News
Real Estate slump is over in Australia
first home owner’ bonus will disappear but the property market is booming down under
Sunday Papers (but not as you now them)
Last week Rupert Murdoch announced that the days of free news online will soon be over and News Corp will soon start charging readers’ for access to online news content. Britain’s Sunday Times is tipped to be the guinea pig for the scheme, although the specifics are all fairly vague at this stage.
On the News Corp owned news.com.au Murdoch is reported as saying that, “an industry that gives away its content is cannibalising its ability to produce good reporting.”
What can Twitter teach?
The first thing I did this morning was turn on the radio just in time to catch the news. (Sadly) the second thing was to search ‘Michael Jackson’ on Twitter. Even half asleep I had known that the news would be making Twitter tidal waves. And something that shocked me - I was more willing to trust Twitter, than I was our national broadcaster.
A minute after the first search results appeared, my browser informed me that a further 4500+ Tweets had been published featuring the words ‘Michael Jackson’. Thats about 75 Tweets per second farewelling the King of Pop.
It is time to introduce …
So here they are, the three best interns in ZaaBiz’ Sydney office.
What happened to real news?
Susan Boyle and the chk chk boom girl have inundated our news headlines and online social media for a couple of weeks now. With almost 20,000 fans of Clare Werbeloff (chk chk boom girl) in a Facebook group we must wonder: what has happened to real news? The whirlwind of sensationalised social media has never [...]
