“I’ve poked its belly button a bunch of times, but there’s no light in my castle!” arseh.at/t44
Thursday, fuck youse! Have some patience, dammit! This isn’t a fucking iPad!
Orly?
All will be revealed next week. So to speak. On Thursday night.
Oh this is too easy.
No, @NathanaelB, the DMs are all shorter than 140.
Exchanging DMs about penis length.
@m_mountebank Goodness me, that references events from HOURS ago! Should I be worried?
Just so it’s clear, @ScottAsia @jonrussell, I completely disagree with that definition of journalism.
New bottle.
“How dare you still run a website that cost you money to make when I’ve decided it’s not cool and you should make it in something else.”
Also, I’m so 1337 because I go on and on about Flash being bad. And yes, I know “1337” is so 1987. Kinda my point.
@JustinDMcDonald Indeed, it’s most handy, is it not? ;)
I pwn the bell curve.
“Goatfaced”?
I am the 5%.
@Drag0nista Didn’t you say you were going to read thingo’s book? Liar.
MT @RealNickHodge: Just as “IT Industry” isn’t filled with software developers; “Media Industry” isn’t filled with Investigative Journalists
I do wish that sometimes, occasionally, those debating The Role of Journalism acknowledged how 95% of working journalists spent their day.
RT @bleeters: I’d call that role ‘investigative journalist’ [Precisely. Journalism all grandiosely assuming it’s all so fine.] /cc @ozjimbob
I do hope people didn’t jump to the arsehat conclusion of me RTing something being me saying it myself. Ahem.
Except, @ozjimbob, the vast majority of working journalism is just summarising things easily findable. Media events, sports results etc.
RT @ozjimbob: best definition of journalist I know is “someone who tells public something they wouldn’t normally be able to find out”.
@ladyhana Yeah, must be research. Given that Ron Jeremy is on my list for the coming week.
MT @en_gy: … but the skank with her tits out drinking a cruiser as her mate peed in the garden… [Jealous of this rich culture.]
@jonoabroad Good. Well that’s settled then. arseh.at/t3x
Why is “girl on girl mud wrestling” in my Google Search cache?
Howard Beale bought a plastic bracelet, don’t worry.
@jonoabroad Look, I’ve spoken to you about that before, haven’t I?
As for hand-starting the generator, @R_Chirgwin, it’s a BLOKE thing. You wouldn’t understand.
RT @_LeonieGSmith: Personally I think there’s huge snobbery in Journalism, and its all pretty silly… [THIS TIMES ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND!]
I would hate to think that someone I respected professionally would turn out to be a prescriptivist arsehat when it came to spelling.
It’s true, @R_Chirgwin @_LeonieGSmith, I’ve washed and folded so many towels today I should also be describing the ladies available tonight.
@_LeonieGSmith I linked earlier to my views on this, including arseh.at/1kc and arseh.at/p0q
@_LeonieGSmith I am both a journalist a blogger. I commit acts of journalism and I blog. I also cook, make videos, edit audio…
That wasn’t directed at anyone in particular, obviously, except for the people it should be directed at. You can imagine who you are.
So, unless you have something to add that hasn’t been said in 50 fucking media conferences in the last 5 years, it’s 5pm Saturday fuck off.
Now I’m getting irritated with this idea you can attach permanent labels, “X is a journalist”, “is” being forever, excluding other labels.
@_LeonieGSmith Yeah well “some” are arsehats. If I do an MBBS I’m not a doctor unless I do doctoring. Just slap the fools.
@R_Chirgwin This is all about the typodescriptivists, right? “No, Richard, use THIS finger for THAT key! [slap!]” I bet they were nuns.
So, after doing all the chores this morning I wasn’t going to do any work today. Yet here I am, sphincter-deep in The Nature of Journalism.
I am not to be held responsible for the typing mistakes in recent tweets because of the politics of envy.
I’d call it all a straw man argument but there’s not that much straw in the entirety of Hans Christian Anderssn’s ouevre, let alone here.
For once (once!) I’d like to see “explanations” based on something other than century-obsolete bullshit. See earlier tweet about bulldozers.
So The Australia bemoans “rift being fuelled by politics, ideology”, then explains it as “Centre Right to Centre Left” drift? Y-fucking-awn!
RT @jeamland: Lying under a tree listening to a bunch of people covering Born To Be Wild on ukeleles. #womadelaide [Did you bring a gun?]
Is it worth mentioning that I’m not a member of the MEAA, despite their “encouragement”, but that’s mostly because I’m not a joiner.
RT @R_Chirgwin: @miss_shiny @stilgherrian I should add that there are hanging bogs on three sides… [And I put fresh paper in them all.]
Has the MEAA chucked anyone out recently for breaches of journalistic ethics or standards? (Not that the MEAA is the sole arbiter…)
I’d also like to see the most flagrant abuses of the word “journalism” get people chucked off the list. /cc @jonaholmesMW
So loosely, @jonaholmesMW, “acts of journalism” just be being committed, not just random typing on the internet. Sure. But…
In the absence of knowing what those standards are, @jonaholmesMW, sure. Play the game to get the game’s protections.
RT @jonaholmesMW: J Disney of Press Council suggests shield laws shd apply only to those who agree to abide by Council standards. Fair?
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Did I really post a photo with the caption “Imagine slaughtering them all en masse”? Oh, I did. flic.kr/p/btsgQa
@ericscheid Ah what PayPal is doing about “certain genres of literature” heads where my legal knowledge runs out. Especially transnational.
@ericscheid You know Finkelstein’s thing was really just ~two sentences rather than a thorough-through plan, right? No-one knows.
“Prepared for bushfires,” @miss_shiny? Yep, at the first sign of danger I leave, and make sure everyone else does too.
@ericscheid But, a related issue, how webfolk think of domains / sites / pages is not the same as how media law sees such things.
@ericscheid Twitter isn’t the best medium for this, but the law is clearer than you may think and Finkelstein just worded his report poorly.
@ericscheid There’s a whole background about why taking on the moderation (i.e. editing) of forums makes you liable for, say, defamation.
@ericscheid Gotcha, but no, because the overall editorial control (deciding on content) is the editor and/or publisher, not the journalist.
@NanoPunk Though I have nothing to wear…
@NanoPunk I’ll have my people talk to their people and then talk to your people about the people.
@R_Chirgwin Thank you. This is starting to show the look of imagery I’d like to collect for Bunjaree Cottages.
New photo: “The track at Bunjaree Cottages”, showing just how secluded it is. flic.kr/p/boSxrq
I’m not, @ericscheid, in law about “publication” it’s about who’s responsible for the content. Though, yes, “site” is technically wrong.
RT @ericscheid: @stilgherrian @jonaholmesMW I’m baffled by the reference to individual pages/accounts on Facebook being distinct “sites”.
New photo: “Welcome to Banksia Cottage” flic.kr/p/boSyq9 Ping @R_Chirgwin
New photo: “Today’s Rosella”, because they just own this place. flic.kr/p/boSz15
@NanoPunk I know this is hard to imagine, but… IT’S EVEN MOAR BETTEROR THAN SENATOR CONROY!
@NanoPunk A treat? Hmmm. Maybe I should ask you to accompany me to a very special media event on Wednesday.
LOOK, THE BOTTLE THAWED LONG AGO, PEOPLE! I MADE THAT CLEAR IN MY FIRST TWEET, YOU INATTENTIVE ARSEHATS!
@MrPkD It’s just wrong. By all means critique someone’s work, and play the game hard if it deserves it, but that’s just…. ermph!
@MrPkD Hmmm… I don’t mind people having fun at my expense, well, within reason, but there’s some nasty sexist crap on that page.
RT @BernardKeane: Crikey would be interested in your frozen bottle of wine, yes. [Well as long as that’s clear, then.]
Note to up-and-coming journalists: That’s how you pitch stories to editors. Kinda.
I know it’s Saturday, but does anyone want to pay me to write about this stuff for Monday? Not the cunt bit, the other stuff.
So, this bottle of sauvignon blanc that I found frozen solid in the freezer. Now that it’s thawed it all has to be drunk immediately, right?
Whereas this one wasn’t, the cunt.
RT @RealNickHodge: This tweet has been cleared by the Australian Tweet & Blog Social Media Censorship Board Act (2012) under 52.2(i)
@JuzZelig I understand your point, though I don’t know enough about the skills of the individuals involve to comment.
@Margarita890 Thank you, though the versions you see there are the end result of 3 or 4 years of polishing my arguments. :)
@jkerrison Thank you. I do get frustrated when the online equivalent of a dinner table conversation gets browbeat for not being journalism.
@Drag0nista @jonaholmesMW Well, Finkelstein at least outlined the problems and gave us a bone to fight over. Surely there’s more in it?
Oh, also this one at @ABCthedrum: “When is a journalist not a journalist?” About a specific case. arseh.at/p0q /cc @Margarita890
@jonaholmesMW @jason_a_w It struck me as remarkably sloppy for Finkelstein to write “hits” rather than any of the industry-standard terms.
I’ve written a LOT about journalism vs blogging, @Margarita890, here’s one of the more recent ones. arseh.at/1kc
@Margarita890 “Journalism” and “blogging” are different activities, IMO. A person can do either or both, as well as chef, mother, driver…
As an aside, I find it fascinating to see where and when I’m tagged “journalist” and where “blogger”. That’s a rhetorical trick in itself.
@jonaholmesMW Social media is conversation that happens to be public, rather than publishing that happens to be done by non-professionals.
@jonaholmesMW I know “news media” was in his terms of reference, but I think social media is approached from the wrong end generally…
@jonaholmesMW The “anger” in that headline wasn’t mine. I’m just baffled by Finkelstein, at least fuzziness about what is/isn’t news.
@NewtonMark Thought it does seem odd to toss a 400-page report onto the table and say you’re not going to talk about it.
@NewtonMark Finkelstein pissed off? No idea, sorry. I had a bit of a shit week and didn’t drill as deeply into it all as I’d have liked.
@sroc This avatar does seem to meet with wide approval, which is probably why I keep drifting back to it.
Oh, I seem to have said something in the Fairfax papers today, just a little, about the Finkelstein media review. arseh.at/t3p
I just found an empty Rekorderlig bottle in the recycling, @R_Chirgwin. These people should be banned from staying here ever again.
What a useful and not-too-energetic morning of chores! And now it’s 22C, a bright blue sky, and the mountains are glorious today.
(Mind you, I’ll probably take Twitter with me, because… oh… um… I don’t know.)
I’ll consider and reflect upon your searing wit when I return from the other end of this 300m track with some chores done.
Sat plan: Washing, cleaning and other chores; lunch; end of plan.
There must be a single word that combines “coffee”, “entitlement” and “stabworthy”… [scratches head]
Saturday?