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The news cameraman and their stills photographer counterpart form a very small and exclusive club. Being at what is often the front line of a war without actually taking part is not an easy thing. It creates a bond between these newsmen who are comrades while waiting for something to happen and competitors when the action starts.

Recently a Channel 9 Melbourne cameraman insulted the father of a man charged with several crimes, including rioting, after being verbally abused by the father outside a court. It’s happened before. Many times. I’ve witnessed it. When you see footage showing angry mourners or defendants or their families attacking news crews typically you don’t see or hear anything from the cameramen or photographers. There’s two reasons for this:

1. 99 times out of a hundred nothing is said by the newsmen,
2. That one time something is said the ‘code’ is such that no other news putlet would report the incident.

But with this story the ABC in Victoria have removed themselves from the club by breaking the code. The SMH and all Fairfax papers are also out now. In fact, not only out, but ripe for retribution from the Nine Network.

But here’s the interesting thing about this story; if the son is found guilty, the cameraman will not have been insulting the father but stating fact.

Pay particular attention to points 6 and 9 in the attached article below; Facebook and LinkedIn are excellent tools but not substitutes for real-time, off-line, face-2-face, over-the-back-fence (as my latest client calls it) conversations.

Social media marketing works when like minded people (friends/colleagues you like) are introduced to a new idea/product/service by someone in the group. If you add a hundred or worse a thousand randoms to your online networking groups you will be flooded with irrelevant and therefore annoying messages. Networking FAIL!

Facebook is for friends and family. LinkedIn is for colleagues.

Networking for shy people – The Venture – MySmallBusiness – Sydney Morning Herald Blogs.

There’s an old saying; a man who can’t count his friends on one hand is a very lucky man.

A close friend of mine recently went through an enormous personal crisis; life changing, potentially soul destroying. Her 479 Facebook friends were no where to be seen. Her support group was her family, one or two other friends and me. Interestingly, we’re so close we’re not friends on Facebook.

via Networking for those who hate networking.

http://mashable.com/2010/04/08/iphone-4-0-os-multitasking/

Excellent overview of today’s announcment by Apple Inc re iPhone OS 4.0.

According to Asher Moses of the Fairfax tech stable in his review of HTC’s new Desire handset, “the Desire is undoubtedly an iPhone killer, even if it doesn’t end up selling nearly as many units.”

HTC Desire review.

Are you fucking kidding me you fool! Then what does make an iPhoen killer Asher; a phone that is prettier, has a bigger screen, uses anything but the iPhone OS. Ipso facto, any other phone.

Go back to school, would you please!

And by the way Fairfax, inserting an HTC ad, topping it with another ad and then putting your Technology opener and closer at each end is not quality content.

For fuck’s sake!

I have a reputation amongst my friends and family as an iGeek; an Apple fanboy. While it’s true that I use Apple hardware and software a true fanboy is a lobotomised zombie, incapable of listening to reason and believes Steve Jobs is Christ incarnate.

So because of this reputation I received, and I shit you not, hundreds of enquires wanting to know when I’m getting my iPad. Now pay attention to this very carefully; I NEVER EVER BUY FIRST GEN TECHNOLOGY, ESPECIALLY FROM APPLE!

I had the opportunity to buy an iPhone on the day they were launched in the US. My father was in New York staying at a hotel over looking the 5th Avenue Store. I even called him and asked him to line up and grab one for me. Then changed my mind. And very happy I was about that decision. My current iPhone 3GS is lightyears ahead of the prototype that was being sold then. The same will be true for the iPad too.

This flow chart explains my thinking perfectly.

I can’t imagine why anybody would want to be a beta tester for Apple. Especially when YOU’RE paying for the privilege. But I do appreciate all the fanboys who are going to part with their hard earned dollars (probably on their credit card) to help Apple out with their R&D. I might look buying iPad 2.0 which will be faster, lighter, cheaper, have double the GBs and look cooler.

Best of Green: Culture & Celebrity : TreeHugger.

The world’s largest and probably most prestigious short film festival, Tropfest is on Sunday 21st February.

As the end of summer approaches The Domain in Sydney is overtaken by thousands and thousands of short film makers, their friends, family and fans for this amazing annual event.

I was lucky enough to be asked to shoot stills for one of this years entries which has already been accepted into the Top 60. The director and producer are now waiting to hear if they made the Top 16 – these are the ones screened on the night.

It’s a spectacular event and typically very, very funny. If you haven’t been before, or haven’t been for a while, this is the year to go!

You may be surprised to learn I’m not a fan a pedophiles. Honestly, I hope you aren’t surprised. But an interesting benefit has emerged from the saga that is; where do pedophiles who have done their time live when released from the big house?

To date, Dennis Ferguson has been relocated no less than three times since being released from prison for doing the evil that he does. (As he was convicted by a court I have no hesitation reporting Mr Ferguson as guilty).

In his most recent digs the local community, as with the situation at his other addresses, discovered a convicted pedophile was living in their area and alerted the press who of course made it impossible for him to remain living their by shinning their spot lights upon him which fanned the flames of the tinder box mentality within the mob which quickly forming and gained momentum.

All mobs have a leader. This person is not elected or really even decided upon by the rank and file of the mob in any formal manner. S/he is usually the loudest and most opinionated, ie, the biggest dick head.

So this turn of events as reported by The Sydney Morning Herald is fascinating as it would seem that the pathetic little excuse for a human known as Dennis Ferguson won an AVO (Apprehended Violence Order) against the mob leader – some Aryan style  media man-whore who would have joined the Hitler youth as soon as the recruiting officers visited his school and probably turned his mother and father into his Nazi superiors.

This means that the mob leader can’t approach (legally) the pedophile. Although one may well ask; why would you want to?

It could be that the in some strange reversal of fortune that the law while protecting the lowest of low human forms may be protecting us all from the dimwitted mentality of the mob.