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Mental Notes: May 2005

MELBOURNE–Just went a stonking lecture as part of the Deakin Lecture Series with Jay Rosen and Lance Knobel, and chaired by ABC Chairman Donald MacDonald (looking down his nose at it all) titled Reporting Change: the media and innovation. Though it really was looking at all that geeky terminology and putting a substantiating spin on it all – sound familiar, dear reader – it could have gone further by grilling the squirming Mr MacDonald about his own thoughts.

Mental Notes: April 2005

MELBOURNE–Am so tired! It’s not the fine climes of Melbourne killing me, it’s being solo in what should be a team in my new gig. Back to online means back to the usual neglect. Is there any other publishing realm which attracts such piss-poor resourcing? Itchy eyes, 9pm, still hours to go. Should be amusng if I take ill, or better, a holiday. And anyhow… housemate Kate leaving drinkies invite follows. Wei?

Mental Notes: February 2005

SYDNEY–Hunter S. Thompson. New Journalism’s Dark Prince. Dead. Don’t get me wrong, I love the the big T, but if I get any more junk from a self-important baby boomer such as “bringing to a sober close an era of print journalism rooted in the raucous 1960s”, I’ll go postal. He indeed changed j’ism forever. And that’s my two cents.