While it’s good to have been writing for Crikey and doing some more radio work, too much of this website lately has just been me pointing to other material elsewhere. It’s time to write more about the things that truly interest me. Yes, I will be trying to find the time for more essays like last year’s Anzac Day rememberings. This will be particularly important if and when my Secret New Project gets the green light — and that’s 90% likely to happen, with the go-ahead in a week or so. Stand by.
Never trust people who write in coloured ink
Not since Saturday Night at The Duke and Another brain in my notebook has a notebook page ended up on this website.
Nicola, your attempt to pass blame to ’Pong is completely transparent. We all know you wrote this. There are witnesses.
My NBN interview on 3RRR
For those of you who missed it, here’s the audio of my interview about the National Broadband Network earlier this morning with Radio 3RRR in Melbourne.
Presenters Michael Williams, Fee B-Squared and Sam Pang wanted to focus on the money. Is $43 billion worth it? Will the NBN make money? Are people afraid of spending this much because they don’t understand the technology? It runs for 5 min 57 sec.
If the player thingy immediately below doesn’t work here’s a direct link to the audio file.
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 5:57 — 6.8MB)
Talking NBN on Melbourne’s 3RRR
I’ll be on Melbourne radio 3RRR tomorrow morning 15 April talking the National Broadband Network at about 7.45am. They’re on 102.7 FM, or you can listen to the live stream.
So what is Stilgherrian, exactly?
I’ve been taking time out across the Easter weekend to ponder my future. As part of that, I’ve started collecting other people’s impressions of me.
There’s three key issues. One, I need to simplify the massive range of media projects I’m doing or have dreamed up, and cut them back to what’s actually possible to achieve. Two, I have to find the right balance between income-generating media projects, purely playful or “public service” media projects which don’t earn money, and perhaps still a few geek-related things which do pay well. Three, how to reach this state of nirvana without pissing off clients or screwing up my cashflows.
Tricky, eh?
Anyway, more on that anon.
Thanks to that Internet thing, I’ve found a few curious descriptions of me already. Can you provide any others?
Mark Scott: NBN will re-shape everything
Mark Scott, Managing Director of the ABC, used his Annual Media Studies Lecture at La Trobe University to explain how the government’s proposed National Broadband Network will change the entire media landscape. Television, music, newspapers, the journalism — the lot. Crikey published the entire text of the speech. It’s worth a read. Twice.