The Patch Monday podcast that I was producing for ZDNet Australia is no more. It has been replaced by a new weekly column, The Full Tilt, appearing every Thursday.
In The Full Tilt, Stilgherrian delivers an undiluted dose of criticism and analysis of the ways digital technology is changing our world and the spin that goes with it. Mostly in words — sometimes in audio or video formats — always cynical.
Yes, this is the sky-shouting column we were trying to name.
The first installment is Australia’s National Security Strategy? Or Labor’s election-year cyber gimmick?, in which Prime Minister Julia Gillard becomes Queen Boudica, saving us from the cyber-Romans, and builders are supplied with amphetamines No Doz [it seems I got edited]. Yeah, it’s a talent.
So why was Patch Monday dropped? It shouldn’t surprise anyone that a media outlet like ZDNet Australia would be under financial pressures. The simple fact is that my written words pull in a bigger audience than the podcast. And from my point of view, the podcast took far longer to produce than a written article generating the same income.
That said, The Full Tilt will include the occasional audio or video piece, though we’ve yet to decide when and why that will happen.
[Update 1900 AEDT: Edited to reflect the fact that article got edited. It’s not such a talent after all.]
That’s a shame. I listened to “Patch Monday” most weeks and enjoyed that window into the info sec world (even if it often went over my head).
It’s a body of work you should be very proud of, Stil. Well done.
@Shane: Well thanks for that. But with the Patch Monday podcast being made for ZDNet Australia, and that masthead being part of the CBS Interactive empire, it has to pay its way — and there’s an awfully large number of people further up that tree on salaries.