Category Archives: Media

Media Tripe and How Not To Use Facebook

I often get frustrated with how technology problems are portrayed in the mainstream media. Invariably, a nameless staff writer gets tapped to write a quick story about a tiny snippet that has appeared on a wire service somewhere, generally without any real knowledge or understanding of what they are trying to write about. This example [...]

Throw Another Geelong Cat On The Barbie?

Geelong Cats AFL player Simon Hogan has been bravely fighting a battle with depression for some time. Depression is a terrible affliction that will affect most people at some time in their lives. There was a nice write up about his struggle on the Geelong Advertiser website this morning: Hogan Gives Insight Into Mental Illness [...]

I Don’t Think So Ten!

Over the last few years, people constantly complain about the amount of advertising the Seven Network puts on during its motor racing telecasts. I don’t actually think it’s too bad, and have shown here and here that the amount is not really all that different than it was 25 years ago, or at any time [...]

ABC News 24 – Circa 1924

Just noticed a rather interesting wardrobe selection on ABC News 24. Is this ABC News 1924?

Another ABC News 24 Fail

Tapping away at my keyboard at work just now, I looked up to the other screen on my desk – (showing some of the outputs of an IPTV solution I am dealing with at the moment) – and I noticed a live prime ministerial press conference on Sky News Australia. It is circled in red [...]

Bathurst and Advertising – Again

At this time every year, we hear people moaning about how much advertising is shown during the annual Bathurst 1000 motor race, with “they show too many ads” being the common catch cry. Long time readers of this blog may remember the analysis I’ve done over the years in regards to just how much advertising [...]

Epic DOOM Comment FTW!

I got a chuckle out of a comment against a story regarding the banning of Facebook for Year 7 and Year 8 students at Geelong College. School Bars Facebook What started as an apparent vote of confidence in the policy turned into vote of confidence for the quintessential series of shoot-em-up games of the 1990′s, [...]

Spelling Mystery…Unsloved

Stumbled across this impressive piece of proofreading fail via Claudia Aitch at claudiaaitch.wordpress.com: The mystery of Channel Seven’s missing spellchecker is, umm, “unsloved”. Or unsolved. One or the other.