EAVB_HCTIQXBLJD In addition to the 24hr News channel a “second front” has opened up in this battle between commecial media and the public broadcaster, and the concern is that in these enviroments if the ABC are allowed to compete you will create market failure – that is where private companies that have been able to operate will move away because it is economically unviable when your comeptitor can provide a superior service for free. [...]
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I must say I was surprised when I found out who spent the greatest average time per user on such Social Networks as Twitter and Facebook. Australian’s consumed almost 7 hours per user, with the United States and the United Kingdom a close second and third. But if you are starting a social media venture you might want to launch in Brazil… [...] Both the ABC announcement of a new 24-hour news channel in direct competition with existing media outlets and the way they are conducting themselves demonstrates that the ABC has lost its way. What was an independent, non-competitive supplier of quality public services is now morphing in into a government funded News Corp or Fairfax. [...] Waking up this morning I heard the news about Brittany Murphy’s passing so I went and “googled” it and sure enough the search confirmed the story. But as I scanned through the numerous results I saw a new window embedded in the page I had not noticed before which was continuously scrolling with updates. The Brittany Murphy story was breaking before my eyes via a “dynamic stream” of real-time content from such sites as Facebook, MySpace, FriendFeed, Jaiku, Identi.ca and of course Twitter. This was not static content – this was news and opinions as it happened… [...] |
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