Man Week offers more evidence that Harto was wrong about bloggers
Now I know that it’s nearly time to stop going on about Harto’s speech.
But, one final thought first.
To remind you, the boss of News Ltd had this to say about the blogosphere:
“Then there are the bloggers. In return for their free content, we pretty much get what we’ve paid for – something of such limited intellectual value as to be barely discernible from massive ignorance.
well done again, Tim 🙂 it’s funny how Rupert’s Minions apparently hate Twitter so much – and Mumbrella and Crikey, lol – i keep thinking about how back in the 80’s when Rupert put all those printers out of work, and moved newspapers out of Fleet St, and told everyone this had to be done or the news industry was dead. He called the printers dinosaurs, said they were out of step with the industry.
Har fucking har 🙂
Great to see that manweek was very positive, It’s great when people open up tell their very personal stories, and others read them and think “Wow, I thought I was the only one”.
Where’s your Man Week post Tim??
Thanks for this list of links Tim. I didn’t know about Man Week.
Hi JoJo,
I must admit that until I came across Mark Pollard’s post last night, I’d missed Man Week, so I guess the moment is gone.
Cheers,
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Tim – Mumbrella
Hi Tim,
I’ve pulled out the tweets from twitter from using #manweek using the search function – some interesting conversation there. Here they are:
http://spreadsheets.google.com.....utput=html
Note – most tweets are published are on topic, although some overlap of the use of “Man Week”
Cheers
Cameron
I never know what to call blogger “original content”. By original content, I mean their OWN stories – not a reporter polishing up stories from sources. Is there a proper name for it – “primary content” perhaps?
Maybe there’s a term for when a journalist becomes the focus of a story – like a reporter who’s been shot, or taken to jail or something? And don’t say “human” 😛
Help me Mumbo wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope!
Hey Tim
Thanks for picking up on Man Week (BTW I have no official connection to it). I meant to contact you about it last week – and get you to write something for it! Opportunity is still there. We could turn it into Man Month.
It was really interesting to see it take off around last Wednesday and Thursday. I think women got a lot out of it too – reading a bunch of stuff explaining how men think, feel.
Was great to be involved with. Now, if you need somewhere to host your Man Month article… 🙂
Mark
and the echo chamber continues to reverberate.