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Like making old things new again. Enjoy working on a far away big tree/cow farm vs inner city digital stuff and with the NBN that's changing, creative lifestyles and digital content businesses. I have 4 degrees in psychology, media, literature, librarianship, management and business including a business PhD that explored how tech created opportunities in the music sector (as a lead indicator to other content sectors). Am fascinated by how people use digital stuff and emerging uses. Slow living, reject unreal or fast lifestyles, I like to know all about what I eat. Maintaining a professional hatred and boycott of Farcebook. Confused about whether to write in 1st or 3rd person on this site. Love animals and have always had them around - cows, horses, chooks, cats, dogs, sheep, goats, camels, budgies. Met lots of snakes too. Enjoy aesthetic immersion and favourite era is 1940-1959. Music obsessive not impartial to late nights watching bands. blah blah blah

Monday, December 21, 2009

Demand Media

Demand media is simply the next step in the commoditisation of news. It is the fast food of news, suited to convenience news users (those who see news by default when they are online doing other stuff like facebook and it pops up - they don't engage with it or pay much attention to it), as opposed to 'restaurant' quality journalism (which is read by 'loyal' or 'customising' users).  It is a threat to media who currently provide tabloid and PR based guff, not to media entities that provide quality original investigative journalism.   Would be interested to see how NewsCorp are reacting to content farms.

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