There were shenanigans at the AusCERT IT security conference in Queensland last night, with Queensland Police detaining Fairfax journalist Ben Grubb for questioning about a story he wrote at the conference about Facebook hacking.
In non-surprising news that confirms everything we already knew about human beings and the internet, a study by Experian says the NYT’s post-paywall traffic was down between 11 per cent and 30 per cent in the 12 days after the wall went up. [Experian]
Anyone of a currently living generation is used to images of killing and destruction by now – perhaps even desensitised entirely. War correspondent Danfung Dennis wants to change this with a little technology and a lot of visceral emotion.
Robert Stevens captured a gas main explosion on his iPhone 4, edited it with iMovie on his iPad 2 and uploaded it to iReport. CNN and MSNBC picked up the footage after that. Score for citizen journalism.
A study from The Reynolds Journalism Institute in the US has found that iPad users like using the device to stay up to date on the latest news. Big surprise! But they also found that of those who use newspaper apps to facilitate this news-getting, more than half are planning on cancelling their newspaper subscription. So is this good or bad for the papers?
After stories that Rupert Murdoch had binned his adventurous newspaper app project, his son James has said Project Alesia is going ahead, whether other newspapers want their content aggregated or not.
A teenage girl is claiming that her father’s ex-girlfriend, a reporter, took photos of her diary (which she kept in her bedroom) and posted them on a “Gossip Girl”-style fake Facebook page.
You Write ‘Bias Journalism’ And I Read ‘Derp’
First of all, you probably mean “biased”. Second of all, journalism isn’t a term that means “stories you agree with”. Third of all, fuck you.