Re: the "Auto blog guys" -- according to Alexa, 21% of visitors to CarAdvice.com.au are from Australia, ahead of US at 14%. From what I have read the content is pretty Australia-centric and a lot of commenters are too Australians. So there you go, a successful example :)
Otherwise I completely agree with you. The market is so small and sometimes you don't feel like competitive enough -- and people get slack and don't produce good content.
Renai LeMay
· 1 year ago
ZDNet.com.au is a good example of a website which publishes similar stuff to some of the big US blogs. We've been around since before the dot-com boom and have RSS feeds, comment systems, video and so on. Not sure if we qualify as a blog, but we have blogs as part of the site ;)
We do plenty of investigative journalism, and we're staunchly Australian.
Cheers,
Renai LeMay News Editor ZDNet.com.au
Rowan
· 1 year ago
It's not really just blogs either. A lot of Australian small businesses that sell software online rely on the majority of their sales coming from the USA.
But still, it would be nice to see more people try to create more of a startup/blogosphere scene in OZ.
If we're five years behind, then 2008 is the year isn't it?
Stuart Watson
· 1 year ago
I think you've hit the nail right on the head with the numbers argument.
However I also believe that globalisation is having a drastic effect on the information/media industry - and as we go further down that path the importance of location based news will decrease. Take for example the desk you're sitting at: 20 years ago it would have been made by a local carpenter/cabinet maker - fast forward to today and its just as likely to have come from a swedish multi-national company.
When you are looking for a new desk do you look in the yellow pages? or do you look on the net knowing you can probably find something that suits your needs better and can be shipped from anywhere for a minimal cost.
The same principle holds true for politics or finance where the Euro dropping(or rising) or a US bank collapse has more effect on Australia as a whole than almost any change in domestic politics or finance.
Lets just face up to the fact that we're now part of the global information economy and the sooner we realize that the sooner we can stop our share of input from being eroded.
Vishal
· 1 year ago
I think you have put it well Duncan, I have learnt it this in a hard manner in 2 years..
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Otherwise I completely agree with you. The market is so small and sometimes you don't feel like competitive enough -- and people get slack and don't produce good content.
We do plenty of investigative journalism, and we're staunchly Australian.
Cheers,
Renai LeMay
News Editor
ZDNet.com.au
But still, it would be nice to see more people try to create more of a startup/blogosphere scene in OZ.
If we're five years behind, then 2008 is the year isn't it?
However I also believe that globalisation is having a drastic effect on the information/media industry - and as we go further down that path the importance of location based news will decrease. Take for example the desk you're sitting at: 20 years ago it would have been made by a local carpenter/cabinet maker - fast forward to today and its just as likely to have come from a swedish multi-national company.
When you are looking for a new desk do you look in the yellow pages? or do you look on the net knowing you can probably find something that suits your needs better and can be shipped from anywhere for a minimal cost.
The same principle holds true for politics or finance where the Euro dropping(or rising) or a US bank collapse has more effect on Australia as a whole than almost any change in domestic politics or finance.
Lets just face up to the fact that we're now part of the global information economy and the sooner we realize that the sooner we can stop our share of input from being eroded.