Comments on: Blogging discussion on Radio National

By: Nicholas Gruen

Nicholas Gruen — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:28:05 +0000

Yes, if you’re talking about NM’s comments, yes there were comments in that thread. They simply shared the author’s outrage, but didn’t take things any further.

By: James Farrell

James Farrell — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:55:05 +0000

Just got around to listening to this. You did a great job, Nick, in getting across the importance of interactivity in blogs, in correcting errors, bringing in fresh information, and so on. The Hew Griffiths example was well made. Anyone who read the comments on your post would have ended up with much more perspective than someone who just read it in the New Matilda. Are there comments threads in the on-line journal itself?

By: Nicholas Gruen

Nicholas Gruen — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:03:08 +0000

I was trying to be representative yes.

I also regret not mentioning a few other blogs – but that’s often the way with acknowledgements.

By: David

David — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 03:27:37 +0000

Nice interview Nick (but yes it also took me a while to find it on ABC’s website!).

By: cam

cam — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:18:46 +0000

Chris, I was surprised to hear that you rated Cattalaxy as one of your three favourite blogs Nick.

The big three are undoubtedly catallaxy, LP and troppo. They act as dark matter in the auian blogosphere drawing in writers, comments and discussion. There are other large ones of course; such as quiggin, dunlop and sauer-thompson, but there is definately a wider dynamic going on between the cata-lar-oppo sites.

By: Larvatus Prodeo

Larvatus Prodeo — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:25:27 +0000

Happy Blog birthday, Prof Q!…

Via Helen, props to John Quiggin for five years of blogging. We’ve been reading (and listening) recently to Geraldine Doogue welcoming in the “age of online diaries and weblogging”. I think that all that has to be said about the dumbn…

By: Chris Lloyd

Chris Lloyd — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:58:43 +0000

I was surprised to hear that you rated Cattalaxy as one of your three favourite blogs Nick. Were you just trying to be ‘balanced’?

By: david tiley

david tiley — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 11:17:56 +0000

Julie Shiel is an interesting choice. She is kind of a mate of mine, and I get lots of laughs out of her desecration of abandoned mattresses on the streets of St Kilda, but her take on blogging is deep in arts land. So using the two of you is good for range, but not to define the mainstream.

By: Mark Bahnisch

Mark Bahnisch — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 02:51:19 +0000

Listohan, sorry!

By: Mark Bahnisch

Mark Bahnisch — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 02:50:38 +0000

Thanks, linohan. Obviously I should have looked further than the link!

By: Niall

Niall — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 02:32:39 +0000

Personally, I find the ABC’s online content superior to any other media outlet and considerably easier to navigate than some. Then, I spend a lot of time on the ABC sites

By: listohan

listohan — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:04:15 +0000

Mark,

Stories hard to find?

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/saturdayextra/default.htm

By: wmmbb

wmmbb — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 18:03:45 +0000

I am not up with Google Reader, if I want an overview of the blogs I go to the feeds at Byran Palmer's Oz Politics.

By: Mark Bahnisch

Mark Bahnisch — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:32:46 +0000

The url for Julie Shiels’ blog is also wrong, and they’re not hyperlinks, meaning that you have to cut and paste them into your browser. Really user unfriendly!

This is a portal which leads to her blogs:

http://julieshiels.com.au/

By: Larvatus Prodeo

Larvatus Prodeo — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:24:10 +0000

Gruen on blogging…

Nice work from Nicholas Gruen on Radio National talking to Geraldine Doogue about blogging. Though Im not sure if Geraldine gets it – the era of online diaries or weblogging is upon us and assuming that 150 visits to a blog a day is a high …

By: Mark Bahnisch

Mark Bahnisch — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:21:06 +0000

Nice work, Nick.

Though I’m not sure if Geraldine gets it – “the era of online diaries or weblogging is upon us”… And RN could do a better job with their online content – it would be much easier to post smaller audio files labelled with the subject rather than have to fast forward without too much guidance as to where the story you’re interested can be found. In this instance, it’s in the second hour and the window that my browser opened didn’t even give me the facility to find a particular story by referring to how many minutes along it was. It would also be nice to have some links to the blogs you referred to to make consulting them easier for the listeners.

Incidentally, on the question of whether blogs will replace newspapers over breakfast, I usually don’t eat breakfast so I have my morning cup of coffee in front of the computer screen and I look at blogs via Google Reader before I look at any of the newspaper’s websites. The only dead tree papers I buy now are the Fin and the Wednesday Australian for the Higher Ed and/or the ALR, and solely because the content isn’t online. I think a lot of media research shows that this sort of news consumption isn’t at all unusual for Gen X and Gen Y folks.

By: Niall

Niall — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 07:54:58 +0000

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