Well I have come to the end of KJB222 and it’s been a pretty fun ride. Though the one last thing I want to talk about is Frocks. At the beginning of this semester I began my journey into fashion and style journalism (KFB205). For the last 8 years each cohort of KFB205 is challenged to all work together to produce (from scratch) the annual edition of Frock Paper Scissors (FPS).
Some New Farm residents and cyclists are calling on the Brisbane City Council to review licensing around boot camp operators.
The calls were triggered after a confrontation between a cyclist, Dr Adrian Campbell, and a female trainer from Boot Camps Australia.
The media community, as a whole, love to nark on about twitter and Facebook as a established news medium. It’s no secret. But what about instagram? Tonight as I was making dinner, my 17 year old brother walked in, sat at the table and banged his fist down – “it’s been 3 minutes and I’ve only had 36 likes! He cried”.
In the last two weeks of this subject we’ve focused on how to monetize innovative use of social media and live blogging platforms. I definitely agree both Simon Holt in that any digital-first news model ‘based off facebook won’t work’ but Spencer Howson is also right in saying ‘twitter is a long-term investment to over 20-somethings as they age’.
So how do we build upon what social media can offer?
STORY – (From the Gold Coast Bulletin)
A TEEN who allegedly rammed three police vehicles while leading officers on a two-hour chase through south east Queensland has been denied bail.
The 16-year-old Stockleigh boy, who is facing 15 charges, applied for bail in Southport Magistrates Court today after handing himself in to Coomera Police Station yesterday.
Police will allege he reached speeds of up to 140km h during a two-hour chase that started at Warwick at 10.30am on Sunday when officers sighted a vehicle wanted for an earlier evade police incident.
This afternoon I stumbled upon a tweet link from the Age about teen e-journal sensation Tavi Gevinson and her blog/mag Rookie. I had never heard of of Rookie before but Tavi gave a fairly interesting interview. It was enough to make me click through to the home page where I discovered this article –
Nine months ago I wrote a short opinion piece for the cultural e-journal Daft Blogger called ‘The Future Of Journalism Is (Not) Blogging‘.
After Nikki’s guest lecture in week 2, I decided to revisit my piece to see if my opinions had changed at all. For the most part, they haven’t.
Don’t get me wrong though, it is absolutely awesome that Nikki has made ‘blogging her business’, but what about the thousands of others?
Call me a pessimist, but you only really need to look at the research.
Greetings wordpress,
My name is Alessia. I’m a 21 year old journalism student studying KJB222 (Online Journalism) at QUT. It’s my 7th last subject, which is both exciting and kind of why i’m here really. You’re not new to me. In fact I write another wordpress blog for a freight marketplace called TruckIt.net. You can check that out here.
But that’s enough about wordpress and me, this week I want to talk about twitter and me. I’ve been using this twitter account since December 15 2010 and it’s been a pretty interesting ride.
Using the analytical service Twtrland, here’s a quick snapshot of how my twitter footprint looks like –
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