Dear Lee, I read with interest your comments in this morning’s Age and thought the best way to deal with them was as openly and transparently as possible, especially as the sub-text of today’s article was that On Line Opinion was being less than open and transparent. The way I intend to conduct this interview […]

The Age published an article this morning which implies that On Line Opinion “pulled” an article by Greens MLC Lee Rhiannon for political reasons. This is completely incorrect. We declined the article because we publish op-ed material, and this was not an op-ed piece. If they have a different view The Age can easily publish […]

Susan Prior, Editor of eJournal On Line Opinion www.onlineopinion.com.au is runner-up in the Sydney Freelance Writers’ Good Editor Awards. Chief Editor and Founder of On Line Opinion, Graham Young congratulated Susan. “In a world where editors are notorious for only returning calls if you have copy they desperately want, Susan stands out not just for […]

When Japanese whalers were rammed in Antarctic waters by Greenpeace three years ago it took them days to get the evidence to support their side of the story up on the web. Today is the third time that they claim to have been rammed, but only the first time that photos have gone up reasonably […]

More people watched Barrack Obama’s inauguration via the web than on broadcast TV. (Hat tip to FastGov). That may be the moment when television ceased to be Television anymore (to borrow from Nicholas Negroponte who said “[t]he key to the future of television is to stop thinking about television as television”). It may also just […]

It’s probably actually a Chinese disease originally, but the idea that you can somehow control the Internet, which has infected Senator Conroy’s office leading to the Clean Feed initiative, has claimed its first victim in Britain. Tom Watson, the UK “Civil Service Minister Cabinet Office working with fellow ministers Ed Miliband and Phil Hope” is […]

This naturally follows-on from my previous post. Jennifer Marohasy is a blogger who frequently challenges the majority position and as a result often receives information that is ignored by the mainstream. Two years ago she was the first with video evidence that Greenpeace had rammed the Japanese whaling vessel the Nisshin Maru. This contradicted propaganda […]

Jay Rosen says on Twitter: “You know why there are bloggers, @Newshour? Because there is “safety first” reasoning in news. People get sick of it and take up their pens.” Not sure that I totally agree. Why do I blog? I’m a statistically inadequate sample of one, so this is not a rebuttal of the […]

Labor MP James Bidgood is in trouble for taking a photograph and selling it to a newspaper chain in return for a donation of $1,000 to a charity of his choosing. Perhaps I have a tin ear, but what has he done wrong? Or is this an extension of the principles that have led to […]

I’m speaking at the AEF conference in Canberra today on the subject of blogging and politics. Except that I’ve unlitaterally decided to extend it beyond blogging and to talk about the uses of the Internet in politics, with a few examples. I’ll summarise the speech after I’ve delivered it, but as you can probably tell […]