Archive for July, 2008

Updated contact details

July 7th, 2008 • 21 comments Uncategorized, all posts
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I have commenced a new position as News Editor at ZDNet Australia and no longer work at the Australian Financial Review or MIS Magazine. My new e-mail is renai dot lemay at zdnet dot com dot au. My new phone is 02 8514 9907.

Plugger.com.au tracks board-level links

July 4th, 2008 • Uncategorized
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When I attended the launch of Ross Dawson’s top 100 Australian Web 2.0 applications list a few weeks ago, there was a lot of complaining going on about how the mainstream media (although the Australian Financial Review attracted some praise at the time as a notable exception) wasn’t taking Web 2.0 seriously, how nobody would cover the space, complain, moan etc.

At the time I wrote on my twitter page that any startup with an interesting yarn to tell could contact me. And Plugger.com.au did. They had an interesting yarn which was appropriate for the AFR audience; you can read the story on MISAustralia.com here. It ran in this morning’s AFR.

The lesson here: mainstream media does listen to Australian startups, if they talk to it.

Rachel Johnson-Kelly appointed ASIC CIO

July 2nd, 2008 • 23 comments Uncategorized
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Scoop! In last Tuesday’s Australian Financial Review newspaper I broke the news that the Australian Securities and Investments Commission had appointed former IBM staffer Rachel Johnson-Kelly to be its new chief information officer. You can read the story here on MISAustralia.com.

I also had a story resulting from an interview with Shell Australia’s country IT manager, Morgan Hurwitz. You can find that story here.

Keep pushing

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours."

About

This is the personal blog of Renai LeMay, a Sydney-based journalist, writer and publisher.

I am the proprietor of LeMay & Galt Media, a new media publishing company which publishes Australian technology publication Delimiter, science fiction and fantasy site Keeping the Door, and this blog.

You can contact me through email, at renai@delimiter.com.au, or by Twitter: @renailemay. My direct line is 02 8011 4539.

I am one of Australia's best-known technology journalists. I used to work as the news editor at CBS Interactive publication ZDNet.com.au, where I managed the site’s newsroom and reporters. In addition, I have been a technology reporter for the nation's premiere newspaper The Australian Financial Review, where I also contributed to MIS Magazine and other Fairfax publications like AFR Boss and Smart Investor.

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