First is 'MySpace Road Tour, which will follow radio and pay-TV personality Jabba as he tours the country to meet 10 of the website's most eccentric users.'.. with others to come. Most deformed dating site users?
Matthew Rickettson does his usual thinky piece for The Age: By 2012, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers, the size of the internet market - and that includes revenue for internet service providers as well as advertising - will be $6.74 billion compared with the size of the newspaper market ($5.85billion) and commercial free to air television ($4.17 billion)".
Australian publisher and producer Lonely Planet has announced a partnership with Nokia to allow users to download local maps to their mobile phones. Lonely Planet, you will remember, was snapped up by BBC Worldwide within living, alcohol-impaired memory.
The Mayor of Mount Isa - the bloke who called for "beauty disadvantaged" women to flock to the mining town, has gone viral on the net. Of course, what he really needed to do was approach FremantleMedia with the idea for a format - but I guess you don't really think about that when you're diggin' da copper.
The Age has discovered that the internet is a problem for television broadcasters and newspaper owners. A - v-er-y sss-lll-ooo-www nooooos daaaaaaay at Fairfax.
Andrew Baron, founder and producer of Rocketboom, has been travelling Australia with a wondrous tale of vision, persistence, and impishness which climaxes in a moment of monetisation.
Nine has announced that it will screen Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos - the show that Kerry Packer famously ordered pulled from air half-way through, and that even Melbourne's Herald-Sun describes as tawdry. Of course, you could always jump on the internet and type a naughty word into Google (just not at work, OK?)
Australian websites will have access to audited, comparable circulation figures for the first time by the end of this year. This will make advertisers happier to spend their money, and publishers happy that the advertisers are happy.
Google has shut off its AdSense service to an anti-Scientology website for the second time in three months. Google claims click-fraud is the reason, but not everybody believes them.
The BBC has released an a capella ring tone promoting the use of condoms in India. Also contains a link to Jackie Chan's Cambodian action-condom advert.
This is the ABC logic, according to Larry Schwartz. We are not sure why Mark Scott felt the need to defend the decision, as the internet screams into overdrive in the back of the shot, just over his shoulder.
iTunes Australian store now has pretty moving images supplied by major studios available for download - if you happen to have workable broadband or a couple of days to spare.
Telecoms analyst Paul Budde believes that Telstra is working on a secret plan to lay fibre to the home, regardless of whether it wins the national broadband network tender.
Stop. Take the moment. Commander - provider of telecommunications to the Australian Communications and Media Authority - has been placed in receivership. Was it a good moment?
Hanging onto Channel Nine like a monkey on an elephant, 'Scorched' is the first domestic cross-media project in Australia that could pull the punters in the mainstream media zoo.
Google has inadvertently photographed a whole slew of public transgressions, now linked by a national newspaper. When you broke into that chemist in your undies, did you really think no-one was watching?
