A Sydney-based journalist and writer

Archive ~ June 2009

June 28, 2009 at 02:25 am

Why Twitter will renew Journalism

Last week I spoke at the Insight Exchange’s Twitter’s Influence on Media and Journalism event in Sydney. You can find the full text of the speech on ZDNet.com.au.
In addition, we sent out the speech as a freely publishable commentary to a number of Australian media sites. I’m proud to say that both Mumbrella and Media [...]

June 16, 2009 at 10:51 am

Upcoming Zen Buddhist Film Festival

Something that not everyone may know about me is that I am a practising Zen Buddhist.
The reason I mention this is that I am helping to organise the upcoming Reel to Real film festival, a Zen film festival being held by my Zen group, Zen Open Circle.
The festival will be held on 21 and 22 [...]

June 15, 2009 at 10:55 am

The Insight Exchange interviews me

I was interviewed here by The Insight Exchange’s Beth Etling. I think this paragraph sums up my view on Twitter and journalism:
As I finished my conversation with Renai, I realised that his position on Twitter is that “Twitter IS the next big thing” and that all media and journalism executives need to embrace the platform [...]

June 15, 2009 at 10:31 am

LeMay: Surname of champions

Great news everyone!

I just found out that my surname, “LeMay”, dates back to medieval France! Apparently it’s quite a famous surname. I quote here from the House of Names website page on the surname LeMay:
“The family name Lemay has made many distinguished contributions in France and New France to the world of science, culture, religion, [...]

June 8, 2009 at 03:36 am

Speech to the CIO Network

On 13 May this year I gave a speech to open The CIO Network’s Sharing Best Practice to Improve Organisational Efficiencies conference.
The speech focused on the fact that I remain optimistic about the future of Australia’s ICT industry, and I put this down mainly to my conversations with chief information officers and IT managers over [...]

June 8, 2009 at 03:13 am

Twitter's impact on media and journalism

On 23 June I will be speaking at an event held in Sydney by fledgling (but innovative) Australian events company The Insight Exchange on the impact of Twitter on media and journalism.
The full panel of speakers for the event hasn’t been confirmed yet, but at least two other speakers will be there; futurist, inventor, writer [...]