I teach Journalism at University – and one of the lectures that I deliver is on how to make Journalism pay, in the digital era. There is a feeling – based on some pretty good evidence – that ‘old media’ is a dying delivery system … that newspapers, TV and Radio as we know them, are doomed…
The theme for our travel pics this week (and a bit) is I, for Italy. One of the things that you find, when you visit Rome, is that you can aim your camera almost at random, and get a great picture. This one, for example, is of the ‘Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus…
The theme for our travel pics this week (and a bit) is I, for Italy. We can’t be certain that is picture is from Italy – it’s possible that we were still over France at this stage – but I don’t believe so. Other photos that we took a few minutes earlier show us passing what…
Here’s the seventh episode of Rear View Microphone – the weekly podcast covering Travel, and Tourism, and Cruising, and Communications, and Arts and Entertainment, and Politics and more … This week – lots of cruise news – including passengers having rocks thrown at them in Port Vila, but also lots of ‘good news’ stories about cruising; in…
This week’s Saturday Arts post is an amazing treat for fans of Jazz and Swing – 650 tapes · 1,000 hours · 1,378 WAV files · 637 GB · 691 JPEG scans of cassette liner cards & literature. David W Niven was a high school teacher from New Jersey – who compiled 650 cassette tapes of…
The theme for our travel pics this week (and a bit) is I, for Italy. When you go to Venice, you simply have to take a Gondola ride. Yes, it’s cheesy. Yes, it’s cliched, Yes, it is only for tourists. But you still have to take a ride – because, well, it’s Venice, dammit! 🙂…
Vietnam is an interesting place, to a visitor from a ‘liberal democracy’ like Australia. It is, strictly speaking, a communist country and yet many of the social welfare things that we have come to expect – like free schooling – don’t appear to be a part of the Vietnamese psyche. As Al Jazeera pointed out in…
The theme for our travel pics this week (and a bit) is I, for Italy. To be honest, the only time we have spent in Italy is in Rome, and in Venice – plus travelling to-and-from – but even those two cities were amazing. We’ll start with Rome and this magic view of the Colosseum…
I freely admit that I don’t know the ins-and-outs of fundraising. I’ve been a charity fundraiser, back in my days as a student, and I regularly give to charities of my choice – but I’m not entirely up to speed on the arcana of modern fundraising. However, I sometimes have to wonder if fundraisers have…
In my Thursday Thoughts post two weeks ago, I wrote about ‘draining the swamp’ – or dealing with the big picture, and not getting bogged down in the minutiae. And that led one reader to point me to a really useful ‘life hack’ page about the 80:20 rule. The 80:20 rule, as Steve Young points out, is…
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