http://filteredmedia.com.au Media, Internet and marketing grit finely filtered by Mark Jones Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:49:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/2008/07/22/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/2008/07/07/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/2008/06/26/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/2008/06/25/pubcamp-the-social-capital-revolution/ Before Heather finished up at Lenovo, she made a short speech at the annual Make-A-Wish Ball in Sydney. It gives you an idea of her passion for corporate social responsibility, and her ability to get 2,000 people eating dinner to actually pay attention! (Excuse the dodgy camera work - I ... http://filteredmedia.com.au/2008/06/20/heathers-makeawish-speech-stops-the-chatter/ We've got some exciting news to announce today. Heather Jones, an awesomely talented communications exec who just happens to be my wife, has started her own corporate communications and social investments consultancy - Filtered Communications. As Media Connect wrote today (subscribers-only, full copy below), the opportunity came about as a result of ... http://filteredmedia.com.au/2008/06/16/introducing-filtered-communications/ When US tech entrepreneur Jason Calacanis flew into Sydney for CeBIT this month, I joined the queue of Aussie journalists who wanted to meet the man who sold a blogging company to AOL for US$25 million (yes, we'd ALL like to do that...). Here's the result of our chat - part ... http://filteredmedia.com.au/2008/05/30/jason-calacanis-interview-on-afr-tv/ Facebook CEO Marc Zuckerberg has stressed his desire to keep the company an independent operation. "You can tell, from our history and what we've done, that we really wanted to keep the company independent, by focusing on building and focusing on the long-term," Zuckerberg told Reuters while in Japan to launch ... http://filteredmedia.com.au/2008/05/23/marc-zuckerbergs-microsoft-dance/ Hey everyone, have you heard of weblin? I came across the service over at mashable and I've been playing around with it over the weekend. No idea what I'm talking about? Think Second Life avatars bust out of the portal and start visiting the real web. Technically speaking, you download a ... http://filteredmedia.com.au/2008/05/18/is-anyone-in-australia-using-weblin/ Media and tech industry veteran Mark Hollands is the new PANPA chief executive. SMH story here. For those unfamiliar with PANPA, it's the Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers’ Association - think of any newspaper in the country and there's a very good chance it's a PANPA member. Mark is of course well known ... http://filteredmedia.com.au/2008/05/14/mark-hollands-in-panpa-hot-seat/