http://filteredmedia.com.au Filtered Media Wed, 27 May 2009 10:25:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Way back in 2007 I had this idea for a business podcast. A technology podcast that brought together the best minds in the technology business to uncover a few pearls of wisdom for CIOs and technology leaders. I called it "The Scoop." Former publisher of The Australian Financial Review's MIS Magazine, ... http://filteredmedia.com.au/the-scoop-wins-a-lizzie/ I read someone on Twitter describe this week's ad:tech Sydney conference as a "love-in for marketers and ad agencies." (Read ad:tech twitterings here.) It's an interesting description that betrays an obvious slant towards the "other camp" which I heard one ad agency exec describe with a hint of derision as ... http://filteredmedia.com.au/adtech-sydneys-marketing-love-in/ A few people have asked me what I'm doing these days so I thought it's about time I wrote an update! Many of you already know I've been a technology journalist for more than a decade, and I've continued to work as a freelance contributor for The Australian Financial Review, producing ... http://filteredmedia.com.au/life-as-a-digital-media-speaker-workshop-host/ I live for moments of clarity, when all those passing thoughts and observations suddenly collide and create something new. And this time it was during a chance encounter on ustream.tv, the free video channel community. One of my twitter buddies had linked to a test broadcast by ABC personality James ... http://filteredmedia.com.au/life-mashed-up/ Amid all the economic commentary, there's a quiet murmur among digital media and social networking people. Will the bad times hit the marketing and tech industry's brightest light and snuff it out? What's clear to me is that the return to economic fundamentals will rub off on everything else. In tech, ... http://filteredmedia.com.au/social-media-simplicity/ As I wrote previously, I've spent time exploring the Twitterverse over recent weeks. Micro-blogging is an art form, I've decided, but more on that idea another time. Today's uh-huh moment comes from Twittercounter, a service that give you statistics on anyone's twitter subscribers. Yours truly still hasn't hit the big-time because ... http://filteredmedia.com.au/twitter-nomics/ Ok, let's be honest. Would you rather read a good story or a bad story? Do you like happy endings (non-Hollywood style), or the dramatic melancholy of an unresolved dissonance? If you think about the new media meta-narrative, it strikes me that we’ve become fixated on the drama that’s affecting incumbent ... http://filteredmedia.com.au/the-good-media-story/ If you're one of my select, loyal readers you might have noticed that I'm tending not to write as frequently on this blog as times past. My interest in the convergence of media, technology and marketing hasn't changed. If anything, it's deepened. What has changed is that my attention is increasingly ... http://filteredmedia.com.au/attention-divided-twittered/ The digital media revolution has arguably hit the entertainment industry harder than those of us in the journalism business. But the technologies and content delivery strategies in question are common to both sectors. And with many non-media companies pursuing various forms of online content delivery, there's now a lot of ... http://filteredmedia.com.au/video-interview-with-sony-pictures-jack-ford/ On Monday I spoke at Jed White & iTechne's Pubcamp conference in Melbourne on the subject of social capital. I spoke for 10 minutes about what I called "social capital transfer" - the notion that individuals build social capital inside web communities, which in turn builds or depletes the social ... http://filteredmedia.com.au/pubcamp-the-social-capital-revolution/