Category: What I Think

I am soooooo glad I don’t have shares in any TV networks.

Link: BBC nets YouTube deal – BizTech – Technology – smh.com.au.

I’m vexed by the potential sale of QANTAS to a consortia lead by MacBank.

My patriotic side believes this is the end of yet another national icon (brand) being sold off for a quick buck.

My wallet however is greatly relieved that if the sale goes through it will be able to buy flights based on price, service and convenience as opposed to national pride.

Check out the inro to this story on smh.com.au. They were too cheap and or lazy to send a photographer to cover the arrival of Cunard’s Queen Mary II maiden voyage arrival in Sydney Harbour. Instead they want the public to send in some pix via email and SMS. We’ll, I’ve got some fantatic pix and the SMH can have them for $10K. In fact, the story isn’t even from a SMH journo – it’s from our old friends at AAP.

Link: QM2 sails into Sydney harbour – National – smh.com.au.

I just watched LIVE pictures of Cunard’s Queen Mary II arriving in Sydney Harbour. Just one problem; I live on Sydney Harbour and the LIVE pictures TCN 9 was putting to air were 10 – 15 minutes old! I wonder how many times they do this?

This story quotes a website, with no bona fides, which quotes, ‘police sources’.
This is not news, it’s heresay, nothing more. The Herald, for whom I write on a non-paid basis, should be ashamed for re-publishing such drivel from AFP.

Link: The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia’s leading newspaper..

Mr Packer Sn was quoted; “You get one Allan Bond in your life”. Mr Packer was of course referring to the fact that he sold the Nine network to Mr Bond for A$1 Billion and bought it back not so long later for about A$300 Million.

But they days of TV stations or even networks being cash registers are long gone. The producers, the content creators, are the winners now. This post os from my very good friends at The Unoffical Apple Weblog.

Now that cable companies are actually producing qulaity content (SATC, Sopranos et al), and releasing them as podcasts to the world for FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, the opportunities for stations to grab cash from advertisers is long gone.

Imagine a world where news bulletins are put together every hour for syndication. No more are you reliant on the 6pm, 7pm, 10pm or later news bully. Your computer has already downloaded the latest news for you to watch at your convenince – not at theirs.

Comparing Video Podcasts with the iTunes Store TV episodes – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

Link: Comparing Video Podcasts with the iTunes Store TV episodes – The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).

David Pogue of The New York Ttimes agrees with me in this article. Why is no one commenting on Wii being the only game console to get kids’ heart rates above comatose?

My nephew plays xbox for as many hours as his parents let him – and then some. And then some more. And more. Luckily this kid has got skinny genes from his dad so weight is not an issue. Not all his mates are so lucky and the majority of them are porking up.

Be aware – obesity IS the new smoking.

Link: Pogue’s Posts – Technology – New York Times Blog.

Typically it would be the Telegraph that would take a story from another newspaper and run the questonable reporting of that story as news. In this instance the SMH is bashing the crap out the Telegraph over their reporting of the NSW Young Australian of the Year, a Muslim woman, who was arrested on drugs charges.
The linked article below refers to a blog and references may posts from that blog. The article’s author is reporting/arguing that the Daily Telegraph was full of praise for this yong woman until charges against her were made public during the week. However, it fails to mention that in the same week the SMH’s monthly (sydney) magazine also featured a story about this young woman.
It appears that balanced, honest reporting at Fairfax has become optional in it’s long runing war with the the Telegraph. Of course it’s easy to see why; the Telegraph broke the story on Wednesday – the same day the very expensive (in both production and ad rates) (sydney) magazine hit the newsstands.
Link: Anger on Muslim web forum – National – smh.com.au.

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Link: Pogue’s Posts – Technology – New York Times Blog.