This is interesting Blog news. Issue Dynamics Inc have released a formal Blogger Relations Practice (read: Public Relations Practice). The idea is to utilise (read: manipulate) the blogsphere for the gain for their clients - who they claim includes “fortune 50 corporations, national trade associations, advocacy groups and political party committees.”
The site certainly […]

My frustration with the Green movement was a motivation for my thesis. There are many interlinking problems. My post below about Monbiot serves to highlight the lack of radicalism, while this post on the Center for Media and Democracy’s blog points to the lack of grassroots mobilisation.
What began as a formidable popular movement […]

I don’t like to speak ill of the recently deceased and I avoid commenting on issues I don’t have a reasonable grasp of (although occasionally I do slip here).
For this reason I haven’t commented on the passing of Sir Joh. I can’t imagine I’d have anything particularly nice to say about him and he […]

George Monbiot makes an excellent point here:
“Wind farms, while necessary, are a classic example of what environmentalists call an “end of the pipe solution.” Instead of tackling the problem – our massive demand for energy – at source, they provide less damaging means of accommodating it. Or part of it. The Whinash project, by replacing […]

Overseas students are clearly a massive revenue stream for Australian Universities. The internationalist in me says that they shouldn’t need to be fee paying to use our universities but let’s just put that down to some wide radical lefty ideal that bears little relevance at this point.
As this article would indicate, these students are […]

The Melbourne Culture Jammers have been doing a fine job around town and now these enthusiastic kids are trying to get a few dollars under their belt so they can be that little bit more effective.
So if you hate multi-national corporations like I hate them then why not pop along to their benefit gig:

My beloved readers, hello and sorry.
Things have been busier then usual and I haven’t been able to blog as often as I like to.
So my thesis is still being proof read buy a couple of people and I am eternally in their debt - some great and helpful feed back so far as well as […]

Another one from the PR Watch bunker:
In a speech at the American Society of Newspaper Editors’ conference, News Corporation chief executive Rupert Murdoch pondered the impact that the growth in online news is having on newspapers. “The trends are against us,” he warned. Murdoch also mused on the possibilities of harnessing bloggers to […]

PR is an ongoing theme on this blog so I was interested to read this from Crikey via PR Watch:
The president of the Public Relations Institute of Australia’s (PRIA) Victoria chapter, David Hawkins, bluntly summarised the results of a membership survey as, “Most people think the PRIA sucks. The average score across all members was […]

Some interesting discussion going on over at Larvatus Prodeo about the use of government funding for NGOs.
I weighed in at the end of the comments and I don’t think I really have much else to say but it’s worth a read all the same.