So, some time ago I was on the TV talking about media, both social and ‘old’, newspapers and the future of both. The embeddable player at the time was broken so I never got it on here and I actually forgot about it. That is, until someone sent me a YouTube link.

For the record, I was actually incredibly ill the day we filmed this at the ABC offices in Ultimo. That’s my excuse for why I look so terrible. As for what I actually say? Well, that’s all me. I would say that I was edited to put me more in opposition to Gerard Noonan, but that’s all good.

Anyway, this is it. Enjoy.

Certainly interesting to see this now, about a year and a half after it first went to air and to reflect on the fact that we’re still having many of these discussions, especially as newspapers tout tablets as their saviors and independent organisations, like the late, great New Matilda, still struggle to lock down revenue models.

All discussion at the moment is about the election, but after that dust has settled it will be interesting to look at who did the best at covering the campaign and what indicators this can have for what news organisations are doing it right, and which no longer deserve to be saved?

EDIT: So, it’s all over. Julia is in, Rudd is out, and Swan is Deputy. For the history books, Rudd stood aside so there was no vote as there was no contest. We live in interesting times.

So, tonight was interesting, to say the least. Australian politics erupted tonight with the news that Julia ‘Et Tu Brute?’ Gillard has been back by the Labor Right and others to move against Kevin ‘I Thought I Was Doing OK’ Rudd.

Naturally, with Canberra going to hell in a Spill basket the Twittersphere also exploded into speculation, breaking news and bad jokes. Being a bit of a politics nerd who lives with an even bigger political nerd, as well as others, we all followed the discussion pretty closely.

Below I’ve collected my tweets from the night, many of which pulled in info/jokes and other randomness from others. I think it’s pretty interesting to watch how the storm of information happened. If anyone has an archive of the #spill hashtag from the night I’d love to see it, so contact me via email or on Twitter.

Read more »