Laurel Papworth has extracted the names of Australian bloggers from the latest AdAge Power150 index, which ranks the world's top media and marketing blogs, to form a list of influential Australian bloggers. A few points of interest... BannerBlog, which I profiled at OnVoiceOver a while back, is number two on the Australian list, and Duncan Macleod's Duncan's TV Ad Land, also near the top of ... Read full entry

An Anglo, downunder, variation on the BarCamp concept: PubCamp, taking place in Sydney on 18 June, and Melbourne on 23 June. The Web is now sixteen years old. Like most teenagers, it's obsessed with its social life and wears strange clothing. It thumbs its nose at convention and is impossible for most normal grown-ups to understand. It's not mature yet, but growing up fast. And while it may be out ... Read full entry

Traditional media (TV, newspapers, radio) has progressively been losing readers and viewers, as more people go online looking for information and entertainment. In a bid to redress the balance, media companies in conjunction with ISPs, are apparently preparing plans to limit the number of websites that will be available for general consumption, thus enforcing a television like viewing regime upon internet audiences. The entire media and marketing ... Read full entry

A list of top social media commentators compiled by Sydney communications consultant Trevor Cook. If you keep up to speed with the ideas of the people in this list you are going to sound pretty impressive when social media gets discussed at your workplace.