Comments on: Inside Fifteen Melbourne

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:12:35 +0000

Hi Ellie,
And feeds. I often read a lot of blogs via feeds or if people receive the blog via a Feedburner/Feedblitz email they often don’t visit. there’s a huge topic here to be addressed. this is becomng quite a diverse conversation from Fifteen to traffic to Polish beer. Excellent.

By: Ellie

Ellie — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:50:55 +0000

Heh, I’m currently researching/writing an essay on blogging as social networking software (being the media/communications student that I am), have mostly focused on the writers, but that’s an interesting point re: blog readers.

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:11:09 +0000

Reb, Sorry, I’ve just rescued you from junk. I just try and offer something different, call it media diversity if you will. I don’t know if it’s a field any of your communications students would be interested in but I reckon there’s an interesting research project into what drives traffic to blogs. For a start the analytics tools – I have AW Stats, Webalizer and recently Google Analytics – are in the dark ages. Also there is the relationship between blogs driving traffic, search engines, old media. Maybe I’ll try and pitch a story somewhere coming to think of it.

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:32:31 +0000

Mishku, Neil is right, pretty much all that beer was from Acland Cellars.

By: neil

neil — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:03:49 +0000

Can I take the Polish beer one Ed? You can find it plus a million other countries at Acland Cellars, 187 Acland Street, St Kilda, you can also try the importer BJP International at 21 Elma Road, Cheltenham who sell beer and Polish food direct to the public.

By: Mishku

Mishku — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:49:16 +0000

Ok, so totally offtopic but – I found your website while looking for Polish beer in Melbourne. Just got back from 3 months in Poland and have grown accustomed to the beer. Any ideas? HELP!

By: Luke

Luke — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:01:03 +0000

About the Hun and Victorian Racing Club issue. It was the Melbourne Racing Club who run Caulfeild who have had a deal with the age…so that may have been upset at the Hun…..

By: DrReb

DrReb — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:11:34 +0000

Ah – well that’s pretty interesting. Division of consumer media preferences. And I can understand the GT thing. I read your site despite any involvement with the mag ) You produce quality and interesting reading. Nuf said.

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:31:50 +0000

Lucas, I don’t think the Hun wants special treatment. But having devoted so much editorial space to Fifteen probably felt that it was a bit churlish to ban Stephen. There is no reason to ban someone just because you disagree with them. I disagree with Stephen on many things. I also think it is a freedom of speech story in some ways. And it is symptomatic of business in general trying to censor the media all the time. There is really no parrallel to the racing story. I just happen to know somebody in production who said the features desk was annoyed. It’s as simple as that and nothing sinister. If you check out my story it details why they may fail at Fifteen.

Neil, meeting them was anything but boring. but you are right, what I ate was.

Reb, I did see it as The Oz is my W/end paper and I’m doing a few stories for Elizabeth. On the traffic, it all depends which sitemeter you believe but I find the jumps from print media arn’t that large – a few tens of people – compared to a link from a good site or blog. I traffic went down after Gourmet Traveller. Try and work that one out.

By: DrReb

DrReb — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:13:09 +0000

Just a snippet, Ed – Elizabeth Meryment referred to Tomato blog (including URL) in the Weekend Oz Travel and Leisure section (Food Detective, weekend just past) to read the drill about Downes’ ejection from 15. More traffic I reckon.