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What I’ve Learnt from the Express Media Electioneerers

Okay, I know – it’s been a while. What can I say, rather than contributing to my own blog I’ve been spending the past four weeks completely immersed in the creations of seven other incredible bloggers: the Express Media Electioneerers.

I’ve mostly been on the sidelines, attending to all the nitty gritty details (resizing images, responding to questions, proofreading, etc) whilst these seven immensely talented bloggers go to town covering the lead up to the federal election that was and in its wake as our nation struggles to decide who it wants to be in charge. It’s been an incredible rewarding role and I’m not sure how I’m going to cope without the constant stream of emails from my new friends, continually filled with exciting policy debates and wisely constructed opinion pieces.

What I’ve loved most about working with these guys and girls is just how they went from students to bloggers to skilled political journalists in their own right, ‘penning’ articles catering to a previously attention deprived and politically disinterested youth.  A community was developed and lessons learned along the way.

Electioneerers, I applaud you.

Here’s just a taste of the sharp, witty and incredible poignant work that was created for Electioneering. After you’re done with this excerpt from Zach Kitschke, head on over to Electioneering to see just how capable young journalists are.

Blogger v. journalist: my election night escapades

My first press pack experience it was! And I learnt you have to be quick. With my SLR and Zoom audio recorder in tow, I was just a tad too late on the scene. While I made it over just before he started to speak, I actually couldn’t see or hear Australia’s most popular Greenie. Clambering on a chair, then onto a table, I managed to spot Brown in the centre of it all. As I stepped back to ground floor my phone started to buzz. Although I could now see the back of Brown’s head, I had unwittingly become the photo bomber in Bob Brown’s ‘Greenslide’ speech. My pocket buzzed as the messages came through – “move left!” and “get a bloody hair cut”. Feeling a little out of place I pretended to be doing something. A few photos there, a nod here…you get the picture. Bob Brown left after a while and the flash crowd again subsided.

By this stage it was becoming increasingly apparent the government had ‘hung’ itself (Hmm, I know). Joel and I put a few pieces up online as we heard from our bloggers in Melbourne in Sydney. They were also reporting a lack of anything much at their end. “Not much to see; big room with a TV” informed Fraser at the Melbourne Gillard event. “Hmm yes I’m here, but it’s a large amount of nothing”, messaged Sophie from Abbott’s do.

And the Electioneerer’s are off…

Presented by Express Media and supported by The Myer Foundation, Electioneering is a brand new blog. Its aim? To cover the 2010 Federal Election the way young voters need it to be – free from political jargon and with a focus on the way the big issues affect young people.

This project is near and dear to my heart and I’m absolutely thrilled to be involved with it.

See what these eight brilliant writers have to say and get involved with this Election!

How to Make A Blogger’s Day – An Ode to Two Loyal Followers

I’m embarrassed to admit that this post is long LONG overdue. I’ve mentioned many times that blogging has been a bit of a journey for me over the past year – trying to find the right niche, the right voice and sustain content during busy periods of uni and work. However, as most bloggers would agree, there is nothing like a blog comment to make a blogger feel like what they’re doing is worthwhile. Read More »

Twitter Giveaway

There’s nothing I like more than combining old and new media. I love classic literature, I love magazines and I love Twitter.

So, in the spirit of embracing what Henry Jenkins dubs convergence culture, I am giving away a copy of -

Twitterature: The World’s Greatest Books Retold Through Twitter

by Alexander Aciman and Emmett Rensin

For your chance to win your own copy, simply follow @RoughReview on Twitter and retweet the following  - it’s that easy!

RT @RoughReview Giveaway!  ’Twitterature: The World’s Greatest Books Retold Through Twitter’ http://bit.ly/9HMtlO

Entries will close on Sunday 18th of April. A winner will be picked randomly, good luck!

Best of…last week.

Here are just a few of the articles, websites and magazines I found inspiring this week…

GWAS Notes: Girl Power Lessons, Glossip Sickness and a Sister Site

This post by Erica, one of my favourite bloggers, broke my heart a little bit. The truths about print media mixing with the honest blogosphere are not merely folktales. Blogs mixing with big-business = no go. The internet isn’t as free as we thought it was. =(

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Best of Valentine’s Day Tweets

Be awesome to each other

@definatalie

Blogged: Be awesome to each other http://bit.ly/c3AjNN [definatalie.com]

Inspired by Capote

@ManviDH

love this fab collage RT @thisisglamorous: {valentine’s inspiration: breakfast at tiffany’s}: . . . . http://bit.ly/dCBGCx


Red Velvety Love Potion

@GuyKawasaki

How to make the perfect V-Day martini http://om.ly/fLFj

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5 Things to Hate About Twitter

Yes, they do exist.

As much as I love it, my deficiencies when it comes to social media are alarming behind for a blogger. At first, I loved Twitter – I’ve written multiple essays featuring the tool and have praised it from the very beginning.

By Shovelling Son

After downloading Tweetdeck, my love soon turned to obsession. I would find myself sitting on Twitter all day long, following links and finding info like it was a game on which my life depended. Luckily, final essays rolled around and I had to kiss my Tweeting habit goodbye for a couple of weeks.

Now, I’m back. Kinda. It’s been a hard road back too – why? Here’s five things I hate (but also secretly love some of them…) about Twitter.

Information Overload

When I first started Tweeting, I had a modest group of followers and those who I followed. It was nice – I made new friends and it was all very…manageable. But, the whole point of Twitter is, of course, to have more than just a handful of people you’re keeping tabs on. So I followed some more. And some more. And now there’s so many people and so many different tweets it does my head in trying to keep up. Make them stop!!!!!

Time Vacuum

There are two types of Twitter users: those who have Twitter on in the background whilst at home or at work, glancing back every so often to see what’s going on. And then there are those who sit in front of their Tweetdeck or other such program and spend their entire day clicking on links and playing the Twitter ‘game’ non-stop in a highly impractical an frustrating way. Before you know it, the entire day has vanished before your eyes and you’ve seen it all happen on Twitter.

I am one of the latter.
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Web: Visual tweets – much easier on the eye.

I’ve always been a visual person.

I often need to draw things to accurately convey directions or something of the like and fight a constant battle with my subconscious compulsion to talk with my hands.

Therefore, I think Odessa Begay of the Museum of Modern Tweets has hit the nail on the head with her wonderful illustrations of celebrity tweets – suddenly the Twittersphere isn’t so overwhelming!

Thanks to Alltop for the heads up!

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Web: Mac-O-Lanterns!

I lol’d…

mac o laterns

As if Macs aren’t scary enough as it is! That being said, at least they’re being put to good use.

*shudders*

You can find out how to make these scary little things here.

Kanye Disrespects TechCrunch

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Totally. Love. New. Internet. Memes.

Kanye Disrespects TechCrunch

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