Blogs worth monitoring – week 13
As an avid reader and lover of books, I enjoyed the blog on the Frankfurt book fair on the BuzzMachine webpage this week.
Wikipedia classifies the Frankfurt Book Fair as the largest book trade fair in the world.
Jeff Jarvis, from BuzzMachine, attended the Frankfurt Book Fair to speak with the editor in chief of Zeit Online, Wolfgang Blau.
Wolfgang Blau. (Photo taken from: http://www.oecdministerialseoul2008. org/en/programmee/speaker_view.html?id=74)
Whilst there, Jarvis received a nice surprise when he discovered a pop art version of one his books featured on a wall at the book fair.
Jeff Jarvis and his book cover. (Photo taken from webpage: http://www. flickr.com/photos/16417087@N02/2952836342/in/photostream/).
This blog made a nice change from the economic turmoil that the world is experiencing and it was also nice to read a blog that didn’t contain the words Palin and Obama.
I watched with much interest on Monday as Channel 7’s Sunrise program introduced a new section to their show.
Each Friday Monte Dwyer will present a short piece on a place in Australia.
The interesting thing about this is that Monte will write, film, interview and edit the story for production.
Monte is travelling around Australia alone and with the aid of a MacBook Pro (that was released last week), editing software and the Telstra Next G network, he will be sending stories back to Sydney for broadcast.
It will be a studio on wheels.
It was fantastic to see the technology being utilised by mainstream journalists.
