Written by Judy MacGregor- Equal opportunities Comissioner, NZ Read here: Pervasive power of man made news

Interesting out take: Governance structures of NZ media companies- here where owners and shareholders provide strategic direction to media ocmpanies. This impacts directly and indirectly on editorial control of public and privately owned media companies. Murdock (1977) governance linked to allocative control as opposed to operational control. AC operates on the higher general levelconcerned with structure and development of media enterprise as a whole.

• Scale and scope of media activities and overall allocation of resources, such as hiring and firing of editors, operates at this level. Directors of boards wield power and influence - compelling social justice and business cases for womens representation on the boards of directors.

Now to some man made news : Google apps- should you switch?

Quote from today from a very grand friend of mine ” I must admit that I do love Google.  It is great watching the world
changing.”

KATHMANDU, Feb 21 - The year 2006 was a blend of the ‘worst’ and ‘best’ experiences in the history of Nepali media. In the beginning of the year the royal government suspended fundamental rights and put curbs on press freedom, and media persons faced beating, detention and threat from security forces, said a report. Read more here

1. Calling New Zealand Home
2. Read here: Citizen media: The High School Years
3. The end of Print?
4. Listen to Generational Communications mp3 here
5. Where does talent really come from?

Right here.

Blogging Tips

How to make money as a writer on the web:

1. Choose a niche topic you are passionate about.
2. Write unique content with flair and authority.
3. Raise your profile by posting to other related blogs.
4. Don’t give up the day job in a hurry. Building a readership base (and a website advertising income stream) can take years.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/3962026a28.html

With 55 million blogs battling for reader attention, and new ones popping up on the web daily, the Wikia communities promise to give mass exposure to ideas otherwise doomed to online oblivion. Im one of 55 milion!! Maybe Wiki magazines are my ticket in.
http://entertainment.wikia.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

I will stick to these Blogging Rules till I formulate my own - ibm_blogging_policy_and_guidelines.pd

Old media battles to make sense out of new media

NZ Herald

“Arthur Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times, said at the World Economic Forum in Davos he wasn’t sure if the New York Times would be printed in five years”

I have 100% faith that this will NOT happen. There will never be anything like a freshly printed, not yet read, substance laden publication in your hand with a coffee in the other (long, long black) and a superfluous hour or three. The New Yorker, Time, The Listener, Metro, North and South, NW, We are on the decline now.. What about sand in the keyboard? No sound of pages, lovely smell of ink- Noooo!

Here we go, now I feel better - Fairfax Media Magazines demonstrate strong growth across major titles in latest readership results. Fairfax Magazines titles have demonstrated significant market strength with considerable increases in readership for key publications during the past twelve months, according to the latest Nielsen Readership Survey results.

Graph: US News Anna Nicole Smiths Death 3rd, just behind events in Iraq and ahead of the 2008 election campaign..

Source: PEJ News Coverage Index

Presidential politics and Iraq managed to attract their fair share of coverage last week. But an allegedly homicidal astronaut and a troubled pinup girl really commandeered the media’s attention. The coverage of the death of Anna Nicole Smith was cast as sociology but it had the intensity of voyeurism.

Most emailed on stuff.co.nz today -

I started a school newspaper when I was 7 called News & Views.. It seems that it still stands 16 years later that news doesnt appear to be necessarily what the general population take time to read (!), talk about, email, and form views on.

Even back then I found through market (playground) research surveys that people were more interested in reading about the inside scoop on the elusive Mrs Kennedy than who won the highly contested sand saucer competition at Pets Day.

Seattle Times Story

I do believe the social monitoring would see prices paid directly correlated to how many people where in the store… If noone is driving behind you did you throw the litter out the window? Although I guess the barista would always be present and casting glances of disdain at gorsepocketed individuals..

MediaNZ Conference
12/02/2007

http://www.beehive.govt.nz/ViewDocument.aspx?DocumentID=28348

“We are venturing into uncharted territory where a great deal is still not known about the shape of things to come…”