via katharine weber ; Computer technicans are threatening chaos at fast-food outlets, supermarkets, banks and airports unless they get a pay rise Geek threat: we'll take you down
• · · Leo Morris writes ‘If newspapers treat blogs as they should, as a technological innovation instead of a threat, perhaps they will enable a leap, too. Blogs will evolve as well -- they have to.’ Two worlds ; The Big News: Shrinking Reportage ; Of all the unhappy trends I have witnessed – conservative swings on television networks, dwindling newspaper circulation, the jailing of reporters and "spin" – nothing is more troubling to me than the obsequious press Lap Dogs Of The Press
• · · · This is the West Indies, this is that realm which once, in its innocence of history, mistook the lantern of a caravel for a light at the end of a tunnel and paid for that dearly -- it was a light at the tunnel’s entrance. This sort of thing happens often, to archipelagoes as well as to individuals; in this sense, every man is an island.... Art And Capitalist Relations And Why Publishing On The Web Might Be Interesting ; You are Channel Seven. Your hot new title for 2006 is Commander in Chief How will Australian TV cope with the internet? TV is a medium of ideas
• · · · · Blogging doesn't get any easier, however many times or years (4 years in June 2006) you've done it. We know that Media Dragon isn't the Oprah of blogging. We post links that span a broad ironic gamut, from experimental to the more mainstream, and we're not quite a household name. But we'd like to think we've achieved a measure of success precisely because we've pursued our vision. I don't know whether my mission is ironic or profetic. Or is it just pathetic? Alas, stones having been thrown, when some bloggers found out the best kept secret on the web Top 100 political blogs (#441 worldwide) ; One Asteron flack recently noted that, “Media Dragon is no joke. By some measures - such as the site Blogstreet - the antipodean dragon is the most influential blog site among the 13 million out there.” However, Cold River and its ranking on Amazon is flooded with irony. So I plan to use it as much as possible before it's outlawed Amazon from Hell v Cold River ; International Herald Tribune, France In the Internet era, the old media, like newspapers and television, are sometimes seen as dinosaurs, about to be rendered extinct by aggressive predators Old and new media meet but can't make connections
• · · · · · Upstartle runs Writely.com, which helps people access and edit documents from any computer on the internet Google edges closer to taking on Microsoft ; Whether economic, political, or religious in nature, our world is structured by ideas. And these ideas move so quickly through our media today that they are often accepted before they have been examined for truth. Modern media has the emotional power to make ideas feel true even when they are not. A single moment caught on film can render an entire story somehow “truthful” to an undiscerning audience. Investing in the Industry of Influence