The Australian newspaper ran an article today about Allure Media (publishers of the Lifehacker AU blog which I edit).
Lifehacker gets a brief mention as a “technology in action” blog. The blogging buzzword “monetise” get a run several times in the story – take me right back to the year Y2K it does.
Archive for August, 2007
Allure written up in the Oz
Posted in Australia, blogging, journalism, technology on August 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Lifehacker AU goes live
Posted in Australia, blogging, technology on August 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m pleased to announce that Lifehacker AU has gone live. We’ve been quietly starting to put it together over the past couple of weeks. Since I got the gig as Editor, I’ve been surprised to find out how many of my friends are regular readers of the original Lifehacker site in the US, so I’m keen to [...]
The real news
Posted in USA, environment, journalism, politics on August 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This sounds cool:
http://www.therealnews.com
An online, global TV news network which is funded by viewers, taking no money from government or advertisers. They have a $US10/month subscriber model.
I have only briefly skimmed through the site, and I’ll want to find out some more about the people involved, but they have some interesting supporters including Gore Vidal and [...]
US law to protect bloggers
Posted in USA, blogging, journalism, law, politics on August 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A report from ZDnet says the American Congress has passed a law to provide legal protections for bloggers:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-11153_22-6200188.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn
The new law (passed with amendments) is called the Free Flow of Information Act 2007: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.2102:
Interestingly, they have defined bloggers as professional rather than hobbyist bloggers – they must derive financial income from their blogging.
“In response [...]
