Trevor Cook: SMH covers the millions being made and paid online

11 March 2006

SMH covers the millions being made and paid online

My friend Tom Burton covers aussie blogpreneurs (Darren Rowse, Duncan Riley and Shai Coggins) as part of his SMH story on the online buying frenzy ie old media buying new online properties to prop up their failing business models, notably this week's purchase of trade me for $674 million. Tom and I worked in Canberra for many years he as a journalist and ministerial adviser me as a ministerial adviser and public servant. On Wednesday this week we had lunch and in the two hours we only spoke of politics for two minutes. The rest of the time was on things net, in fact we spent more time on Ajax and Web 2.0 than we did on the ALP's latest self-destruct frenzy.

11 Mar 2006 06:58:02

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It was fun to meet Tom this week too. Sounds like we had a very similar conversation. I was really impressed with his interest but also knowledge on the scene. Looking forward to reading more of what comes out of his recent research.

Posted by: Darren | 11 March 2006 at 11:09 AM

Even my drinking buddy, Gary, is getting on the golden bandwagon ;-) So Long Mr. Jeeves, Ask.com is Here Gary Price's explanation on Resourceshelf

CODA: Today, if we want to get a message into the public’s conversation, we just make a post on a blog. If The Wall Street Journal goes after a client, we don’t have to accept that anymore. Let’s post the documents we gave The Journal; let's show the interviews the newspaper decided not to show. It used to be I would schmooze you and I was your flack "You're not God anymore"

Posted by: Jozef Imrich | 11 March 2006 at 12:14 PM

Hey Trevor,
as the article stated I'm no longer at The Blog Herald (although I am doing the occasional article) so the link is a little redundant :-)

Posted by: Duncan | 12 March 2006 at 02:09 AM

Duncan - sorry about that, I knew you had sold but I assumed you had some continuing relationship like a work-out clause. Is weblogempire the best location for you?

Posted by: Trevor Cook | 12 March 2006 at 07:27 AM

or duncanriley.com I think

Posted by: Darren | 12 March 2006 at 08:53 AM

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